The Land Without Music: Music Education in England 1800-1860 and Its Continental Antecedents

ISBN-13: 9780863141195 / Angielski / Twarda / 1965 / 228 str.

Bernarr Rainbow

Opis

First published 1967, long out of print, and now reprinted in full by kind permission of Novello and company, this book fills a gap that has long existed. It is the outcome of serious scholarly research, fully documented. More than a book about musical education, it is also a social history of education; yet always the general, social and educational references are related to the main theme - singing from symbols. Various methods are described and the author shows how these interact, ending with that -agent of synthesis- John Curwen. Everyone who teaches music, or is training to teach music, should read it. Salutary reading for anyone who thinks he or she has a new idea.