Music education and the art of performance in the German Baroque /

In considering the role of practical music in education this book attempts to define the art of performance in Germany during the Baroque period. The author examines the large number of surviving treatises and instruction manuals used in the Lutheran 'Latin' schools during the period 1530-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Butt, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994
Cambridge [England] ; New York : 1994
Cambridge ; New York : 1994
Series:Cambridge musical texts and monographs
Cambridge musical texts and monographs
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The establishment of Lutheran musical practice in the sixteenth century
  • 2. The role of practical music in education c. 1600-1750
  • 3. The contents, layout and style of instruction books
  • 4. The development of performance practice and the tools of expression and interpretation in the German Baroque
  • 5. Ornamentation and the relation between performer and composer
  • 6. The decline of the Lutheran cantorates during the eighteenth century
  • 1 The establishment of Lutheran musical practice in the sixteenth century
  • 2. The role of practical music in education c. 1600-1750
  • 3. The contents, layout and style of instruction books
  • 4. The development of performance practice and the tools of expression and interpretation in the German Baroque
  • 5. Ornamentation and the relation between performer and composer
  • 6. The decline of the Lutheran cantorates during the eighteenth century.