MUSIC HISTORY
I - READING ASSIGNMENTS
NOTE: The reading assignments as listed do not include ANY special
topics such as ‘PROLOGUES’, ‘PRIMARY EVIDENCE’ or ‘COMPOSER
PROFILES’.
You are, however, responsible for reading these Composer Profiles
at the time you encounter them in the text:
LEONIN & PEROTIN – These early composers will be encountered
in the text and under primary evidence on p 69.
PHILIPPE de VITRY –p 80
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT – p 86
GUILLAUME DU FAY – p 118
JOSQUIN DES PREZ – p 121
GIOVANNI PALESTRINA – p 178
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI – p 224
GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL – p 248
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH – p 264
ANTONIO VIVALDI – p 284
Other composers,
theorists etc., will be encountered in the text readings. You will
be informed when you are responsible for inormation regarding such
personages.
Daily Text Assignments
JANUARY
12 – Introductory remarks, the syllabus, explanations etc.
14 – p. 27 – stop at Elements of Plainchant on 35
16 – p. 27 – Elements of Plainchant – stop at the
Expansion of Plainchant top p. 47
19 – p.47 – stop at Secular Monophony p. 52 (Martin Luther King
Day, no class) – you
are still responsible for the reading.
21 – p.52 Secular Monophony – stop at bottom 59, end of chapter.
23 – p. 60 Polyphony to 1300 – stop at ‘Clausula’ p.
68
26 – p.68 ‘Clausula’ – stop at bottom 75, end of chapter.
28 – p.76 Music in the 14th century – stop at Secular Song, bottom
p. 83
30 – bottom p. 83 Secular Song – stop at p. 88 The Italian Trecento
FEBRUARY
2 – p. 88 – 94, end of chapter.
4 – 110 – The Emergence of Renaissance Style – p. 117, stop
at Texture: Pervading
Imitation.
6 – p. 117, Pervading Imitation – p.
125, end of chapter
9 – p. 126, The Genres of the Renaissance – p. 133, stop at The
Mass, Josquin
des Prez
11- p. 133, The Mass: Josquin & contemporaries – p. 142, stop at
Secular Vocal Music
13 – p. 142, Secular Vocal Music – p. 150, stop at Instrumental
Music
16 – p. 150, Instrumental Music – p.157, end of chapter.
18 – p. 158, Chapter Six, Music in the 16th Century – p. 171, stop
at Sacred
Vocal Music.
20 – p. 171 – Sacred Vocal Music – p. 177, stop at Instrumental
Music
23 – p. 177, Instrumental Music – p.190, end of chapter and Section.
25 – Review for Mid-Semester Exam
27 – MID SEMESTER EXAM (Written Part) (this exam may occur slightly earlier,
but you will be informed in good time should that be the case).
MARCH
2 – MID SEMESTER EXAM (Listening)
4 – p.204, The New Practice – p. 215, stop at Music in the Baroque
Era
6 – p.215, Music in the Baroque Era – p. 219, end of chapter.
9 – p. 220, Vocal Music 1600-1650 – p. 229, stop at Opera
11 – p.229, Opera – p. 237, end of chapter
13 – p. 238 – Vocal Music 1650 – 1750, - bottom of p. 244
16 – p. 248, read Composer Profile on Handel – p. 252, England & The
Masque etc.
18 – p.252, England & Masque etc., - p. 257, stop at Sacred Music
20 – p. 257, Sacred Music – p. 263 – listen to Bach’s
Cantata, 2nd movement
CD5/48
23 – Spring Break
25 – Spring Break
27 – Spring Break
30 - TBA, just come to class.
APRIL
1 p . 264-269
3 p. 270, Instrumental Music 1600-1750 – p. 276, Stop at Instrumental
Genres
6 p. 276, Instrumental Genres – p. 276 – stop at Concerto on 277
8 p. 277, Concerto – thru Vivaldi Profile, stop at Suite, 2nd paragraph
on
285
10 p. 285, Suite – p.289, stop at Keyboard Genres
13 p. 289, Keyboard Genres – p. 292, stop at Fugue
15. p 292, Fugue – p. 294, stop at Vocal-Based Genres
17 p. 294, Vocal Based-Genres – p. 296 stop at Dance Based Genres
20 p. p. 296, Dance Based Genres – p. 300, end of chapter and readings.
22 Review for final
24 Review for Final
27 – Last Day of Class – Review for Final
29 – Final Examinations Begin – check Final Schedule for Music
History 1 day and time for final.
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