740-149 Baroque and Classical Music

For non BMus and combined degree students, permission of the coordinator.

This subject encourages students to develop a technical, artistic and cultural appreciation of Western music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Aimed at the critical evaluation of music in its cultural context, students will develop skills in written and oral communication, bibliography, and the analysis of scores and performances.

On completion of the subject, students should have augmented knowledge of baroque and classical music, their capacity to research music of the period, evaluate modern historical writings critically and to use this knowledge to enlighten their musical experience.

a) Written projects to a total of 3200 words (40%); b) mid-semester test (10%); end-of-semester 2-hour examination (50%).

• J.P. Burkholder, ed., A History of Western Music. 7th ed. Norton, 2006.
• J.P. Burkholder and C.V Palisca, Norton Anthology of Western Music. 2 vol., 5th ed., Norton, 2006.