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 740-372 Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Music

Availability

Offered in alternate years. Not offered in 1998.

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Professor J Griffiths

Prerequisites

BMus Year 2

Semester

1

Contact

One 2-hour seminar per week

Subject Description

Students will gain an extensive knowledge of selected works of the period and their place in society, a working knowledge of the musicological scholarship, theoretical and musical sources for the topics studied, and a capacity to evaluate modern performances of works of this period. Topics covered include studies of selected areas of European music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance which will investigate a cross-section of repertory, manuscript and printed sources and their notation, theoretical writings, performance practices, social history and current issues in scholarship and performance.

Assessment

A 3-hour examination (50%); one written assignment of approximately 3,000 words.

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