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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Music : Music

740-384 Music in the Renaissance

Availability:

Offered in alternate years. Not offered in 1997.

Credit Points:

When taken from Music, Faculty of Music:
10.0
When taken from Music, Faculty of Education:
11.1

Coordinator:

Assoc. Professor John Griffiths

Prerequisite/s:

740-110 Music in Society B.

Contact:

A 2-hour lecture and one tutorial per week for one semester.

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should have acquired an extensive knowledge of repertory pertaining to the areas selected in the course for detailed study and the place of music in renaissance society; possess a working knowledge of manuscript and printed sources of the period, their notation, theoretical treatises, iconographical materials, and musicological scholarship relating to topics of study; demonstrate a capacity to evaluate modern performances of music of the period.

Content:

A study of aspects of European music and society from circa 1425 - 1600, focusing on the major genres of sacred and secular music from the period.

Assessment:

A 3-hour examination at the end of the subject (50%), and a written assignment of approximately 3000 words, due at the end of the subject (50%).

Prescribed Texts:

  • Brown H M, Music in the Renaissance, 1976 Prentice-Hall.
  • Fenlon I (ed), The Renaissance: From the 1470's to the End of the Sixteenth Century, 1989 Macmillan.
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