Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521433273)

In considering the role of practical music in education this book explores 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 schools during the period 1530-1800 and builds up a picture of the function and status of music in both school and church. This understanding of music as a functional art--musica practica--in turn gives us insight into contemporary performance of the sacred work of Praetorius, SchÜtz, Buxtehude or Bach.

Author: John Butt
ISBN-10: 0521433274
ISBN-13: 9780521433273
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/24/1994
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.44w x 0.85d