21M.220 Early Music, Spring 2007
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Author(s)
Cuthbert, Michael Scott
Alternative Title
Early Music
Date Issued
June 2007
Abstract
This class covers the history of Western music from antiquity until approximately 1680, about 2000 years worth of music. Rather than cover each topic at the same level of depth, we will focus on four topics in particular and glue them together with a broad overview of other topics. The four topics chosen for this term are (1) chant structure, performance, and development; (2) 14th century music of Italy and France; (3) Elizabethan London; and (4) Venice in the Baroque era. The class will also introduce many of the tools we use in studying music history such as manuscript study, original notation work (the musical equivalent of foreign language study), and historical performance practice.
Subjects
medieval
church music
chant
Gregorian chant
religious music
baroque music
mode
liturgy
monody
polyphony
Trecento
motet
Hildegard
Italian
French
Catholic
Mass
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Music and Theater Arts Section
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. History Section
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies
MIT Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies
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