Professor Carmelo Comberiati
Music Department
Email: comberiatic@mville.edu
Voice Mail: (914) 323-5252
Music Building, Room 114
Fall, 2007 

MuH 2011: Survey of Western Music I

 

Course Requirements Grading
1. Attendance at all sessions
2. Reading and Listening Assignments
3. 2 Mid-Term Exams
4. Three Writing Assignments of increasing length
5. Attendance at Required concerts for Music Majors
6. Final Exam (during Exam Week)		 1. Participation & Attendance 5%
2. Concert Attendance 5%
3. Mid-Term Exams 40%
4. Writing and Final assignment 30%
5. Final Exam 20%

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Course Materials and Schedule:

Required Texts:

Craig Wright and Bryan Sims. Music in Western Civilization, Volume I - Antiquity through the Baroque, (Thomson-Schirmer, 2006);  and

Timothy J. Roden, Craig Wright and Bryan Sims, ed. Anthology for Music in Western Civilization, Volume I - Antiquity through the Baroque,  (Thomson-Schirmer, 2006).

Required Recordings:

Craig Wright and Bryan Sims, ed. Audio CD for Wright/Simms' Music in Western Civilization. Volume I - Antiquity through the Baroque,  (Thomson-Schirmer, 2006).

Writing Assignments:  There will be three written assignments for the course: one from each era of music history.

 

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DUE OCTOBER 1: Assignment I: Middle Ages (5%)-- Choose one work from the anthology and describe how the purpose of  the work determines its form and its relationship to the historical environment.

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DUE NOVEMBER 1: Assignment II: Renaissance (10%)-- .Choose two works from our syllabus from different countries or traditions and compare the techniques used to accomplish the composers' purposes.

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DUE DECEMBER 6: Assignment III: Baroque (15%)-- Choose a major work by either Bach or Handel and compare it to two works of a similar genre: one from the Middle Ages, one from the Renaissance.

 

Useful Online Bibliography Reference: Towson University has an online guide in the style of Irvine's Writing about Music, which can be accessed here.

 

Additional Course Materials: Additional required materials are available on the Blackboard Page for this course. Registration instructions will be described in class. Registered students can access on line materials with Manhattanville's Blackboard site: http://blackboard.mville.edu   PowerPoint presentations of Chapter Materials are available on line by clicking on the chapter numbers in the right column of the chart below.

 

Date Topic and related Web Sites Ex. in Anthology Chap. in Text
8/27 Introduction and Latin Music Tradition: Investigate the American Musicological Society Websites of Interest to Musicologists and Ancient Music Example 3, 5-7 3, 4
8/30 Later Latin Chant and Monophonic Song: A good starting site for Chant Research and Hildegard von Bingen 11-17 5, 6
9/10 Early Polyphony in Spain and France: See the short site about Perotin and follow links to Basic Medieval Repertoire 18,
20-22,  24-25 		 7, 8, 9
9/17 Ars Antiqua and Ars Nova in France: See Wikipedia for concise descriptions of the ars nova and ars subtilior.

Optional additional  Musical Selections On Line: 30

 26, 28,
31-34, 36		 10, 11, 12, 13
9/24 First Mid-Term Exam 3-36 3-13
9/27 Florence, England and Burgundy in the 15th Century: See site for Guillaume Du Fay.

Additional  Musical Selections On Line: 40

 37-40, 42 14, 15, 16
10/4 The Renaissance in the Lowlands and Italy: See sites on Composers from the Netherlands and for Johannes Ockeghem, and Josquin Des Prez. 43-47, 49-50 
 17, 18
10/11 Secular Styles in the 16th Century: See page for a Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments.

Additional  Musical Selections On Line: 60b, 60d and 61b

 53-60a, 60c, 61 20, 21, 22
10/18 The Reformation and Counter-Reformation: The Catholic Encyclopedia has detailed information about the Reformation and Counter Reformation.

Additional  Musical Selections On Line: 72

 64b, 66-67, 69-70, 72-73 24, 25, 26
10/25 Second Mid-Term Exam above from 37-73 14-26
10/29 Monteverdi and the Early Baroque: See the Baroque Music Homepage and the page on Claudio Monteverdi. 77-82 28, 29, 30
11/5 Religious Music in the 17th Century -- Venice, Dresden and Rome: See a scholar's page on Heinrich Schütz. 83-86 31
11/12 Instrumental Music in Italy, Germany and Austria: See pages on Antonio Vivaldi and Dietrich Buxtehude.

Additional Selections: Pachelbel Canon in D Major: version 1 -- winds; version 2 -- strings

 92-93, 95-96, 98-100 33, 34
11/19 Paris and the Late Baroque: See page on  François Couperin. 101-102, 105 35, 36
11/26 Music of the Early 18th Century: see Henry Purcell, Johann Sebastian Bach, and George Frideric Handel Homepages

Additional Selection Bach, Cantata BWV 140, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, mvt 3: Duet, "Wann kömmst du"

 106-117 37, 38, 39, 40
Exam Week Final Exam above from 77 28-40