MUSI-250: Music History

SP. 2017 (3 cr.) Instructor: Gerald J. Blanchard, M.Mus.

Class Meets: T/TH 11:30AM-12:50PM D215

Office Hours: See posted Schedule

blanchardg@kellogg.edu

965-3931 ext. 2566

Musical Philosophy The study of music helps to spark creative development. Music knowledge and

performance helps increase critical thinking skills, concentration, self-discipline and

self-expression.

Course Description

Music from antiquity through the Baroque. We will review literature and theory of

vocal and instrumental music leading up to the classical time period.

Please note: This IS NOT a music appreciation class, but rather a music history

course. This class is reading intensive and will require many hours of individualized

studying, group session review and analysis of readings, reviews and music.

Specific Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

1. Identify and define key stylistic traits of the medieval, Renaissance and early

Baroque periods in Western Europe.

2. Define and apply key terms and concepts within each era.

3. Identify composers and representative works in each era, and discuss their

significance.

4. Discuss important socio-economic and cultural trends and their associated

musical tradition.

5. Aurally recognize and identify representative forms and compositional techniques

related to Western music from ancient times to circa 1750.

REQUIRED TEXTS

Texts: Concise History of Western Music, B. R. Hanning, 4th ed.

1. ATTENDANCE POLICY: Students are allowed 3 absences from class during the

semester. No excuse is needed for these absences. After that, any unexcused absence

takes 10% off the student’s final grade with the following exception: Any student missing

6 classes for any reason will be asked to withdraw. NO Absence is excused the week

before or of a performance. Concert attendance is MANDATORY. An excused absence

is one where the instructor has been contacted previously and approved it or a doctor’s

excuse is provided. Lateness of any kind will take 5% off the student’s daily attendance

points. The instructor will always endeavor to release class on time.

Regular attendance is an essential part of the educational experience and a requirement

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Option is not available.”

Incoming students enrolled in general education degree programs will be required to

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interested in pursuing this option. Detailed instructions will be provided later, but you

should know you will need to:

* Provide your own transportation to and from the placement site.

* Perform a minimum of 15 hours of service.

* Complete your hours by due date provided in the schedule.

* Complete reflection activity(s).

* Successfully complete both the course and the service.

Once the course and service are completed satisfactorily, the instructor will notify the

Registrar's office and it will be indicated on your transcript.

ASSESSMENT METHODS: Attendance and participation are the primary factors in

determining final grades. Since learning and performances are basic aspects of this

course, it should be understood that daily attendance counts for a daily grade; attendance

at outside rehearsals counts for quizzes; and performances count as tests. In addition,

quartet singing may be employed to assess the level of preparation.

Final grades are based on the following components:

Attendance 20%

Participation 20%

Preparation 20%

Performances 40%

the instructor, considered correct and complete when distributed for use at the beginning

of the semester. However, the instructor reserves the right, acting within the policies and

procedures of Kellogg Community College, to make changes in course content or

instructional techniques without notice or obligation.

Mode of Instruction: This course will incorporate a variety of learning experiences.

Lectures, class discussions, large and small group work, and oral and written assignments

will be used to enhance and reinforce textbook readings (when applicable). Guest

speakers, videos, hands-on learning activities and field trips may also be used to support

textbook theory and practice and performance research.

WITHDRAWAL: Check with the registrar’s office for the last day to withdraw and

receive full refund.

METHOD OF PRESENTATION The objectives of the course will be accomplished through class lectures, group discussion and activity, musical score study and discussion, listening to musical performances and recordings, reading assignments, research, live concert performance attendance and written examinations.

EVALUATION/GRADING SCALE:

A: 1000 pts. A-: 900pts. B+: 800 pts. B: 700 pts. B-: 600 pts. C+: 500 pts.

C: 400 pts. C-: 300 pts. D+: 200 pts. D: 100 pts. D-: 75 pts. E: 74 and below

FINAL GRADES ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING COMPONENTS:

Attendance 300 pts.

Daily Assignments/Activities 100 pts.

Period Exams & Presentations 200 pts.

Quizzes 200 pts.

Concert Attendance 100 pts.

Final Presentation 100 pts.

1. General Policies: All homework must be turned in on time.

2. Attendance and class participation.

A. Three (3) tardies = one (1) absence.

B. If a student is absent from more than six (6) class meetings, s/he will receive a failing grade at the end of the semester. It is the student’s responsibility to keep track of their absences and is welcome to check their attendance with the instructor at any time.

C. Students are responsible for any information, assignments, announcements, handouts, etc. that are missed due to an absence from class.

D. If desired and for whatever reason (attendance, failing grade, etc.) after consultation with the instructor, it is the student’s responsibility to initiate a course drop. If the student fails to do so, they will receive an F at the end of the semester.

E. Students are expected to have completed all reading assignments PRIOR to coming to class, and should be prepared to take an active part in class or small group discussion.

STUDENT MUST ATTEND:

Three (3) KCC Concerts/ recitals. This may include the “applied music”

departmental “Afternoon Student Recital Series,” KCC Faculty Artist Recital

Series, KCC Choir concerts and or any KCC instrumental Ensemble concerts.

You must attend one (1) community concert program. This may include a local

Temple/church recital or choir performance, community band or orchestra

performance. A religious service is not acceptable!

IMPORTANT:

You must TYPE a (1) page description of each concert event attended. The

program booklet MUST accompany the paper and the event must be within the

scope of the course. No contemporary rock concerts, blues, jazz, R & B etc. It

must be a performance represented by the themes and subjects discussed in class.

A special off campus trip may be arranged.

Assignments are due at the beginning of the class meeting for which they are

assigned. Late work will NOT be accepted. The assignments will be graded

and returned at the beginning of the following class meeting when possible.

ASSIGNMENTS, LECTURES AND DISCUSSION TOPICS DISCUSSION TOPIC Assigned Chapter Readings

Music of the Ancient Greeks, a brief review

1. Music and Culture

2. Instruments

3. Venue

4. The Chorus

5. Music of the Era

6. Defining the cultural perspective

Chapter 1-2

The musical legacies of antiquity:

1. Music in the Roman Empire

2. Concluding thoughts

3. Quiz #1

Details for Quiz:

Review all class and

discussion notes. Also be sure

to review musical examples

and ALL of chapter 1 and

review chapter 2

Music in the early church:

1. Early traditions

2. Role of music during the Middle Ages

3. Church, modes and chants

4. Gregorian Chant models

5. Quiz #2

Details for Quiz:

Review all class and

discussion notes. Also be sure

to review musical examples

and pgs. 3-47.

THE MEDIEVAL ERA

(800-1400 C.E.) 1. Basics

2. Legacies of the Roman Empire

3. Life in Medieval Europe

6. The Troubador/Trouveres and their

secular songs

7. Other groups of musical travelers and

their songs!

8. Plainsong Vs. Secular Song

THE RISE OF

POLYPHONY

Chapter 2

Read remainder of this

chapter and review earlier

sections.

Begin reading chapter 3

10. Women in Music during the

Medieval Era

MAJOR MUSICAL FORMS OF THE

MEDIEVAL ERA:

“ ” 1. Defining Organum

2. Early Organum

3. Types of Organum

4. Organum: Polyphony during the 11th

century

5. Aquitanian Organum (Organum of the 12th

century)

6. Quiz #3

Chapter 3

Read pages: 54-70

Details for Quiz:

Review all class and

discussion notes. Also be sure

to review musical examples

and pgs. 3-70.

1. Organum and the Rhythmic Modes

2. Developments of the Notre Dame

School of Composition

3. Notre Dame and its Composers!

4. Developments leading to the Motet

Conductus

Clausula

6. Additional Motet forms

Franconian

Isoryhthmic

7. Song forms and devices

8. Expansion of Motet

9. Quiz #4

Read pages: 56-58, 60-61,

62- 70

Read pages: 70-74

Quiz

Details for Quiz:

Review all class and

discussion notes. Also be sure

to review musical examples

and chapters 1-3

1. French and Italian Music during the

Fourteenth century

2. Musical Forms of the Era:

Chanson

Madrigal

Additional vocal forms

3. Sacred Idioms: Offices/Mass

READ CHAPTER 4

REVIEW CHAPTERS 1-4!

Review pages 32-40

5.

6. Important composers of the Era

o Machaut

o Leonin

o Perotin

o De Vitry

o Landini

o Dufay

YOU MUST KNOW THESE

COMPOSERS!

1. Musical and Poetic Forms

2. Instrumental Music Forms

3. Instruments of the era

Unit Examination Exam will cover chapters 1-4 in your text

and lectures 1

Review all lectures, chapter

readings 1-4, class discussion

reviews and listening units.

This is a unit examination!

Review your study sheets

from your lecture based quiz

guides.

END OF MEDIEVAL UNIT

THE RENAISSANCE ERA

1400-1600

1. General Overview

2. Musical developments

3. Economic, artistic and cultural

advancements

4. International Style

5. The cultural shifts in ideas

6. Changes in music

7. Humanism

8. Renaissance in Italian Culture

9. Major Vocal Music Forms

10. Renaissance Mass forms

11. Composers of the Era

12. QUIZ #5

Read Chapter 5 “The Age of the

Renaissance”

Begin reading chapter 6

Review Chapters 4-6

Review listening examples

class discussion and

lecture notes

1. Motets of the Renaissance

2. Motet Composers

3. Rise of the Motet

4. The Renaissance Chanson

5. Chanson composers

6. 16th Century Madrigal

7. The English Madrigal

8. Madrigalist composers

9. Renaissance Vocal Forms (Beyond

Mass/Motet/Chanson and Madrigal)

10. The Rise of Renaissance Instrumental

Forms & Developments

11. QUIZ #6

Read chapter 7 & 8

1. The Reformation

The German Chorale

Polyphonic settings in the Roman

Catholic Church

Sacred music in the era of the

Reformation

Who was Martin Luther?

The German Mass

Who was John Calvin?

Anglican Church Music

John Taverner

Anthem, Motet…What’s the

Difference?

2. The Counter-Reformation

The Council of Trent

Palestrina

3. Major composers of the era

4. QUIZ #7

5. RENAISSANCE UNIT EXAM!

Read Pages 147-161

(chapter 8)

1. Characteristics of the Music and

Period

2. The Two Practices

3. Development of Opera

4. The Florentine Camerata

5. Baroque vs. Renaissance

6. Opera

THE BAROQUE ERA

Read chapter 9

1. Principal Baroque Genres

Early Opera

The Italian Contribution

Roman opera?

Monteverdi and his

contribution!

Early French opera

ITALIAN OPERA OF THE

SEVENTEENTH AND

EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES

THE DEVELOPMENT OF

ENGLISH OPERA

2. Non- Operatic forms

Vocal Chamber Music

French Secular Song

Various Vocal/Choral Forms

3. J. S. Bach

4. The Cantata

5. Music and Acoustics (Gabrieli)

6. SACRED GENRES:

Used by Gabrieli and other Baroque

composers

1. Instrumental Music of the era

2. Organ Music

3. The Suite

4. Orchestral Suite

5. The Sonata (Not the Car!)

One on One meetings for final

presentation

Group A Final Presentation

Group B Final Presentation

Group C Final Presentation

MUSIC HISTORY LISTENING LIST

(Some selections may be adjusted)

Epitaph of Seikilos Earliest surviving music of

the first century

#1

Plainchant Hymn Pange

Lingua

Plainsong #2

Beatriz de Dia Courtly love

song/Troubador song

#3

Cantigas de Santa Maria Cantiga: 13th-century

Spanish monophonic, or

unison, song

#4

Organum Haec dies-

Leonin

two or three lines moving

simultaneously but

independently, therefore

almost inadvertently

representing the beginnings

of harmony

#5

Conductus Flos ut rosa Conductus #6

Motet: A Paris Early 14th century motet #7

Je puis trop bien-Machaut Early Chanson #8

summer is icummen in-

Rota

Rota or Round #9

Non al suo amante-

Bologna

14th century Madrigal #10

A poste messe-Firenze Caccia or chase. This is

often associated with the

hunt

#11

La Messe de Nostre Dame-

Kyrie movement, Machaut

Cyclic Mass: Mass of Our

Lady

#12

La quinte estampie-

Estampie

Estampie, a dance piece set

using a monophonic form

#13

De Plus en plus by

Johannes Ockeghem

Popular tune which served

as the basis for the mass of

the same title.

#14

Missa de plus en plus Paraphrased Mass #15

El Grillo-Josquin Depres A Frottola: Predecessor to

the madrigal

#16

Hor venduto-Marchetto A Frottola: Predecessor to

the madrigal

#17

Ave Maria-Josquin Motet #18

Missa Pange Lingua-

Josquin

Mass #19

Bach chorale Reformation/Chorale #20

Title Instrumentation/Significance Track #

De tous biens Instrumental/Use of Viols #1

Helas que pourra devenir Flute/Violin and Lute #2

Al amor Instrumental work #3

Now is the Month English Madrigal with

instrumental accomp.

#4

Ricercar Use of improvisation #5

Canzon per sonar Use of imitation and “Call

and Response”

#6

Bouree Instrumental Dance/Bouree

form

#7

Ein feste Burg Music of the Reformation #8

Spem in Alium Forty Voiced motet #9

Sing Joyfully- prt.1

Sing Joyfully-prt. 2

English Anthem #10/11

Cruda Amarili Italian Madrigal/Seconda

Practica Style

#12

Dunque Early opera/Italian #13

Shake the Cloud 17th. century English Opera #14

Orfeo excerpt Early

Opera/Monteverdi/Orfeo

#15

Armide 17th century French

Opera/Lully

#16

Julius Ceasare 18th. century Baroque Opera #17

Wachet Auf 18th. century Cantata #18

In Eclesiis Music of Venice/St. Mark’s #19

Comfort Ye My People

Worthy is the Lamb

The 18th century Oratorio

Recitative

Chorus

#20/21

Allemande Harpsichord suite by

Buxtedude

#22

Concerto in A Uses strings, continuo #23

Concerto Grosso in F Uses keyboard, recorded #24

Trio Sonata op.3 Uses a combination of

instruments

#25

FINAL RESEARCH PRESENTATION:

This project is meant to provide an opportunity to allow you to explore an issue in more

detail. This is not a book report but rather a research project. YOU WILL BE

REQUIRED TO SPEND TIME IN THE LIBRARY AND MUSIC RESOURCE

ROOM. The paper document should be typed double spaced. It is anticipated that most

papers will be approximately 3-5 pages in length and the presentation runs 15 min. from

start to finish. Please practice giving your final presentation often. See rubric for grading

breakdown.

Here is an excellent resource to aid you in preparing for

your research project/presentation

How to Write a Music History Paper

http://courses.music.indiana.edu/m401/M401how2.html