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Please note:
There is now a new listing for the Atlas Anthology listening assignments--click on the link for each lecture to go to the master list (which reproduces the Table of Contents from the anthology with links to Variations recordings), and make your selections from there.
Links to additional listening materials can be accessed directly from the syllabus, and are also listed on the anthology page.
1) "Renaissance"; Connections between England and the Continent: The Old Hall Manuscript, its repertoire and composers; The Contenance Angloise
2) Power and Dunstable; The Chanson in the 15th C.
Reading: Atlas, 44-54, 99-103; 185-202; 238-244; Strunk, 311-316
Listening: Atlas Anthology, Nos. 9, 11 (Frontlog CD 4871339), 13, 18a, 28 (Frontlog 4841894), 29, 49 (no recording), 50, 53
Reading: Atlas, 3-42 ; Strunk, 281-288
Listening: Atlas Anthology, Nos. 1, 4, 10
3) Sacred Music in the 15th C. The Motet (1)
Reading: Atlas, 86-99; 269-284
Listening: Atlas Anthology, Nos. 3, 4, 14, 15, 23, 37, 39, 40
4) Sacred Music in the 15th C. The Motet (2); The Mass: English composers
Reading: Atlas, 105-135; 286-291
Listening: Atlas Anthology, Nos. 16, 17
5) The Mass: Dufay and Ockeghem
Reading (Dufay): Atlas, 105-135; 286-291
Listening: Atlas Anthology, Nos. 18a-b, 19, 21
Reading (Ockeghem): Atlas, 145-169; 206-214
Listening: Atlas Anthology, 24, 25a-b, 41
6) The Mass: Obrecht
7) The Mass: Josquin
Reading: Atlas, 293-322; 264-268; 473-479
Listening: Atlas Anthology, 42
8) The Mass: Other composers at the turn of the century; Music printing
Reading: Atlas, 293-322; 264-268; 473-479
Listening: Atlas Anthology, 43, 44
9) Listening Test 1
10) Mass and other sacred forms to the middle of the 16th century; Willaert
Reading: Atlas, 325-334; 395-420; 450-456 ; Strunk, 436-462
Listening: Atlas Anthology, 61, 62, 81; Willaert, Lauda Jerusalem (Ps. 147)
11) Zarlino and Music Theory in The 16th Century
12) Review
13) The Reformation in Germany
Reading: Atlas, 510-549; Strunk, 361-368
Listening: Atlas Anthology, 78, 79
14) The Reformation in France; The Catholic [Counter-]Reformation
Reading: Atlas, 555-618; 654-659; Strunk, 368-376; Lockwood: The Pope Marcellus Mass (Norton Critical Score), vii-9; readings 2-6, 8-9; pp. 77-94; 99-130
Listening: Palestrina, Pope Marcellus Mass; Atlas Anthology, 87a-b
15) Midterm Exam
16) English sacred music and the Reformation: Thomas Tallis and William Byrd
Reading: Atlas, 528-549; 661-675; Strunk, 376-381
Listening: Atlas Anthology, 82, 95, 96, 97
17) Palestrina, Lasso, and Victoria
Reading: "Palestrina" "Victoria," and "Lasso," in New Grove
Listening: Atlas Anthology, 85a-b, 86; 83, 87a-b
18) The French chanson and Italian vernacular forms
Reading (Chanson): Atlas, 421-428; 457-470; Strunk, 338-343
Listening: Atlas Anthology, 47, 48, 50, 63, 64, 65, 69a, 88, 90
Reading (Italian vernacular forms): Atlas, 440-447; 646-652; Strunk, 316-329, 333-334
Listening: Atlas Anthology, 53, 99a; Norton Anthology of Western Music (NAWM), 35
19) The Italian madrigal
Reading: Atlas, 428-440, 634-646; Strunk, 332-334, 335-337, 352-357, 544-551
Listening: Atlas Anthology, 84, 92, 67, 91; NAWM, 37, 40, 53, 39
20) The madrigal in England; Instrumental music: solo and ensemble repertoires
Reading: Atlas, 215-237; 481-505; 685-697; 675-685; Strunk 346-351
Listening: Atlas Anthology, 60, 71, 73, 98, 99a-b, 100
Reading: Atlas, 215-237; 481-505; 675-697; Strunk, 617-621
Listening: Atlas Anthology, 58, 69b, 74, 77, 101; 70, 72, 75, 76, 102; NAWM, 45-46
21) Listening Test 2
22) The Florentine Camerata and theatrical music in the Renaissance, and the crisis of style
Reading: Strunk, 352-357; 462-467; 485-495; 544-551
Reading: Strunk, 462-467, 485-495, 526-544
Listening: NAWM, 51, 53
23) The crisis of style, continued
24) Final exam
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