Nicolaus Listenius’s Musica (1537) proved to be one of the two most successful music textbooks in the Lutheran Latin Schools of the sixteenth century, issued in at least forty-six editions and surviving in use into the next century. Yet, a casual inspection of the book today does not readily yield to modern expectations of a successful pedagogical text; indeed, there has never been any thorough analysis of the book to determine its merits and defects and so the causes of its popularity. The present analysis demonstrates that the Musica utilizes a variety of influential practices—medieval, humanist, and Lutheran—combined with an innovative new concept in music pedagogy in order to account for its success. It also reveals certain weaknesses and flaws in the book but argues that these were mostly overcome by the intended practice of guidance from the instructor in actual classroom use. The book’s method presents a difficulty for understanding today because of our modern assumptions about proper pedagogy, but an analysis of its method is beneficial for making more conscious those assumptions and advances in current practice.

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Nicolaus Listenius 的 Musica (1537) 和音乐教学法的发展

Nicolaus Listenius 的 Musica（1537 年）被证明是 16 世纪路德拉丁学派中最成功的两部音乐教科书之一，至少发行了 46 个版本，并一直沿用至下个世纪。然而，今天对这本书的随意检查并不容易满足现代对成功教学文本的期望。事实上，从来没有人对这本书进行过彻底的分析，以确定它的优点和缺陷，以及它受欢迎的原因。目前的分析表明，Musica 利用各种有影响力的实践——中世纪的、人文主义的和路德教的——结合音乐教学法中的创新新概念来解释它的成功。它还揭示了书中的某些弱点和缺陷，但认为这些缺陷大多是通过教师在实际课堂使用中的预期指导实践来克服的。由于我们对适当教学法的现代假设，本书的方法在今天难以理解，但对其方法的分析有助于在当前实践中更加清醒地意识到这些假设和进步。