Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools
- Author: Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Syracuse University, New York
- Date Published: June 2022
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108796507
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Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools is the first book to systematically analyze the role that the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation. Although the material record is riddled with gaps, Amanda Eubanks Winkler sheds light on the subject through an innovative methodology that combines rigorous archival research with phenomenological and performance studies approaches. She organizes her study around a series of performance-based questions that demonstrate how the schoolroom intersected with the church, the court, the domicile, the concert room, and the professional theater, which allows her to provide fresh perspectives on well-known canonical operas performed by children, as well as lesser-known works. Eubanks Winkler also interrogates the notion that performance is ephemeral, as she considers how scores and playtexts serve as a conduit between past and present, and demonstrates the ways in which pedagogical performance is passed down through embodied praxis.
Read more- Provides a fresh perspective on lesser-known and popular canonical works performed at English schools, including Blow's Venus and Adonis and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
- Develops an innovative methodology to understand school-based performance that combines rigorous archival research with phenomenological and performance studies approaches
- Deepens our understanding of early modern child performers, the schoolroom as a site of performance, and embodied pedagogical traditions
Reviews & endorsements
‘… an impressive range of primary documents, most previously unknown or unstudied, from schools throughout England, applying scholarly methodologies from musicology, theatre history, and performance studies.’ Linda Phyllis Austern, Music & Letters
See more reviews‘a significant and seminal book, not only for the contribution it makes to the current scholarly picture, but for the future work that it will surely inspire.’ Simon Smith, Early Theatre Book Review
‘… combines performance studies and phenomenological approaches with a robust engagement with archival sources to explore questions around gender and class in pedagogical performance. Understanding performance as a ‘node through which various cultural energies flowed-spiritual, pedagogical, and recreational,’ Eubanks Winkler analyzes a wide range of sources including personal letters, scores, and playbills to illuminate the social context of early modern musical education. In addition to being a valuable resource for scholars of theater music history, this book will appeal to a broader readership because of its attention to the agency and embodied experience of schoolchildren.’ Dori Coblentz, Renaissance Quarterly
‘Using present-day experiences - as a participant, as a listener and viewer, and as a parent of school-age children - the author is able to nourish and inform the work as a historian, fleshing out the bones of the narrative tentatively reconstructed from textual sources. This book thus offers a skilful model of how to engage with past culture, despite the inevitable challenges posed by lacunae in available sources. The work will be of enormous value to scholars working across a wide spectrum of early modern cultural discourses, including gender identity, social hierarchy, the development of the professions, religious and confessional practices, etc.’ Michael Gale, Journal of Historical Research in Music Education
‘Amanda Eubanks Winkler’s study of pedagogical performance in and relating to early modern English schools is both fascinating and methodologically groundbreaking. On the first page she mentions a wholesome experience of her own, a production of Singing in the Rain she saw through the ‘rosy lens of parental devotion.’ It stands in contrast to the sixteenth-century image displayed on the book’s cover, which features a boy getting thrashed as others sing together and attend, somewhat distractedly, to their lessons. Neither is misleading about this book’s contents. It is a testament to the wide scope of this study that Eubanks Winkler tackles both sides of the equation, paying careful attention to issues surrounding student accomplishments and pedagogical failures.’ Jeremy L. Smith, NABMSA Reviews
‘Eubanks Winkler makes us comfortable with historical gaps and temporal tension. She shows us that it is possible to reconceive and reevaluate some of the most familiar early modern works, and she demonstrates the richness of previously undiscovered sources. Most significantly, perhaps, Eubanks Winkler presents us with a methodology to reanimate the past through the lens of our own experiences.’ Sarah Williams, Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music
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- Date Published: June 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108796507
- length: 260 pages
- dimensions: 249 x 169 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.46kg
- contains: 17 b/w illus. 12 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction. Minding the gaps
1. Situating pedagogical performance
2. Performing piety
3. Performing prestige
4. Performing accomplishment
5. Performing vice
6. Performing the professional
7. Performing the past: the specter of the schoolroom.
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