MUS 329 - Medieval-Renaiss. His/Theory

Credits: 4
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 2
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: General

1. Analyze the earliest music

2. Discover the role of music in ancient Greek life and thought.

3. Discuss the role of music in ancient Rome

2. Examine the Christian Church in the first millennium

1. Explain the role of music in the early church

2. Distinguish the divisions in the church and dialects of chant

3. Trace the development of musical notation

4. Demonstrate comprehension through theoretical analysis

3.  Integrate Roman Liturgy and chant

1. Outline the parts of the Mass

2. Break down the characteristics of chant

3. Classify genres and forms of chant

4. Characterize Hildegaard of Bingen

4. Categorize song and dance music to 1300

1. Summarize European society, 800-1300

2. Compare and contrast Latin and Vernacular song

3. Describe minstrels, troubadours, and trouvères

4. Outline early musical forms

5. Give examples of secular music

5. Assess polyphony through the thirteenth century

1. Explain organum

2. Analyze aquitanian polyphony

3. Explain Notre Dame polyphony

4. Define motet

5. Name examples of English polyphony

6. Examine new musical developments in the fourteenth century

1. Generalize European society in the fourteenth century

2. Summarize the Ars Nova in France

3. Illustrate the innovations in writing and rhythm

4. Analyze the formes fixes.

5. Discuss the contributions of Guillaume de Machaut

6. Review fourteenth century music in performance

7. Integrate music and the Renaissance

1. Summarize elements of European society from 1400-1600

2. Paraphrase the role of the Renaissance on culture and art

3. Identify music in the Renaissance

4. Predict the legacy of the Renaissance

8. Evaluate the music from England and Burgundy in the fifteenth century

1. Describe English music

2. Describe music in the Burgundian Lands

3. Discuss the contributions of Guillaume du Fay

4. Examine the polyphonic Mass

9. Assess Franco-Flemish composers, 1450-1520

1. Outline political change and consolidation

2. Discuss Josquin Desprez

10. Interpret sacred music in the era of the reformation

1. Discuss the reformation

2. Compare and contrast music in the Lutheran church and the Catholic Church

3. Summarize music in Calvinist churches

4. Discuss church music in England

5. Discuss Palestrina and his role in musical evolution

6. Compare and contrast music in Spain, the new world, Germany, and Eastern Europe

7. Examine Jewish music

8. Predict the legacy of sixteenth century sacred music

11. Evaluate the madrigal and secular song in the sixteenth century

1. Compare and contrast the music of Spain, Italy, France, Germany, and England

2. Examine the Italian madrigal

3. Classify the madrigal and its impact

12. Point out the rise of instrumental music

1. List the instruments used during this era

2. List the types of instrumental music

3. Explain the role of dance music

4. Describe Venetian music

5. Predict the impact of instrumental music on future musical eras

13. Incorporate and refine music literacy through aural theory and applied theory

1. Demonstrate competency in sight-reading

2. Demonstrate competency in ear training by way of dictation

3. Construct composition(s) using period techniques.