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Choral Treatises and Singing Societies in the Romantic Age charts
the interrelated beginning and development of choral methods and
community choruses beginning in the early nineteenth century. Using
more than one-hundred musical examples, illustrations, tables, and
photographs to document this phenomenon, author David Friddle
writes persuasively about this unusual tandem expansion. Beginning
in 1781, with the establishment of the first secular singing group
in Germany, Friddle shows how as more and more choral ensembles
were founded throughout Germany, then Europe, Scandinavia, and
North America, the need for singing treatises quickly became
apparent. Music pedagogues Hans Georg Nageli, Michael Traugott
Pfeiffer, and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi invented the genre that
became modern choral methods; initially these books were
combinations of music fundamental primers, with frequent inclusion
of choral works intended for performance. Eventually authors
branched out into choral conducting textbooks, detailed
instructions on how to found such a community-based organization,
and eventually classroom music instruction. The author argues that
one of the greatest legacies of this movement was the introduction
of vocal music education into public schools, which led to greater
musical literacy as well as the proliferation of volunteer choirs.
All modern choral professionals can find the roots their career
during this century.
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