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

Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

Fall 2007

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Course Schedule

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Readings in A History of Western Music (HWM) are listed by page number, readings in Weiss and Taruskin's Music in the Western World (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 HWM 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 (as assigned by your instructor) in the Study and Listening Guide (SLG) for HWM and NAWM or in the separate handout for WT. See the listening list for the meaning of + on listening items and for information on the Supplementary Recordings.

Timesaving tip: You may use the links below to access the assigned listening for each day and the study questions for each group of Weiss-Taruskin readings.

WEEK ONE

Mon 8/27
Introduction to the course: Why study music history?

Tue 8/28
Section: Introductions
Planning your research project
Ancient views of the uses and abuses of music: Plato, Aristotle, Quintilian

Wed 8/29
Music in the Ancient World: How can we learn about it? Thu 8/30
Section: Greek theory and practice [NAWM 1, 2]
The influence of Greek theory on Medieval music theory Fri 8/31
From the ancient world to the Middle Ages
What does this have to do with us?: Scales, modes, and notation

WEEK TWO

Mon 9/3
Chant I: The music of Gregorian chant Tue 9/4
ASSIGNMENT 1 DUE: PRELIMINARY TOPIC IDEA
Section: PEER GROUP REVIEW OF ASSIGNMENT 1
Reading and singing chant [NAWM 3, 4]

Wed 9/5
Chant II: Form and function
Liturgy, classes, forms, and types of chant: The Office, the Mass, and later developments in chant
Hildegard of Bingen

Thu 9/6
Section: How the history and function of a chant affect its form and style [NAWM 3-7; WT 6-7 and 12-14]

Fri 9/7
Medieval song and dance music


WEEK THREE

Mon 9/10
Early polyphony Tue 9/11
ASSIGNMENT 2 DUE: THREE BIBLIOGRAPHY ITEMS
Section: PEER GROUP REVIEW OF ASSIGNMENT 2
Secular monophonic music [NAWM 8-13; WT 15]
Early polyphony [NAWM 14-16; WT 16]

Wed 9/12
Notre Dame polyphony: Léonin and Pérotin

Thu 9/13
Section: Polyphony from its origins through Notre Dame [NAWM 14-20]
Review for First Examination

Fri 9/14
Thirteenth-century motet (Ars Antiqua) and English polyphony


WEEK FOUR

Mon 9/17
Summary and review

Tue 9/18
Section: Motets [NAWM 21-23]
Review for First Examination

Wed 9/19
FIRST EXAMINATION (held in Recital Hall)

Thu 9/20
Section: Field trip to the Lilly Library

Fri 9/21
PLAGIARISM TEST CONFIRMATION CERTIFICATE DUE
Ars Nova and isorhythm: Vitry's motets and Machaut's mass


WEEK FIVE

Mon 9/24
French secular songs: Machaut and the Ars Subtilior Tue 9/25
ASSIGNMENT 3 DUE: PROSPECTUS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Section: PEER GROUP REVIEW OF ASSIGNMENT 3
Ars Nova and Ars Subtilior [NAWM 24-27; SR 1; WT 18, 20]

Wed 9/26
The Italian Trecento

Thu 9/27
Section: Trecento [NAWM 28-30; WT 19]

Fri 9/28
The idea of the Renaissance


WEEK SIX

Mon 10/1
English music and Dunstable Tue 10/2
Section: What's different about English music? [NAWM 31-32; WT 21]

Wed 10/3
Burgundy, Du Fay, and Binchois

Thu 10/4
Section: Du Fay and Binchois [NAWM 33-36]

Fri 10/5
Netherlanders: From Ockeghem to the generation of Obrecht and Isaac


WEEK SEVEN

Mon 10/8
Josquin des Prez Tue 10/9
Mass and model [NAWM 36a-b, 33, 37, 40; SR 2]

Wed 10/10
The Reformation

Thu 10/11
Section: Music of the Reformation [NAWM 42-44]
Review for Second Examination

Fri 10/12
Catholic Church music from the Reformation through Palestrina


WEEK EIGHT

Mon 10/15
Catholic music in Spain, the New World, and Germany Tue 10/16
Section: Catholic sacred music [NAWM 45-47; WT 33, 36, 37]
Section: Review for Second Examination

Wed 10/17
SECOND EXAMINATION (held in Recital Hall)

Thu 10/18
Music in Renaissance society

Fri 10/19
Secular song: Spanish villancico and Italian madrigal


WEEK NINE

Mon 10/22
Secular song in France and England Tue 10/23
ASSIGNMENT 4 DUE: FIRST VERSION OF RESEARCH PAPER
Section: Words and music in madrigals and other songs [NAWM 48-58]

Wed 10/24
Renaissance instrumental music: Instruments and genres

Thu 10/25
Section: PEER GROUP REVIEW OF ASSIGNMENT 4
Instrumental music [NAWM 59-60]

Fri 10/26
The late sixteenth century: Byrd and the Venetian school


WEEK TEN

Mon 10/29
Guest lecturer: Prof. Halina Goldberg
From Renaissance to Baroque: The invention of opera

Tue 10/30
Section: The turn of the seventeenth century [NAWM 61-65]
Back to the Greeks: The intellectual underpinnings of early opera

Wed 10/31
Monteverdi

Thu 11/1
Section: Comparing Caccini, Peri, and Monteverdi [NAWM 64-67; SR 3]

Fri 11/2
Italian opera and vocal music through the middle seventeenth century


WEEK ELEVEN

Mon 11/5
Heinrich Schütz and musical rhetoric

Tue 11/6
Section: Italian vocal music [NAWM 68-71]
Schütz, musical rhetoric, the doctrine of figures, and the doctrine of affections [NAWM 72-73; WT 50, 51, 59]

Wed 11/7
Italian instrumental music in the early seventeenth century

Thu 11/8
Section: Italian instrumental music [NAWM 74-76]
Review for Third Examination

Fri 11/9
THIRD EXAMINATION (held in Recital Hall)


WEEK TWELVE

Mon 11/12
Lully and opera at the court of Louis XIV Tue 11/13
Section: Comparing French and Italian opera [NAWM 77]

Wed 11/14
French keyboard suite
Germany and Austria in the late seventeenth century

Thu 11/15
Section: Italian, French, and German styles [NAWM 68-71, 74-78, 84]

Fri 11/16
England, Spain, and the Americas


WEEK THIRTEEN

Mon 11/19
Italy in the late seventeenth century: Scarlatti and Corelli Tue 11/20
ASSIGNMENT 5 DUE: FINAL VERSION OF RESEARCH PAPER
Section: National traditions in the late seventeenth century [NAWM 77-84]

Wed 11/21 through Fri 11/23
Thanksgiving Recess


WEEK FOURTEEN

Mon 11/26
Vivaldi Tue 11/27
Section: Trio sonata and concerto [NAWM 83, 85; WT 61, 66]

Wed 11/28
The later French Baroque: Couperin and Rameau

Thu 11/29
Section: The eighteenth century in Italy and France [NAWM 85-87; WT 60-62, 66]

Fri 11/30
J. S. Bach: Instrumental music


WEEK FIFTEEN

Mon 12/3
Guest lecturer: Prof. Daniel R. Melamed
J. S. Bach: Vocal music Tue 12/4
Section: Bach compared to Buxtehude [NAWM 84, 88-89] and to Vivaldi [NAWM 85, 89; SR 4]

Wed 12/5
Handel

Thu 12/6
Section: Bach and Handel vocal music compared [NAWM 90-92]
Review for Final Examination

Fri 12/7
Summary and review

FINAL EXAMINATION: 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Wednesday, December 12 (in Recital Hall)

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