Music M401
History and Literature of Music I:
Antiquity to 1750

Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

Fall 2007


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Listening List, Part I:
Ancient and Medieval Music


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Ancient and Medieval | Renaissance | Baroque


Table of Contents


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Music in the Ancient World


Gregorian chant: The Mass and the Office

For more about chant, see the Gregorian Chant page.


Later developments in chant


Medieval song and dance music


Early polyphony


Notre Dame polyphony: Léonin and Pérotin


Thirteenth-century motet (Ars Antiqua) and English polyphony


Ars Nova and isorhythm: Vitry motets and Machaut's mass


French secular songs: Machaut and the Ars Subtilior


The Italian Trecento



About the Listening List | What You Are Required to Know

Ancient and Medieval | Renaissance | Baroque


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