740-409 Early Music Theory and Practice

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740-409 Early Music Theory and Practice
Credit Points	12.5
Coordinator	Professor John Griffiths
Semester	Not Offered (view timetable)
Contact	One 2-hour seminar per week
Subject Description	A study of selected theoretical sources of Western music prior to 1750 including music philosophy, the inherited theory of Classical Antiquity, Medieval and Renaissance counterpoint, performance practices of the period, and the relation between the practical and theoretical intellectual life of the period.
Assessment	Regular practical assignments (60%); 2000-word assignment (40%).
Prescribed Texts	Mark Everist, Models of Musical Analysis: Music before 1600. Blackwells, Oxford, 1992.

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