Music in the Culture of the Renaissance

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2015:

170 hours

For breadth students: permission of the coordinator.

N/A

Musical literacy is assumed

N/A

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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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.

• Understand the position of music in the culture of the Renaissance
• Understand the uses to which music was put in the Renaissance
• Develop an awareness of the principal generic types used by composers through the Renaissance
• Understand the contexts in which music was used in the Renaissance
• Develop an awareness of the performance practice of music in the Renaissance
• Critically engage with relevant literature in the field

• CD liner note of 1000 words - Week 6 (40%)
• Research essay of 4000 words - End of Semester (60%)

A comprehensive course pack will be provided.

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