Bach at School: Toccatas 3
Mansfield College Chapel Mansfield Road, Oxford, United KingdomJ S Bach taught at the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where music was not just a practical exercise but part of the Liberal Arts canon, consisting of the ‘trivium’ (grammar, logic, rhetoric) and the ‘quadrivium’ (astronomy, arithmetic, geometry, and music). Music in this curriculum was an extension of calculating mathematical proportions but also built on skills-training […]