Topics in Medieval music

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    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This course will focus on the beginnings of music in the Middle Ages through to the early Renaissance through a carefully selected sequence of musical examples, illuminated manuscripts and composer biographies. We will also look at medieval music notation and trace the main stages of its development.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

- recognise key genres of medieval music
- feel confident identifying key musical instruments of the middle ages
- appreciate the range of different performance possibilities for selected pieces of music
- understand the key challenges facing performers of medieval music.

You will need to bring a pen/pencil and a folder to keep your notes and handouts organised. You may also wish to purchase some of the music books or recordings discussed in class, links to these materials will be available online after each session.

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Course programme

- What is music history and where does it begin?
- singing in medieval monastic culture: liturgy & plainchant
- secular music of the troubadours and trouvères
- the beginnings of polyphony: organum and motets
- the instruments of the middle ages
- case studies: the Roman de Fauvel, Guillaume de Machaut, Dunstable and Dufay.

Sessions will comprise combinations of lecture, question-and-answer, quizzes, guided listening, video and manuscript study. You may wish to do extra reading outside class and there will be an informal ‘open book’ quiz at the end of the course. There will also be Spotify and Youtube playlists for this course if you wish to do extra listening. This course has a Google classroom site for students to join in order to access online materials. For further details please follow our Google classroom instructions [external website].

Additional information

City Lit offers a wide range of music appreciation classes, as well as related courses in history, art history and philosophy. Next term at the same time Edward will be teaching a course called Handel: the late oratorios (MD816) To find out more about music appreciation classes and to read some of our recommendations, please see the blog post Music history and appreciation: the 2018/19 programme which lists our full programme of classes listed by term, and by day of the week. You may then click on each title to read the full course outline. General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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