Summary The contributors to this project - musicologists, historians, philosophers, art historians, and historians of philosophy - have been invited to participate in a multidisciplinary dialogue with respect to the position music has occupied in instructional and educational systems from medieval to modern times. Their essays are indicative of diverse disciplinary perspectives towards the subject and feature an array of innovative interpretations. On the whole, they neither claim the supremacy of music in the context of the various educational systems, nor do they focus on the artistic musical production that emerged as a consequence of the various educational approaches. Rather, this volume sketches the circulation and dissemination of ideas, images, and people, all related to the different paths and pedagogical practices that have characterised the teaching and learning of music in different locales and across history. It ultimately underscores the strategic role that music occupied within educational systems of all levels vis- -vis other disciplines and, thus, it contributes to a better understanding of the role music education played in the formation of an educated citizenry - from children to adults, from ?practicus? to ?theoricus?, from men of arms to religious men, from the literate to politicians - bearing in mind the Isidorian definition that ?musica ad omnia se extendit? (Etymologiae III, 17, 1). TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction. Docere and discere: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Music in Schools - PAOLA DESS At School for Governance: Paolino da Venezia and Music - F. ALBERTO GALLO I. STUDIUM La musica nel curriculum delle artes delle universit italiane nel Quattrocento: fra teoria e prassi- PAOLO ROSSO Transmission and Adaption of Musical Knowledge in 16th-Century German Universities: Professors, Students, and their Books - INGA MAI GROOTE The Musical Training of University Students in the 16th Century and the libri amicorum - PAOLA DESS II. MAGISTRI, ALUMNI ET SCHOLARES Music between scientia and ars in Giacomo Zabarella - LETTERIO MAURO Musica tra le pareti domestiche a Padova nei secoli XV e XVI: dagli ensemble di docenti universitari ai singoli strumenti di studenti e commercianti - ELDA MARTELLOZZO FORIN Ascolti comparati tra l'Alexandreis di Quilichino e la Trecentesca Istoria di Alessandro Magno di Domenico Scolari - DONATELLA RESTANI III. SCHOLA Music Teaching in Montagnana: Organization, Methods, and Repertories - ALESSANDRA IGNESTI Canto piano e strategie pedagogiche in Adrien Bourdoise - XAVIER BISARO ? Don Paolo Galliero e la scuola di grammatica e musica di Tribano (Padova) - DILVA PRINCIVALLI IV. WORKSHOPS AND ACADEMIES ?Si dilett in giovanezza della scherma e di sonare il liuto?. Painters-Musicians in Giorgio Vasari's Lives - ALESSANDRA PATTANARO ?La musica diletta al cavallo?. Musical Paradigms in Equestrian Academies of the Renaissance - GAVINA CHERCHI Illustrations Indices General Index Index of Places Index of Manuscripts