MUSI 3000 - Studies in Pre-Modern Music (to 1500)

Introduction to the variety of repertories and music cultures known to have thrived in pre-modern Europe, and the ways such music has been assimilated into 20th-century American ideas about ‘music history.’ Specific topics announced in advance, such as: the music of 12th-century France; music in monastic life, 800 to 1500; music and mystical vision, the cosmology of Hildegard von Bingen; music, cultural exchange, and power, Burgundy and Italy in the 15th century. Prerequisite: Ability to read music. MUSI 3310 highly recommended.

Credits: 3