Murray et al., Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Jan Herlinger Louisiana State University; University of Alabama

Abstract

The essays collected in Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance show a wide diversity of approaches to musical pedagogy, which they illuminate in new and often suggestive ways; they make a significant contribution to the history of music pedagogy and will amply repay careful study. Collectively, the essays address five questions. What pedagogical methods were used? What did students learn? Who were the teachers, and who the students? Where and when was music learned? Why was music learned? Readers led by the book’s title to assume that the Middle Ages and the Renaissance will receive equal treatment may be disappointed: only three of the book's seventeen essays are devoted to medieval topics. “Early Modern” would have served the later period more appropriately than “Renaissance,” as publications addressed include those as late as Mace (1676) and Playford (1683). A comprehensive bibliography would have been a service to readers.

Author Biography

Jan Herlinger, Louisiana State University; University of Alabama

Jan Herlinger is Haymon Professor of Music, emeritus, at Louisiana State University, and holds faculty affiliation at the University of Alabama. He has edited and translated treatises of Marchetto of Padua and Prosdocimo de’ Beldomandi; has published essays in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music Theory Spectrum, Acta Musicologica, Il saggiatore musicale, Philomusica online, and several scholarly collections; and is a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The Cambridge History of Music Theory, and Music as Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages.

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Published

2011-02-01

Issue

Vol 1 No 2: (Spring 2011) The Textbook Issue

Section

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