Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools

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.

ISBN:	9781108796507
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Imprint:	Cambridge University Press
Published date:	23 Jun 2022
DEWEY:	792.09420903
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	260
Weight:	456g
Height:	169mm
Width:	244mm
Spine width:	18mm

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