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This course examines European music from the early Middle Ages until the end of the Renaissance.

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English [CC]

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Description

. It includes a chronological survey and intensive study of three topics: chant and its development, music in Italy 1340-1420, and music in Elizabethan England. Instruction focuses on methods and pitfalls in studying music of the distant past. Students’ papers, problem sets, and presentations explore lives, genres, and works in depth. Works are studied in facsimile of original notation, and from original manuscripts at MIT, where possible.

Course content

    • Introduction to Early Music and to Chant Unlimited
    • Antiquity to Chant Unlimited
    • The Purpose and Types of Chant Unlimited
    • Diversity and Development in Chant Unlimited
    • Secular Monophony in the Middle Ages Unlimited
    • The Birth of Polyphony Unlimited
    • Polyphony (and some monophony) in the 13th and early 14th century Unlimited
    • Fauvel, Vitry, Machaut and Music in France before 1370 Unlimited
    • Introduction to Trecento Music Unlimited
    • Trecento Music and Musicology Unlimited
    • Simplicity and Complexity Unlimited
    • The End of the Trecento and The Rise of European Music Unlimited
    • Music in the Mid-Fifteenth Century 1440–1480 Unlimited
    • Vocal Music: Josquin, his Contemporaries, and his Followers Unlimited
    • 16th century vocal and instrumental music Unlimited
    • Tutor England / The Elizabethan Madrigal Unlimited
    • English Music in Church and School Unlimited
    • Instrumental Music and Lute Song (Doug Freundlich, Guest Lecturer) Unlimited
    • Music in London Society Unlimited
    • Madrigal and Drama in Late Sixteenth-Century Italy; Music in Venice Unlimited
    • The Rise of Opera and a New Style Unlimited

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