MUH 350 Survey of Western Music, FALL 07


Course Central

Comments & Links
Discourse Workbook
Include handouts; notes (typed); glossary; presentation handouts; anything else relevant to you and your future.

Bring up-to-date notebooks to class on the following dates:
- 10.9; 11.6; oral test (finals week)



Course Links:
Presentation Guide


Course Links:
Reading Concise Chap 1 (big)
Reading Concise Chap 2 (big)
Reading Concise Chap 1
(small)
Reading Concise Chap 2
(small)
Music History Page

UMF Music Wiki
Assignment Rubric/Guidelines
iTunes

UMF Contemp Music Wiki
Free Mind Great software!
Class Listserve

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My office hours are Fri 10:20 -12:00 or by appointment. You can also take me to a free lunch--not that I'm hinting or anything.


Presentation Count:
Andrew: 1
Ben: 1
Elliot: 1
Josh: 1 1
Meg: 1
Nate: 1
Seth: 1
Shea: 1 1


 
Clicky Here for Current Week: (Page updated: 10/23/07 )
Keep in Mind . . .
- What we cover in each seminar will change as we go evolve through the semester.
- Have your presentation materials copied prior to class and send an RTF version to everyone in the class for their Discourse Workbook.
- Don't be late to class. Really.

Seminar 1: 9.11

Topics:
- Josh: Greek Music
- Meg: Music of the Early Christian Church
- Steve: Chant continued & Secular Song (Chap 3 in Grout)
- Steve: Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time

Handouts:
- Messiaen Scores
- Messiaen's writings about Time
-
Readings
- Terms through the Renaissance
- Questions for next week's readings

Announcements:
- Concise readings
- Syllabus
- NY Trip
- Getting Grout
- Steve introduces next week's readings and questions
- Plan fun seminar/opera seminar
- EA LAB meet afterwards!

Seminar 2: 9.18

Readings Due:
- Concise Grout, Chapters 1 and 2
- Big Grout, Ch 5 (Polyphony through the Thirteenth Century); and Ch 6 (French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century)

Topics:
Shea - 12th Century

THURSDAY 9.20

Commonground Presentation:

Maine Mountain Chamber Series: Messiaen

Quartet for the End of Time (prep for the concert)


FRIDAY:

Sat 9.22, 7:30 pm

Maine Mountain Chamber Series: Messiaen

Quartet for the End of Time (free for UMF students)

Seminar 3: 9.25

Readings Due:
- Big Grout, Ch 7 (Age of the Renaissance); Ch 8 (England and Burgundy in the 15th Century); Ch 9 (Franco-Flemish Composers);

Plans:

- Review topics done to-date
- Please visit Norton's History of Western Music Homepage
- Terms, Terms, Terms

Topics:

Andrew: Trecento
Nate: Introduction to the Renaissance
Meg: Du Fay and Ockeghem


Seminar 4: 10.2

Readings Due:
- Big Grout, Ch 10 (Sacred Music in the Era of the Reformation); Ch 11 (Madrigal and Secular Song in the 16th Century); Ch 12 (The Rise of Instrumental Music)

Topics:
- Music of the Protestant Reformation (Shea)
- William Byrd (Elliot)
- Palestrina (Josh)
- Orlando di Lasso
(Ben)

Announcements:

OUR VERY BIG TRIP TO NEW YORK CITY!
Fri
- Mon (5 - 8)

Seminar 5: 10.9

Readings Due:
- Big Grout, Ch 13 (New Styles in the 17th Century); Ch 14 (The Invention of Opera); Ch 15 (Music for Chamber and Church in the Early 17th Century)

Topics:

Announcements:

Nate: Rise of Instruments
Andrew: Birth of Opera
Seth: Monteverdi


THURSDAY:

Thur 10.11, 7:30 pm

Francesc de Paula Soler, classical guitarist from Barcelona.
A program of Spanish and Spanish American music

at Old South Church
(across the street from Merrill and to the left.)

Seminar 6: 10.16

Readings Due:
- Big Grout, Ch 16 (France, England, Spain, and the New World in the 17th Century); Ch 17 (Italy and Germany in the Late 17th Century)

Topics:

Announcements:

Seminar 7: 10.23

Readings Due:
- Big Grout, Ch 18 (The Early 18th Century in italy and France); Ch 19 (German Composers of the Late Baroque)

Topics:

Announcements:

Ben: Vivaldi
Elliot: Bach
Andrew: Handel
Nate: Rameau

Seminar 8a: 11.6

Readings Due:
- Big Grout, Ch 20 (Opera and Vocal Music in the Early Classic Period); Ch 21 (Instrumental Music: Sonata, Symphony, and Concerto

Topics:

Announcements:

Sat. 11.10 Time TBA
Seminar 8b: Arts Workshop Day - We Will Hold a Review Seminar

7:30 pm
Young Republic Concert

Seminar 9: 11.13

Readings Due:
- Big Grout, Ch 22 (Classica Music in the Late 18th Century)

Topics:

Announcements:

Seminar 10: 11.20

Readings Due:
- Big Grout, Ch 23 (Revolution and Change); Ch 24 (The Romantic Generation: Song and piano Music); Ch 25 (Romanticism in Classic Formas: Orchestral, Chamber and Choral Music)

Topics:

Announcements:

Seminar 11 : 11.25

Readings Due:
- Big Grout, Ch 26 (Romantic Opera and Musical Theater to Midcentury); Ch 27 (Opera and Musical Theater in the Later Nineteenth Century);

Topics:

Announcements:

Seminar 12: 12.4

Readings Due:
- Big Grout, Ch 10 (Sacred Music in the Era of the Reformation); Ch 11 (Madrigal and Secular Song in the 16th Century); Ch 12 (The Rise of Instrumental Music)

Topics:

Announcements:

Sat 12.8, 7:30 pm
Pond Duck Quintet performing the Beatles Abbey Road

Review and Musicology Orals

We will hold a review seminar during our scheduled final exam: Tuesday, 8:00 am to 10:00 am. Yes, you can reschedule it, but find a time we can all make. We will then schedule individual times when you will take your musicology orals.

 

 


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