Johann Sebastian Bach: Music of the Baroque and the Enlightenment

FAIN: ES-50504-13

Moravian University (Bethlehem, PA 18018-6614)
Hilde Marga Binford (Project Director: March 2013 to March 2015)

A four-week institute for twenty-five school teachers, to be held in Germany, on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, within the context of the Baroque and Enlightenment eras.

Moravian College’s Summer Institute for Teachers 2014 is a four-week institute for classroom teachers on Johann Sebastian Bach: Music of the Baroque and Enlightenment to take place in Germany. The goal of the institute is to provide classroom teachers with the 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 Eisenach, Leipzig, and Potsdam, participants will be immersed in the very places where Bach lived, and will have access to the finest cultural and scholarly resources on Bach. Internationally known scholars will present lectures and workshops that describe the relationship of Bach’s life and music to the world around him, spanning the late Baroque era to the Age of Enlightenment.