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Author Weiss, Susan Forscher.
Title "The Singing Hand."
Work Type Article in collection
Language English
Publication Date 2000
Keywords hands as memory aids, memorization of music, Guidonian hand, "musical hand", pedagogical techniques, memorization techniques
Citation Weiss, Susan Forscher. "The Singing Hand." In Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, edited by Claire Richter Sherman. Seattle: University of Washington Press for the Trout Gallery of Dickinson College and the Folger Shakespeare Library, 2000.
Identity theorist|singer|beginner|advanced|expert|
Other Identity teaching of basic music skills: reading music, memorization, intervals, basic theory
Materials notebooks|guides|images|
Flourished medieval|1450s|1460s|1470s|1480s|1490s|1500s|1510s|1520s|1530s|1540s|1550s|1560s|1570s|1580s|1590s|
Region france|germany|italy|
Illustrations lessonbook|
Record Number 84



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