Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Music (Volume 3 page 241)
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Elective Music subject.
Availability: Offered in alternate years. Available in 1996.
Credit points: 10.0
Coordinator: Associate Professor J Griffiths.
Contact: A 2-hour seminar a week for one semester in third or fourth year.
Objectives:
At the end of this subject students should be familiar with a representative sample of renaissance repertory for solo instruments, with a critical awareness of style, compositional principles and performance practice; have acquired a knowledge of sources, editions and pertinent scholarly literature; have gained an understanding of the instruments, performance techniques, construction and notation for which the repertory was conceived.
Content:
A study of instrumental music to about 1620 principally for lute and keyboard instruments, but also for other wind and string instruments with a significant extant literature. -The course examines sources and styles from Italy, France, Germany, Spain, England and the Netherlands and investigates theoretical sources that document improvisation, embellishment and other performance practices of the period.
Assessment:
A 3-hour end-of-semester examination (50 per cent) and a written assignment of approximately 3,000 words (50 per cent) due at the tenth week of semester.
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Music (Volume 3 page 241)
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