| Music History Music History Sequence Music History 1 Music History 2 Music History 3 Music History 4 Music History 5 ________________________________________________________________________________ Music History Sequence The five semester music history sequence comprises a detailed study of Western music in an historical context from antiquity to the present day, using specific works as examples. In addition to the two hours of lectures, students attend a one-hour weekly Study Group led by a Music History Department Teaching Assistant. _______________________________________________________________________________ Music History 1: Ancient to Mid-Renaissance MU251 Fall Semester 201 Credits: 2 Prerequisite: none Instructor: Elizabeth Seitz eseitz@bostonconservatory.edu Instructor: Rebecca Marchand rmarchand@bostonconservatory.edu Course Objectives An understanding of the music of Ancient Greece, Medieval Europe, and the early to mid-Renaissance (antiquity to 1520) is provided through listening assignments, research, and familiarity with the following areas of study: • Ancient Music, Greek Music • Early Middle Ages; Liturgy, Chant, Modes, Mass, Office • The Vernacular Tradition • Early Polyphony; School of Notre Dame, Motets, English Polyphony • French and Italian Music in the 14th-Century, Machaut • Beginning of the Renaissance; Dunstable, Du Fay • Franco Flemish Composers 1450–1520; Ockeghem, Busnoys • Josquin des Prez Textbooks and CDs Required texts and CD's are available online from www.textbookx.com A HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC J. Peter Burkholder, Donald J. Grout and Claude V. Palisca W.W. Norton & Company; 8th Edition, 2009 ISBN: 9780393931259 MUSIC IN THE WESTERN WORLD: A HISTORY IN DOCUMENTS Piero Weiss and Richard Taruskin Schirmer; 2nd Edition, 2007 ISBN: 9780534585990 THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF WESTERN MUSIC, VOLUME 1: ANCIENT TO BAROQUE Donald J. Grout W.W. Norton & Company; 5th edition, 2005 ISBN: 9780393106084 |
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| ______________________________________________________________________ back to top Music History 2: Late Renaissance to Baroque MU 252 Spring Semester 2011 Credits: 2 Prerequisites: MU251 Music History 1 Instructor: Elizabeth Seitz eseitz@bostonconservatory.edu Instructor: Rebecca Marchand rmarchand@bostonconservatory.edu Course Objectives An understanding of the music of the late Renaissance to the Baroque (1520 to 1720) is provided through listening assignments, research, and familiarity with the following areas of study: • Reformation, Counter-Reformation, Palestrina • Madrigals and Popular Songs in 16th-Century Italy • English and French Madrigals and Popular Song of the 16th-Century • Instrumental Music of the 16th-Century • The "Second Practice", Late Madrigals, Monody, Early Opera • Chamber and Church Music of the Early 17th-Century • Italian and German Music of the 17th-Century • Concerto, Suite, Vivaldi, Corelli, Couperin • Handel; High Baroque Opera, Oratorio • Bach; Cantata, Fugue, Organ Works • The Path to the Classical Style Textbooks and CDs A HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC MUSIC IN THE WESTERN WORLD: A HISTORY IN DOCUMENTS THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF WESTERN MUSIC, VOLUME 1: ANCIENT TO BAROQUE NORTON RECORDED ANTHOLOGY OF WESTERN MUSIC: ANCIENT TO BAROQUE see MU251 Music History 1 |
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| ______________________________________________________________________ back to top Music History 3: Classic MU351 Fall Semester 2010 Credits: 2 Prerequisites: MU252 Music History 2 Instructor: Teresa Neff tneff@bostonconservatory.edu Course Objectives An understanding of the music of Classic and Early Romantic periods (1720 to 1827) is provided through listening assignments, research, and familiarity with the following areas of study: • Opera and Vocal Music at Mid-Century • Instrumental Music at Mid-Century • Haydn • Mozart • Beethoven Textbooks and CDs Required texts and CD's are available online from www.textbookx.com THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF WESTERN MUSIC, VOLUME 2: CLASSIC TO MODERN Claude V. Palisca (Editor) W.W. Norton & Company; 6th edition, 2009 ISBN: 9780393931273 NORTON RECORDED ANTHOLOGY OF WESTERN MUSIC: CLASSIC TO MODERN (6-CD set) MUSIC IN THE WESTERN WORLD: A HISTORY IN DOCUMENTS see MU251 Music History 1 |
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| ______________________________________________________________________ back to top Music History 4: Romantic MUSIC IN THE WESTERN WORLD: A HISTORY IN DOCUMENTS see MU251 Music History 1 |
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| ______________________________________________________________________ back to top Music History 5: Modern MU451 Fall Semester 2010 Credits: 2 Prerequisites: MU352 Music History 4 recommended Instructor: Elizabeth Seitz eseitz@bostonconservatory.edu Course Objectives An understanding of Contemporary and 20th-century music (1911 to the present day) is provided through listening assignments, research, and familiarity with the following areas of study: • Trends at the End of the Century, Impressionism, Other Nationals in Paris • The Russian Stravinsky • Schoenberg, Berg, Webern • Europe after WWI, Neoclassicism, The Soviets • After Webern; Europe after WWII • Americans in the 20th-century Textbooks Required texts are available online from www.textbookx.com TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSIC: A HISTORY OF MUSICAL STYLE IN MODERN EUROPE AND AMERICA Robert P. Morgan W.W. Norton & Company; 1st edition, 1991 ISBN: 9780393952728 ANTHOLOGY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSIC Robert P. Morgan W.W. Norton & Company; 1st edition, 1992 ISBN: 9780393952841 |
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