Music History 1: Monteverdi to Mozart

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2016:

120 hours

Musical literacy, to a standard equivalent to AMEB grade 4 or higher.

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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An overview of music, culture and society in Western Europe from the 17 th to the late 18 th centuries. Through an examination of works by Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Handel, J. S. Bach, W. A. Mozart, and J. Haydn, among others, students will explore the development of musical styles during this period in their cultural, social and political contexts.

In-class discussions, quizzes, and exercises will support students as they explore current scholarship on authenticity and performance practice, music and politics, gender and sexuality, and music and meaning.

Students will engage in an individual project on a work relevant to them, which they will explore from performative, historical and analytical perspectives. The three tutorial assignments will support them through the research process culminating in their essay.

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• Interpret 17 th and 18 th century music in its cultural context
• Incorporate period-specific performance practices
• Discriminate both aurally and conceptually between the main music genres and styles from the 17 th and 18 th centuries
• Undertake basic scholarly work using music-specific bibliographic tools
• Discuss music coherently using an appropriate technical vocabulary
• Engage meaningfully with contemporary scholarship on the period examined
• Work constructively yet rigorously with peers

• Tutorial assignment 1 (400 words), due in week 4 (10%);
• Tutorial assignment 2 (400 words), due in week 6 (10%);
• Tutorial assignment 3 (400 words), due in week 8 (10%);
• Three in-class quizes, weeks 3,7, and 12 (10% each, 30% total);
• A 2000 word essay, due in week 10 (30%);
• Class participation and attendance, throughout semester (10%).

A reader and a music anthology will be available from the University bookstore at the beginning of semester.

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

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.

• Understand music from the Baroque to the end of the Classical period in its cultural context
• Incorporate period-specific performance practices
• Discriminate both aurally and conceptually between the main music genres and styles from the Baroque to the end of the Classical period
• Undertake basic scholarly work using music-specific bibliographic tools
• Discuss music coherently using an appropriate technical vocabulary
• Engage meaningfully with contemporary scholarship on the periods examined
• Work constructively yet rigorously with peers