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Education, Pedagogical Strategies, Music, and the Catholic Reform Education, Pedagogical Strategies, Music, and the Catholic Reform
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Bacilly’s Preludes as Pedagogical Tools Bacilly’s Preludes as Pedagogical Tools
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Meter, Rhythm, and Syllabic Quantity Meter, Rhythm, and Syllabic Quantity
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Vocal Technique Vocal Technique
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Learning to Sing, Step by Step, through Imitation Learning to Sing, Step by Step, through Imitation
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Common Melodic Phrases and Gestures between Preludes and Airs Common Melodic Phrases and Gestures between Preludes and Airs
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Conclusion: Music and Lyrics Conclusion: Music and Lyrics
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6 Bertrand de Bacilly’s Airs spirituels and the Musical Education of Girls
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Published:February 2025
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Later in the seventeenth century, several female teaching orders founded educational institutions for young girls. In his Airs spirituels (1672, 1677, 1688), Bacilly states his spiritual airs should be the only songs used to teach girls how to sing since lascivious secular songs corrupt young minds. Chapter 6 demonstrates that pedagogical practices espoused by the most influential seventeenth-century pedagogues are revealed not only by what Bacilly says, but also through compositional strategies revealed through an analysis of his unaccompanied vocal preludes, which include few to no measure lines and are meant to be performed as improvisations. Just as students learning how to read break down sentences into letters, syllables, words, and phrases, so too a prelude can be broken down into its components, each phrase offering technical challenges that, once memorized and conquered, can be applied to singing the spiritual airs that follow each prelude. Most important, through memorization and repetition of music and texts, girls would internalize the sacred lyrics and become pious young women.
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