Syllabus Music History & Literature III & IV COURSE DESCRIPTION & GOALS The Music History & Literature sequence at Millsaps is designed to deepen your understanding and enrich your experience of Western art music, through the examination of scores, recordings, and primary source material. Our textbook by Mark Evan Bonds will provide the framework, focusing on specific works and attempting to present the cultural and political contexts that surrounds each. Our challenge will be to find a balance between a contextual approach and a purely musical approach which examines the notes themselves. As we look at the social function and performance circumstances surrounding these works, we will think about what that says about the people who valued such music and helped support its creation. We will read primary source material and enter into debates when these “raw materials of history” (Bonds) are open to conflicting interpretations, which can be often. Finally, as we experience the music itself through active and intelligent listening, we will seek to understand the nature of the evolution of musical style in the West, from ancient Greece to the present day. |
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