Course Schedule

Course Schedule

Readings in Grout-Palisca (GP) are listed by page number, readings in Weiss-Taruskin (WT) by item number, and pieces in the Norton Anthology of Western Music (NAWM) and on the Supplementary Recordings (SR) by item number. Before you come to class, you are expected to read the assigned readings in GP and WT, listen to (and/or play or sing through) the assigned pieces in NAWM and SR, read the discussion of each work in NAWM, and answer the related study questions in the Study and Listening Guide (SLG) for GP and NAWM.

Fri 6/17

Introduction to the course

Music in Ancient Greece

Section: Introductions; Planning your Review Essay

reading: SLG vii-xi; and the course syllabus

Mon 6/20
How to find writings on your Research Topic

Influences of Greek Theory and Culture on the Middle Ages

Section: Ancient views of the uses and abuses of music: Plato, Aristotle, Quintilian

reading: GP 1-30 (note: in the section on “The Greek Musical System” in GP 8-15, only the material related to questions 6-11 in SLG pp. 6-7 is required); WT 2-5, 10, 11

Tue 6/21
The music of Gregorian chant

reading: GP 31-38, 50-57; WT 6, 7, 12, 14

listening: NAWM 3, 4

Wed 6/22
Assignment 1 Due: Preliminary Topic Ideas

Form and function in Gregorian chant
Liturgy, classes, forms, and types of chant: the Office and the Mass

Later developments in chant

Section:

Reading and singing chant

How the history and function of a chant affect its form and style

reading: GP 38-50; WT 13

listening: NAWM 5, 6, 7

Thu 6/23

Secular monophony and instrumental music

reading: GP 57-66; WT 15

listening: NAWM 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Fri 6/24

Early polyphony

Notre Dame polyphony: Léonin and Pérotin

Section: Secular monophony and instrumental music

reading: GP 70-84; WT 16

listening: NAWM 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

Supplemental Recording 1: Gauterius de Castello Rainardi, Cunctipotens genitor, florid organum (Kyrie trope from Codex Calixtinus, mid-12th century),Sequentia, Early Music Archive ADR9747, track 14

M401 Film Series: The Virgin in the Ice [Sweeney Hall, 8 p.m.]

Mon 6/27

Assignment 2 Due: Topic Proposal and Bibliography
Thirteenth-century motet (Ars Antiqua)

Section: Polyphony from its origins through Notre Dame

reading: GP 84-93

listening: NAWM 15d, 15f, 15g, 18;

Supplemental Recording 2 Petrus de Cruce, Aucun ont trouvé/Lonc tans/Annuntiantes, motet (ca. 1290) Musica Mensurata, Early Music Archive ADU7537, track 11

Tue 6/28
Ars Nova

reading: GP 96-101; WT 18

listening: NAWM 19

Wed 6/29
Machaut

Guest AI Lecture: Bethany Kissell

Section: "Old art" and "new art": Comparing Ars Antiqua and Ars Nova

reading: GP 101-105; WT 20

listening: NAWM 20, 21

Thu 6/30
Trecento and Ars Subtilior: Landini, Cordier, and Ciconia

Review for Exam 1

reading: GP 106-120; WT 19

listening: NAWM 22, 23, 24;

Supplemental Recording 3: Johannes Ciconia, Sus une fontayne, virelai (ca. 1390), Ensemble Project Ars Nova, CD .C5712 D.1-2, track 18

Fri 7/1
EXAM 1 [in Sweeney Hall]

section: Lilly Library excursion

Mon 7/4

Independence Day, no classes

Tue 7/5
The idea of the Renaissance, music in Renaissance society

English music and Dunstable

reading: GP 123-29, 144-51 WT 21, 25, 34, 41

listening: NAWM 25, 26

Wed 7/6

Assignment 3 Due: Annotated Bibliography (2 items)

Burgundy and Dufay

Section: Renaissance society and music

reading: GP 129-41; WT 22

listening: NAWM 27, 28, 29a-b, 30

Thu 7/7
Netherlanders: From Ockeghem to Josquin, Obrecht, and Isaac

reading: GP 154-63, 170-72

listening: NAWM 31a-b, 32a-b, 33, 34

Fri 7/8

16th-century Printers and the Creation of New Musical Genres

Guest Lecture: Prof. Massimo Ossi

Section: What's different about English music?

reading: GP 154-72

M401 Film Series: Death for Five Voices [Sweeney Hall, 8 p.m.]

Mon 7/11
Josquin des Prez

Section: Mass and model

reading: GP 164-69; WT 26

Supplemental Recording 4: Josquin des Prez, Missa Pange lingua, Mass (ca. 1520) (Plainchant hymn, Pange lingua gloriosa)

Kyrie

Gloria

Credo

Sanctus and Benedictus

Agnus Dei

The Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Phillips, Early Music Archives BAF2440, tracks 1-6

Tue 7/12
The generation of 1520-1550

reading: GP 177-81

Wed 7/13

The Italian Madrigal

Guest AI Lecture: Sherri Winks

Section: Review of the first four Renaissance generations

reading: GP 181-94; WT 38-39

listening: NAWM 35-40

Thu 7/14

Madrigal and related forms in other nations

reading: GP 194-205

listening: NAWM 41-44;

Supplemental Recording 5: Juan del Encina, Oy comamos y bebamos, villancico (late 15th century), Hespèrion XX, directed by Jordi Savall, Early Music Archive ACT6508, track 16

Fri 7/15

Assignment 4 Due: Annotated Bibliography (4 items) and Rough Draft (2-5 pp.)

Sixteenth-century instrumental music

Guest Lecture: Jir Shin Boey

Section: Words and music in the madrigal and chanson

reading: GP 205-19

listening: NAWM 45-46

M401 Film Series: Elizabeth [Sweeney Hall, 8 p.m.]

Mon 7/18

The Reformation

Guest AI Lecture: Phillip Kurasz

Section: Instrumental music

reading: GP 224-33; WT 27, 28, 29

Tue 7/19
The Counter-Reformation: Palestrina, Victoria, and Byrd

reading: GP 234-44, 246-48; WT 33, 36, 37

listening: NAWM 47a-b, 48a-b, 50

Wed 7/20
The late sixteenth century: Lasso, The Venetian school

Section: Reformation and Counter-Reformation

Review for Exam 2

reading: GP 244-46, 285-89

listening: NAWM 49, 58

Thu 7/21
EXAM 2 [in Sweeney Hall]

Fri 7/22

Early Music in the Americas: From New Spain to New England

Guest Lecture: Luiz Lopes

Section: Music in the Americas; Review Essay

Supplemental Recording 9: Manuel de Zumaya, Celebren, publiquen, polychoral villancico (ca. 1740s), Chanticleer and Chanticleer Sinfonia, cond. by Joseph Jennings, CAX2920, track 22

Supplemental Recording 10: Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco, La purpura de la rosa, opera (1701), excerpt: "Y bien, ¿qué es lo que adviertes?", Judith Malafronte, Venus; Ellen Hargis, Adonis; and the Harp Consort, directed by Andrew Lawrence-King, CAG3076, tracks 24-26

Mon 7/25

From Renaissance to Baroque: The Birth of Opera

Section: Back to the Greeks: The intellectual underpinnings of early opera

reading: GP 251-70; WT 1, 43, 44, 46, 47

listening: NAWM 51, 52

Tue 7/26

Assignment 5 Due: Annotated Bib. (6 items) and Complete Draft

Monteverdi

reading: GP 270-85; WT 45

listening: NAWM 53-55

Supplemental Recording 6: Claudio Monteverdi, L'Orfeo, opera (1607)

Toccata and Prologue, Act I, Act II Listen to online copy

Wed 7/27

Italian opera and vocal music in the early seventeenth century

Section: Comparing Peri and Monteverdi

reading: GP 273-78, 282-85, 287-90

listening: NAWM 56, 57, 59-61

Thu 7/28

Schütz and musical rhetoric

Sacred vocal music in Germany during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries

reading: GP 290-94, 327-41; WT 49, 50, 58

listening: NAWM 62

Fri 7/29

Lully at the court of Louis XIV

Section: Italian vocal music

reading: GP 315-20; WT 53

listening: NAWM 67, 68

M401 Film Series: Tous les matins du monde [Sweeney Hall, 8 p.m.]

Mon 8/1

Opera seria, tragedie lyrique, and opera buffa into the eighteenth century; opera in England; secular vocal music in the middle Baroque

Section: French style [NAWM 67, 68; also look ahead to 63]

reading: GP 309-314, 320-27, 405-408, 410-412; WT 61, 62, 63

listening: NAWM 66, 69, 70, 78, 83

Tue 8/2

Seventeenth-century keyboard and lute music

reading: GP 294-304, 345-51

listening: NAWM 63, 64, 65, 71, 72

Supplemental Recording 7: Girolamo Frescobaldi, Canzona dopo l'epistola [Canzona after the Epistle] from Mass for Sundays, in Fiori musicali (published 1635), Rinaldo Alessandrini, organ, Early Music Archive ACK1602, disc 1, track 19

Wed 8/3

The later French Baroque: Jacquet de la Guerre, Couperin, and Rameau

Section: Italian, French, and English opera and vocal music

reading: GP 345-56, 380-86; WT 59

listening: NAWM 73

Thu 8/4 *Class meets in Ford Hall*

Ensemble music in the Baroque

reading: GP 356-69

listening: NAWM 74, 75

Fri 8/5

Assignment 6 Due: Review Essay

Vivaldi