Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Informationen zum Autor Russell E. Murray, Jr. is Professor of Music and Associate Chair at the University of Delaware.Susan Forscher Weiss is Chair of Musicology, The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.Cynthia J. Cyrus is Associate Dean and Professor of Musicology at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University. Klappentext This volume provides an expansive view of the beginnings of music pedagogy, and shows how the act of learning was embedded in the broader context of the early Western art music tradition. Zusammenfassung What were the methods and educational philosophies of music teachers in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance? What did students study? What were the motivations of teacher and student? This title addresses these topics and others to understand the identities of music teachers and students from 650 to 1650 in Western Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Reading and Writing the Pedagogy of the Past / Russell E. Murray, Jr., Susan Forscher Weiss, and Cynthia J. Cyrus Perspective 1 1. Some Introductory Remarks on Musical Pedagogy / James Haar Part 1Medieval Pedagogy 2. Guido d'Arezzo, Ut queant laxis, and Musical Understanding / Dolores Pesce 3. Some Thoughts on Music Pedagogy in the Carolingian Era / Charles M. Atkinson 4. Medieval Musical Education as Seen through Sources Outside the Realm of Music Theory / Susan Boynton Part 2Renaissance Places of Learning 5. "Sang Schwylls" and "Music Schools": Music Education in Scotland, 1560¿1650 / Gordon Munro 6. A Proper Musical Education for Antwerp's Women / Kristine K. Forney 7. Juan Bermudo, Self-instruction, and the Amateur Instrumentalist / John Griffiths Perspective 2 8. The Humanist and the Commonplace Book: Education in Practice / Anthony Grafton Part 3Renaissance Materials and Contexts 9. Musical Commonplaces in the Renaissance / Peter Schubert 10. Music Education and the Conduct of Life in Early Modern England: A Review of the Sources / Pamela F. Starr 11. Vandals, Students, or Scholars? Handwritten Clues in Renaissance Music Textbooks / Susan Forscher Weiss Part 4Music Education in the Convent 12. The Educational Practices of Benedictine Nuns: A Salzburg Abbey Case Study / Cynthia J. Cyrus 13. Nun Musicians as Teachers and Students in Early Modern Spain / Colleen Baade Part 5The Teacher 14. Isaac the Teacher: Pedagogy and Literacy in Florence, ca. 1488 / Blake Wilson 15. Zacconi as Teacher: A Pedagogical Style in Words and Deeds / Russell E. Murray, Jr. 16. The Good Maestro: Pietro Cerone on the Pedagogical Relationship / Gary Towne Perspective 3 17. You Can Tell a Book by Its Cover: Reflections on Format in English Music "Theory" / Jessie Ann Owens Contributors Index ...

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reading and Writing the Pedagogy of the Past / Russell E. Murray, Jr., Susan Forscher Weiss, and Cynthia J. Cyrus
Perspective 1
1. Some Introductory Remarks on Musical Pedagogy / James Haar
Part 1Medieval Pedagogy
2. Guido d'Arezzo, Ut queant laxis, and Musical Understanding / Dolores Pesce
3. Some Thoughts on Music Pedagogy in the Carolingian Era / Charles M. Atkinson
4. Medieval Musical Education as Seen through Sources Outside the Realm of Music Theory / Susan Boynton
Part 2Renaissance Places of Learning
5. "Sang Schwylls" and "Music Schools": Music Education in Scotland, 1560-1650 / Gordon Munro
6. A Proper Musical Education for Antwerp's Women / Kristine K. Forney
7. Juan Bermudo, Self-instruction, and the Amateur Instrumentalist / John Griffiths
Perspective 2
8. The Humanist and the Commonplace Book: Education in Practice / Anthony Grafton
Part 3Renaissance Materials and Contexts
9. Musical Commonplaces in the Renaissance / Peter Schubert
10. Music Education and the Conduct of Life in Early Modern England: A Review of the Sources / Pamela F. Starr
11. Vandals, Students, or Scholars? Handwritten Clues in Renaissance Music Textbooks / Susan Forscher Weiss
Part 4Music Education in the Convent
12. The Educational Practices of Benedictine Nuns: A Salzburg Abbey Case Study / Cynthia J. Cyrus
13. Nun Musicians as Teachers and Students in Early Modern Spain / Colleen Baade
Part 5The Teacher
14. Isaac the Teacher: Pedagogy and Literacy in Florence, ca. 1488 / Blake Wilson
15. Zacconi as Teacher: A Pedagogical Style in Words and Deeds / Russell E. Murray, Jr.
16. The Good Maestro: Pietro Cerone on the Pedagogical Relationship / Gary Towne
Perspective 3
17. You Can Tell a Book by Its Cover: Reflections on Format in English Music "Theory" / Jessie Ann Owens
Contributors
Index

About the author

Russell E. Murray, Jr. is Professor of Music and Associate Chair at the University of Delaware.
Susan Forscher Weiss is Chair of Musicology, The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.
Cynthia J. Cyrus is Associate Dean and Professor of Musicology at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University.

Product details

• Authors: Cynthia J. Cyrus, Russell E. Murray, Susan Forscher Weiss
• Assisted by: Cynthia J. Cyrus (Editor), Russell E. Murray (Editor), Susan Forscher Weiss (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.08.2010
• EAN: 9780253354860
• ISBN: 978-0-253-35486-0
• No. of pages: 426
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory