Johann Sebastian Bach and the Music of the Reformation Churches

FAIN: ES-250628-16

Moravian University (Bethlehem, PA 18018-6614)
Hilde Marga Binford (Project Director: February 2016 to December 2019)

A four-week institute for twenty-five schoolteachers on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and of the Reformation churches, within the context of the Baroque and Enlightenment eras.

Moravian College’s proposed 2017 four-week Summer Institute, Johann Sebastian Bach and the Music of the Reformation Churches, is for K-12 teachers, taking place in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The goal of the institute is to provide teachers with methods and tools to integrate the music of Bach and the world of the Enlightenment into elementary, secondary and high school classrooms. The institute will demonstrate how to use Bach as a vehicle for teaching the social, cultural, intellectual and religious changes taking place in Europe from the 17th to 18th centuries. By situating the Institute in Bethlehem, participants will be immersed in the original Moravian settlement (1741) and have access to nearby historical sites and communities of other Pietist and Anabaptist sects known to Bach. Internationally-known scholars will present lectures and workshops describing the relationship of Bach’s life and music to the world around him, spanning the late Baroque era to the Age of Enlightenment.