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Weeks 1-3 (Feb. 23, Mar. 2, 9): Introduction; main concepts. Music in Antiquity; The Christian Church in the First Millenium; Roman Liturgy and Chant; Music Theory; Origins of polyphony; organum and motet. 450-1450. HWM, Chapters 1 - 3 (pp. 4-66), Chapter 5 (84-103).
Weeks 4-5 (Mar. 16, 23): Song and Dance Music to 1300. Polyphony, (continued). New Developments in the Fourteenth Century
HWM, Chapters 4 - 6 (pp. 67-83, 103-10, 111-40).
Weeks 6-7 (Mar. 30, Apr. 6): Music and the Renaissance. England and Burgundy in the Fifteenth Century.
HWM, Chapters 7 – 8 (pp. 143-87.
Weeks 8-9 (Apr. 13, 20): Franco-Flemish Composers, 1450-1520. HWM, Chapter 9. Sacred Music in the Era of the Reformation. HWM, Chapter 10. (pp. 188-240)
Week 10 (Apr. 27): Madrigal and Secular Song in the Sixteenth Century.
HWM, Chapter 11.
Week 11 (May 4) New Styles in the Seventeenth Century. The Invention of Opera. HWM Chapters 13 and 14
Week 12 (11): Music for Chamber and Church in the Early Seventeenth Century. France, England, Spain, and the New World in the Seventeenth Century. HWM, Chapters 15 and 16.
Week 13 (May 18) ltaly and Germany in the Late Seventeenth Century. The Early Eighteenth Century in Italy and France. HWM, Chapters 17 and 18.
Week 14 (May 25): German Composers in the Late Baroque. HWM, Chapter 19. |