Syllabus
Speculum Musicae: The Mirror of Music
IDST-1300-09 (Focus: Fine Arts)

 Instructor: Dr. Lynn Raley raleyhl@millsaps.edu
Phone: Ext. 1423
Meeting time: TuTh 2:45 pm
Location: AC 152
REMAINING COURSE SCHEDULE [updated 3/14]

Spring Break!

UNIT 3 - THE MEDIEVAL INTELLECT IN MUSIC, in spite of the calamities of the Fourteenth Century

Week 10 The Century of the Plague

Mar. 25 - The Decameron the Goliards, rabble-rousing student clerics / Carmina Burana
Mar. 27 - FINAL PROJECT FIRST DRAFT DUE, w/ outline! read Bishop 237-267

Week 11 The "Ars Nova" (New Art)

Apr. 1 - Fiero 139-140 (motets), Bishop 237-267 ("The Life of Thought")
Apr. 3 - Ars Nova and Italian Trecento music

Week 11 The "Ars Nova" (New Art)
READINGS FOR THE WEEK: Fiero 139-140 (on motets), Bishop 237-267 ("The Life of Thought")

Apr. 1 - Gregoria Chant Day Singfest! Come cheer your colleagues on
Apr. 3 - French Ars Nova and Italian Trecento music in more detail [isorhythmic motets, the three Formes Fixes ("fixed forms") of the Ars Nova]

Week 12 Guillaume de Machaut, poet and composer

Apr. 8 - Machaut letter, etc.; Ma fin est ma commencement
Apr. 10 - Music, cont. The Duomo in Florence, by Brunellesschi

Week 13 Prelude to the Renaissance

Apr. 15 - SECOND DRAFT DUE Du Fay's motet, designed after an architectural structure; Fiero 116-127
Apr. 17 - Bishop 269-293

Week 14

Apr. 22 - Review for Unit Exam
Apr. 24 - UNIT 3 EXAM
Apr. 25 - EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY: Carmina Burana by Carl Orff
[Millsaps Singers in AC Recital Hall at 7:30]

Final Exam Friday May 2nd at 9:00 am - FINAL PROJECT DUE