Court, Church and Urban Music 1450-1600

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2009:

Through individual studies of selected musical centres and repertories, students will explore the nature, the role, and the functions of music in European society during the Renaissance. Using diverse materials, students will engage in a directed exploration of selected repertory, manuscript and printed sources, early notation, theoretical writings, performance practices, social history and current issues in scholarship and performance. Students will gain an enhanced experience of the musical life of the period, and develop critical skills that will assist them to evaluate recent musicological scholarship and modern performances.

Two project reports due during the semester (60%); an essay of 2500 words due at the end of semester (40%).

Prescribed Texts:

• The Renaissance: From the 1470s to the End of the 16th Century, (I Fenlon), Man and Music, 2, Macmillan, 1989

This subject potentially can be taken as a breadth subject component for the following courses:

• Bachelor of Arts
• Bachelor of Biomedicine
• Bachelor of Commerce
• Bachelor of Environments
• Bachelor of Science
• Bachelor of Engineering

You should visit learn more about breadth subjects and read the breadth requirements for your degree, and should discuss your choice with your student adviser, before deciding on your subjects.

On completion of this subject students should have developed:

• a capacity for independent critical thought

• high-level cognitive skills

• an openness to new ideas

• knowledge, skills and practices which provide a basis for independent critical inquiry and research-based writing