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Elective Music subject.
Availability: Offered in alternate years. Available in 1996.
Credit points: 10.0
Coordinator: Associate Professor J Griffiths.
Prerequisite: Either-740-383 Music in Medieval Europe or 740-384 Music in the Renaissance.
Contact: A 2-hour seminar a week for one semester in third or fourth year.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to demonstrate skill in the transcription from obsolete notations to modern notation in line with current standards of scholarly practice; be familiar with the criteria and principles of modern editorial practice; have acquired basic skills in computerised notation programs for the production of scholarly editions.
Content:
A study of the major styles of notation used in Western music from the middle ages to the early 17th century. Seminars will be based around the production of transcriptions of works from major manuscripts and printed sources of the period.
Assessment:
A minimum of ten transcriptions realised during the semester.
Prescribed texts:
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Music (Volume 3 page 239)
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