MUSI 6367 Music History and Literature ? Medieval and Renaissance
Topics to be reviewed are: Romanesque and Gothic, Gregorian Chant, organum, the transition from monophonic music to polyphony; The Notre Dame school, including Leonin, and Perotin, Machaut, the first non-anonymous composers. Adam d la Halle. Renaissance: the earliest ?modern-sounding? music, with imperfect consonance becoming accepted. Sacred choral genres, the motet and the mass, and madrigal. Consideration of Troubadours/trouveres, minnesingers. Instrumental genres such as the canzona and the recercar and the phenomenal growth in the polyphony and the music of Josquin, Janequin, Palestrina, and Lassus.
Prerequisite
Graduate standing in music required.
Offered
As scheduled