Gibelius, Otto

OTTO GIBELIUSGIBELIUS, OTTOOTTO GIBELIUS [* 1612-† 1682] German youths learned singing in seventeenth-century church schools through a pedagogical method in which basic precepts were established and later drilled. Otto Gibelius, in his popular manuals of instruction, sought to reorient the process by using practice as the basis for the gradual emergence of concepts. His successful method continued beyond mere Syllabication (using ut through la): clear procedures for the incorporation of rhythm…