MYE 532E - Topical Issues in Western Music
Course Objectives
1. Introduce students to key contextual and interpretive issues in music history research through readings and discussions
2. To create an understanding that questions the relationship between conceptual parameters and musical repertoires
3. Developing students' ideas about how current ideas on selected topics are formed
Course Description
Emphasises cultural history and the philosophical background to Renaissance Humanism as an approach to the music of the period. Traditional and revisionist ideas on the origins of the Renaissance will be explored, along with key concepts such as secularism, eloquence, and rhetoric. The relationship of music theory to practice will form a major focus, as also that of text to music, studied through key genres of poetry and drama and in terms of the main thinkers of the time. Problems in musical periodisation will be addressed, and also the relation of the Italian musical Renaissance to that of northern Europe.
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Course Coordinator
Paul Alıster Whıtehead
Course Language
English
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