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Week, Date Topic
Readings
1 04.10 Introductory
2 11.10 Humanism and Music overview
Claude Palisca,“An Italian Renaissance in Music?” Ch. 1 of Humanism in Italian Renaissance Musical Thought (Yale U. P., 1985), 1-22.
Gary Tomlinson, “Renaissance Humanism and Music,” in James Haar, ed., European Music, 1520-1640 (Boydell, 2006), 1-19.
3 18.10 Fixed forms
James Hankins, "Music and Humanism in Italy," Ch. 13 of The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-century Music, ed. Anna Maria Busse Berger and Jesse Rodin (Cambridge U. P., 2015).
Atlas, Renaissance Music (Norton, 1998), pp. 36-39 (and accompanying Anthology No. 8).
4 25.10 Ciconia. Humanism of early 14th century (cont.)
Blake Wilson, “Canterino and improvvisatore: Oral Poetry and Performance,” Ch. 16 of The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-century Music, ed. Anna Maria Busse Berger and Jesse Rodin (Cambridge U. P., 2015), pp. 292-310.
Nino Pirrota, "Music and Cultural Tendencies in Fifteenth-century Italy,"JAMS 19(2) (1966), 127-61.pdf attached
Atlas, pp. 200-14. Anthology 33
5 01.11 Academies. Neo-Platonism and Magic.
Atlas, Renaissance Music, pp. 20813
Ian McNeely, “The Renaissance Academies between Science and the Humanities,” Configurations 17(3) (2009).
*Charles G. Nauert, Humanism and the Culture of the Renaissance (Cambridge U. P., 1995), Ch. 2 “Humanism and Italian Society,” pp. 52-94.
6 08.11 Faces of Humanism around 1500.
Atlas, Renaissance Music, pp. 249-77; Anthology nos. 37-40.
Strohm, The Rise of European Music, pp. 608-44
A.B. Skei : ‘ Dulces exuviae: Renaissance Settings of Dido’s Last Words’, MR, xxxvii (1976), 77–91 (unavailable online?)
W. Oliver Strunk, “Vergil in Music,” MQ 16(4) (1930), pp. 482-497
Richard Sherr, “Illibata Dei Virgo Nutrix' and Josquin's Roman Style,” JAMS 41(3) (1988), 434-64
7 15.11 Theory: Tonality, Modality
Palisca, Humanism in Italian Renaissance Musical Thought, Ch. 11, “Greek Modality and Western Tonality,” pp. 280-332
8 22.11 Northern Humanism and Musica poetica; Burmeister, Lassus. Reformation.
Atlas, Renaissance Music, pp. 624-33, Anthology no. 89
Perkins, Music in the Age of the Renaissance, pp. 961-68
Palisca, Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Ch. 11 “Music and Rhetoric,” pp. 203-31
9 29.11 The Madrigal
Atlas, Renaissance Music, pp. 428-442
Dean Mace
10 06.12 Madrigal (continued)
Atlas, Renaissance Music, pp. 634-46. Anthology nos. 91, 92
Gary Tomlinson, Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance (University of California Press, 1990), Ch. 1, “Oppositions in Late-Renaissance Thought: Three Case Studies,” pp. 3-32
11 13.12 Affections, Imitation
Atlas, Renaissance Music, pp. 621-24; Anthology no. 88
Palisca, Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Ch. 10, “Theories of the Affections and Imitation,” pp 179-202
12 20.12 Monody, dramatic music
Palisca, Humanism in Italian Renaissance Musical Thought, pp. 408-33
13 03.01
14 10.01 Conclusions. Presentations. |