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Antique and Medieval Music

Code:
91551
Higher education institution:
Academy of Music
ECTS credits:
5.0
Load:
15(ME) + 15(L) + 15(S)
Course contractors:

Ana Čizmić Grbić (ME, L, S)

Adjunct Professor Hana Breko Kustura, PhD (ME, L, S)

Course description:
Week 1 (1 hour lecture, 1 hour seminar, 1 hour practice): History of music and musicians in Ancient Greece (five stages) and Rome. Listening and analysis of selected music examples (Ancient Greece and Rome). Week 2 (1 hour lecture, 1 hour seminar, 1 hour practice): Instruments, different musical forms, theory and musical thought in Ancient Greece. Week 3 (1 hour lecture, 1 hour seminar, 1 hour practice): Music in early Christian worship (psalmody, hymnody; 1st-6th c.), Byzantine music (periodisation, tonal system, notation, secular music; 4th-15. c.). Listening and analysis of selected music examples (early Christian music and Byzantine chant). Week 4 (1 hour lecture, 1 hour seminar, 1 hour practice): General overview and periodisation of medieval secular monophonic music (11th-15th c.). Week 5 (1 hour lecture, 1 hour seminar, 1 hour practice): The troubadour tradition in southern France (five generations; 11th-13th c.). Listening and analysis of selected music examples. Week 6 (1 hour lecture, 1 hour seminar, 1 hour practice): The touvere tradition in northern France (three generations; 12th-13th c.), in northern Italy, Castile, Aragon and Portugal. Listening and analysis of selected music examples. Week 7 (1 hour lecture, 1 hour seminar, 1 hour practice): Minnesang and Meistersang in medieval German lands (12th-15th c.). Listening and analysis of selected music examples. Week 8 (1 hour lecture, 1 hour seminar, 1 hour practice): Stylistic elements in medieval polyphonic music (9th-15th c.). Week 9 (1 hour lecture, 1 hour seminar, 1 hour practice): Early (9th-11th c.) and new (12th c.; Saint Martial in Limoges) organum. Listening and analysis of selected music examples. Week 10 (1 hour lecture, 1 hour seminar, 1 hour practice): Notre Dame school polyphony (12th-13th c.). Works of Leonin and Perotin. Rhythm, notation, forms (motet, conductus, rondellus) and sources. Listening and analysis of selected music examples. Week 11 (1 hour lecture, 1 hour seminar, 1 hour practice): Ars antiqua (13th-14th c.). Rhythm, mensural notation, forms (motet, conductus, hoquetus, rondeau). Composers, theorists and sources. Listening and analysis of selected music examples. Week 12 (1 hour lecture, 1 hour seminar, 1 hour practice): Ars nova in France and Trecento in Italy (14th c.). Composers (G. de Machault, Ph. de Vitry, F. Landini), forms (motet, mass, chanson; ballata, madrigal, caccia), mensural notation. Listening and analysis of selected music examples. Week 13 (1 hour lecture, 1 hour seminar, 1 hour practice): Ars subtilior (14th-15th c.) and proto-renaissance mannerism. Listening and analysis of selected music examples (Ars subtilior). Sources (codex Chantilly) Week 14 (1 hour lecture, 1 hour seminar, 1 hour practice): Medieval musical instruments (bowed and plucked string instruments): harp, lyre, psaltery, lute, vielle, organistrum, monochord. Listening of selected examples of instrumental music (solo and ensebmle). Week 15 (1 hour lecture, 1 hour seminar, 1 hour practice): Medieval musical instruments (wind and percussion): horn, trumpet, shawm, flute, bagpipes, organ, drums, bells, rattles. Listening of selected examples of instrumental music (solo and ensebmle).
Mandatory literature:

1. Chailley, Jacques (2005): Povijest glazbe srednjega vijeka, Zagreb: Hrvatsko muzikološko društvo. Hoppin, Richard H. (1978): Medieval music, New York: W. W. Norton & Company Inc. Yudkin, Jeremy (1989): Music in Medieval Europe, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

Recommended literature:

2. Cattin, Giulio (1984): Music of the Middle Ages I, Cambrigde: Cambridge University Press. Crocker, Richard - Hiley, David (1990): The Early Middle Ages to 1300 (The New Oxford History of Music 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press. Everist, Mark (ur.) (2012): The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Music, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Gallo, F. Alberto (1985): Music of the Middle Ages II, Cambrigde: Cambridge University Press. Hiley, David (1997): Western Plainchant : A Handbook, Oxford: Clarendon Press. Michels, Ulrich (2004): Atlas glazbe I, Zagreb: Golden marketing - Tehnička knjiga.

Learning outcomes:

1. Throughout this course students are expected to acquire the following competencies: knowledge of basic stylistic determinants and repertoires of ancient and medieval music

2. contextualization of the music of the period in relation to other aspects of ancient and medieval culture

3. identification and reading of music notation in medieval sources

4. analytical approach to ancient and medieval music

5. critical evaluation of the performances of ancient and medieval music

6. knowledge of the main musicological literature on ancient and medieval music

7. knowledge of research techniques and methodologies in the field of ancient and medieval music

Course in study programme:
Code Name of study Level of study Semester Required/Elective
95 Musicology integrated undergraduate and graduate 1 required

* the course is not taught in that semester

Legend

  • S - Seminar
  • ME - Musical exercise
  • L - Lecture