This unit introduces students to the study of Western art music in its musical, historical and cultural settings. It establishes basic concepts and perspectives for musicological enquiry and proceeds to a detailed study of the development of the music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods—the years from c.1450 to 1750—a period that witnessed the flowering of vocal and choral musical genres such as the polyphonic mass, motet, anthem and madrigal and the early development of opera, oratorio, cantata as well as independent instrumental forms such as sonata, concerto and solo keyboard music, and a variety of influential dance forms. This rich period of musical development culminated in the... -- Course Website
Instructor: Associate Professor David Symons
Prerequisites: MUSC1310 Communication Skills in Music or MUSC1350 Popular Music in Global Perspective
