Court, Church and Urban Music 1450-1600

This subject is not offered in 2014.

120 hours

For breadth students: permission of the coordinator.

N/A

Musical literacy is assumed

N/A

It is University policy to take all reasonable steps to minimise the impact of disability upon academic study, and reasonable adjustments will be made to enhance a student's participation in the University's programs. Students who feel their disability will impact on meeting the requirements of this subject are encouraged to discuss this matter with a Faculty Student Adviser and the Disability Liaison Unit.

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.

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

Alan Atlas, Renaissance music: music in Western Europe, 1400-1600. New York: Norton, 1998.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

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