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- Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools
- Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Preface
- Editorial Method
- Abbreviations and RISM Sigla
- Introduction
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - Performing Piety
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 May 2020
- Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools
- Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Preface
- Editorial Method
- Abbreviations and RISM Sigla
- Introduction
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter maps how students moved, sometimes literally and sometimes figuratively, between church and schoolroom, and the purposes religious music-making served in these contexts. It focuses on students’ performance of psalms, especially how particular performance practices (processing two-by-two) and the selection of psalms with moralizing texts inculcated potentially unruly children into the Protestant faith through bodily discipline and the act of communal singing. The chapter concludes with an analysis of the “Easter Psalms” sung at the Spital Sermon by children from the school at Christ’s Hospital as a multisensory event. Religious speech, music, and the display of the children’s bodies in their characteristic blue uniforms worked together to solicit charitable donations for the school and to demonstrate their piety, a performance practice that continues to this day. However, the potential for disruption, for something to go awry, for the script to be overturned is ever present, then and now.
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- Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools , pp. 39 - 64Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020