Readings in A History of Western Music (HWM) are listed by page number, readings in Weiss and Taruskin's Music in the Western World (WT) by item number, and pieces in the Norton Anthology of Western Music (NAWM) and on the Supplementary Recordings (SR) by item number. Before you come to class, you are expected to read the assigned readings in HWM and WT, listen to (and/or play or sing through) the assigned pieces in NAWM and SR 4, and read the discussion of each work in NAWM. See the listening list for the meaning of + on listening items and for information on the Supplementary Recordings.
Timesaving tip: You may use the links below to access the assigned listening for each day.
Mon 8/20
Introduction to the course: Why study music history?
Tue 8/21
Section: Introductions
Planning your research project
Ancient views of the uses and abuses of music: Plato, Aristotle, Quintilian
Wed 8/22
Music in the ancient world: How can we learn about it?
Thu 8/23
Section: Greek theory and practice [NAWM 1, 2]
The influence of Greek theory on Medieval music theory
Fri 8/24
From the ancient world to the Middle Ages
What does this have to do with us?: Scales, modes, memory, and notation
Mon 8/27
Chant I: Genre and style in Gregorian chant
Tue 8/28
ASSIGNMENT 1 DUE: PRELIMINARY
TOPIC IDEA
Section: PEER REVIEW OF ASSIGNMENT 1
Reading and singing chant [NAWM 3, 4; WT 12]
Odo, Guido, and notation
Wed 8/29
Chant II: The Office, the Mass, and later developments in chant
Thu 8/30
Section: How the history and function of a chant affect its form and
style [NAWM 3-7]
Fri 8/31
Medieval song and dance music
Mon 9/3
Labor Day Break
Tue 9/4
Section: Library and online resources for your research project
Secular monophonic music [NAWM 8-13]
Wed 9/5
Early polyphony
Thu 9/6
ASSIGNMENT 2 DUE:
THREE BIBLIOGRAPHY ITEMS
Section: PEER REVIEW OF ASSIGNMENT 2
Early polyphony [NAWM 14-16]
Fri 9/7
Notre Dame polyphony
Mon 9/10
Thirteenth-century motet (Ars Antiqua) and English polyphony
Tue 9/11
Section: Notre Dame polyphony and motets [NAWM 17-23]
Review for First Examination
Wed 9/12
Summary and review
Thu 9/13
Section: Review for First Examination
Fri 9/14
FIRST EXAMINATION (held in Recital Hall)
Mon 9/17
Ars Nova and isorhythm: Vitry's motets and Machaut's mass
Tue 9/18
PLAGIARISM TEST CONFIRMATION CERTIFICATE DUE
Section: Ars Nova and isorhythm [NAWM 24-25; SR 1]
Wed 9/19
French secular songs: Machaut and the Ars Subtilior
Thu 9/20
Section: Ars Nova and Ars Subtilior songs [NAWM 26-28; WT 20]
Fri 9/21
The Italian Trecento
Mon 9/24
The idea of the Renaissance
Tue 9/25
ASSIGNMENT 3 DUE:
PROSPECTUS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Section: PEER GROUP REVIEW OF ASSIGNMENT 3
Trecento [NAWM 29-31]
Wed 9/26
English music and Dunstable
Thu 9/27
Section: What's different about English music? [NAWM 32-33]
Fri 9/28
Burgundy, Du Fay, and Binchois
Mon 10/1
Netherlanders: From Ockeghem and Busnoys to the generation of Obrecht and Isaac
Tue 10/2
Section: Three generations of Renaissance composers [NAWM 34-40]
Review for Second Examination
Wed 10/3
Josquin des Prez
Thu 10/4
Section: Josquin [NAWM 41-43; SR 2; WT 26]
Review for Second Examination
Fri 10/5
SECOND EXAMINATION (held in Recital Hall)
Mon 10/8
The Reformation
Tue 10/9
Section: Music of the Reformation [NAWM 44-46]
Wed 10/10
Catholic Church music from the Reformation through Palestrina
Thu 10/11
Section: Catholic music through Palestrina [NAWM 47]
Fri 10/12
Fall Break
Mon 10/15
Catholic music in Spain, the New World, and Germany
Tue 10/16
Section: Catholic sacred music [NAWM 48-49]
Wed 10/17
Secular song: Spanish villancico and Italian madrigal
Thu 10/18
Section: Madrigals and villancicos [NAWM 50-55]
Words and music
Singing and dancing as social graces
Fri 10/19
Secular song in France and England
Mon 10/22
Renaissance instrumental music: Instruments and genres
The Venetian school
Tue 10/23
ASSIGNMENT 4 DUE:
FIRST VERSION OF RESEARCH PAPER
Section: Words and music in French and English songs [NAWM 56-61, 73]
Renaissance instrumental music [NAWM 62-65]
Wed 10/24
From Renaissance to Baroque: The invention of opera
Thu 10/25
Section: Back to the Greeks: The intellectual underpinnings of early
opera
Caccini, Peri, and Monteverdi [NAWM 66-68]
Review for Third Examination
Fri 10/26
Monteverdi
Mon 10/29
Italian opera through the middle seventeenth century
Tue 10/30
Section: Peri, Monteverdi, and Cesti operas [NAWM 68-71; SR 3; WT 45, 49]
Review for Third Examination
Wed 10/31
THIRD EXAMINATION (held in Recital Hall)
Thu 11/1
Section: PEER GROUP REVIEW OF ASSIGNMENT 4
Fri 11/2
Vocal chamber and sacred music in Italy
Mon 11/5
Heinrich Schütz and musical rhetoric
Tue 11/6
Section: Italian vocal chamber and sacred music [NAWM 72, 74-76]
Schütz, musical rhetoric, the doctrine of figures, and
the doctrine of affections [NAWM 77-78; WT 50, 51, 59]
Wed 11/7
Italian instrumental music in the early seventeenth century
Thu 11/8
Section: Italian instrumental music [NAWM 79-81]
Fri 11/9
Lully and opera at the court of Louis XIV
Mon 11/12
French lute dance and keyboard suite
Germany and Austria in the late seventeenth century
Tue 11/13
Section: Comparing French, Italian, and German styles [NAWM 82-85 and 92,
and review NAWM 72, 74-81; WT 54]
Wed 11/14
England, Spain, and the Americas
Thu 11/15
Section: Comparing English, Spanish, and New World music to Italian, French,
and German music [NAWM 86-88]
The rise of the public concert
Fri 11/16
Italy in the late seventeenth century: Scarlatti and Corelli
Mon 11/26
Vivaldi
Tue 11/27
ASSIGNMENT 5 DUE: FINAL
VERSION OF RESEARCH PAPER
Section: Scarlatti, Corelli, Vivaldi: Italian cantata,
opera, trio sonata and concerto [NAWM 89-91, 93; WT 61]
Wed 11/28
The later French Baroque: Couperin and Rameau
Thu 11/29
Section: The eighteenth century in Italy and France [NAWM 90, 93-95]
Rameau's Traité, Farinelli's career
Fri 11/30
J. S. Bach: Instrumental music
Mon 12/3
J. S. Bach: Vocal music
Tue 12/4
Section: Comparing Bach to Buxtehude [NAWM 92, 96-97; WT 71] and to Vivaldi
[NAWM 93, 96; SR 4]
C. P. E. Bach remembers his father
Review for Final Examination
Wed 12/5
Handel
Thu 12/6
Section: Comparing Bach and Handel vocal music [NAWM 98-100]
Review for Final Examination
Fri 12/7
Summary and review
FINAL EXAMINATION: 12:30-2:30 PM, Wednesday, December 12
(in Recital Hall)
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