MUS 410

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Period Studies in Musicology

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Credit: 3 hours.

Intensive study of the music of a specific historical period.

3 undergraduate hours. 3 graduate hours. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours. Prerequisite: MUS 313 and MUS 314, junior standing in music or consent of instructor.

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MUS 410 class schedule data for fall 2020
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	58088	Online	B	2:00PM -3:20PM	MW	n.a.	Eagen-Jones, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/20-12/09/20 Section Info: Topic: "MUSIC and POETRY." Humanism began as a literary movement in late-medieval Italy. Early works like Dante’s Divine Comedy, Petrarch’s sonnets, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales explore and articulate humanist themes: secularism, naturalism, anti-theism, and the general valuing of the human individual. Subscribing to a belief in free thought, humanists reexamined scriptures and works of classical antiquity and formulated their own ideas about how these may be read. Musical settings of humanist poetry as well as translated biblical and Greco-Roman poetry and prose give rise to the notion of musica poetica—music that “persuades” the emotions. Through this class, students will explore that text-sensitive, “persuasive” element of late-medieval and renaissance choral literature. Beginning with the motets of the Roman de Fauvel, the scope of the course will span the 14th to 16th centuries and will include European and European colonial works in Latin, English, Flemish, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Hebrew.[1] This is an analysis- and performance-oriented course: students may expect to engage with recordings and scores and to sight sing at every class meeting. A paleography component will provide students with a basic literacy of 14th to 16th century notation types and will acquaint students with notation-specific issues. This course focuses on madrigals and motets—two idioms most-codified as “persuasive.” Following a brief introduction to humanist literature, curricula, and poetics, the course is organized chronologically and around collections. Students will learn to recognize and be able to discuss issues of genre, form, phrasing, rhythm, texture, and sonority. Students will also learn how to make informed decisions about issues of text setting. As a final unit, students will explore renaissance “riddle” motets, where in order to perform, artists are expected to interpret both musical and verbal clues. Pending enrollments, the class will culminate in a group recital. [1] Translations will be provided for all non-English literature. Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the Music department.