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HU Credits:
4
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Musicology
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Uri Jacob
Coordinator Office Hours:
Tuesdays, 9:30-10:30
Teaching Staff:
Mr. Uri Jacob
Ms. dana sholovitz
Course/Module description:
The course's Moodle web-site comprises the most up-to-date information about the course requirements and reading/listening materials.
The course examines music and its place in European society from ca. 800 to ca. 1400. We will study developments in the principal genres that flourished during this period in conjunction with contemporaneous ideas, events, and social structures. Topics addressed in class will include the following: the role of the church and court in the patronage of music, the importance of plainchant both in the Christian liturgy and as a resource for medieval composers, secular song and its context, the development of the motet and cyclic mass, and imitative polyphony
Course/Module aims:
The course aims to develop a set of skills (analysis, evaluation, listening and understanding) in relation to Western Classical music, from classical Greece to the beginning of the 15th century.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Students will gain general knowledge of the musical genres and their social contexts for a given historical period while refining their listening and analysis skills and developing writing and research techniques.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Class and sectionals
Sectionals: The weekly section is an integral part of this course. Led by the Teaching Assistant, this group meeting allows for wider discussion, review, and more detailed examination of ideas presented in lectures and in the textbook.
Course/Module Content:
* Beginnings; Musical literacy
* Music in Ancient Greece; music in Greek musical thought
* Music at Church: Monasteries, Psalms, and the Office
* Music at Church: the mass
* Expanding the repertory: sequences, tropes, liturgical drama
* The 12th-Century Renaissance; early polyphony
* The Ars Antiqua Motet
* The Ars Nova; The Roman de Fauvel
* Guillaume de Machaut, poet and composer
* The Trenceto
* Avignon and the Ars subtilior
Required Reading:
J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, and Claude V. Palisca, A History of Western Music, 89th edition (New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014).
J. Peter Burkholder, and Claude V. Palisca, Norton Anthology of Western Music, 7th edition, Vol. I (New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010). M 1 N67 2010 Vol. 1
Piero Weiss, and Richard Taruskin, eds., Music in the Western World; A History in Documents (Schirmer, 1984). ML160.M865
Oliver Strunk, ed., Source Readings in Music History (New York; W.W. Norton & Company, 1975), revised edition, Leo Treitler, general editor (New York; W.W. Norton & Company, 1998). ML161.S7
Additional Reading Material:
Available in the Moodle website of the course
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 40 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 10 %
Project work 20 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 10 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 20 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
Assigned reading, listening, and score study for each class: Reading assignments will be brief but are usually rich in information and should be completed attentively. After preparing the readings, listen to the assigned pieces and study scores closely. (It is often helpful to listen to the piece a second time after studying the score.)
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