Syllabus, Fall 2007
The Evolution of Style in Western Music
MUSC 2100

Instructor: Dr. Lynn Raley

Phone: X 1423

e-mail: raleyhl@millsaps.edu

Office: AC 248

Meeting times: MWF 11:00-11:50, Th 9

Location: AC 152

GENRES to recognize by sight

Know the identifying characteristics of the following genres:

  1. organum duplum, organum triplum, organum quadruplum
  2. the clausula
  3. the motet (and its relationship to the clausula)
  4. the conductus (how is it different from a motet?)
  5. the Petronian motet
  6. the isorhythmic motet (what's an isorhythm?)
  7. the isorhythmic mass movement (Machaut, in our book)
  8. the ballade
  9. the virelai
  10. the rondeau
  11. the ballata
  12. the caccia
  13. the part song (English)
  14. the estampie

COMPOSITIONS to know by ear (name composer where known)

  1. Haec dies -- organum duplum (Leonin)
  2. Sederunt -- organum quadruplum (Perotin) [NetJuke only]
  3. Lonc tens ai mon cuer / In saeculum -- motet
  4. Huic main / Hec dies -- motet
  5. A Paris / on parole / frese nouvele -- secular polytextual motet
  6. Flos ut rosa floruit -- conductus
  7. Je cuidoie / Se j'ai / Solem -- "Petronian" motet (by Petrus de Cruce or in the style of Petrus de Cruce) [NetJuke only]
  8. Kyrie from Messe de Nostre Dame (Machaut)
  9. Je puis trop bien -- virelai from the Ars Nova (Machaut)
  10. Tout par compas -- rondeau from the Ars Subtilior (Baude Cordier)
  11. Ecco la primavera -- ballata from the Trecento (Landini)
  12. Non al suo amante -- 14th. c. Italian madrigal (Jacopo da Bologna)
  13. A post messe -- caccia (Firenze)
  14. Doctorum principem / Melodia / Vir mitis -- isorhythmic "civic" motet (Ciconia)
  15. Sumer is icumen in -- English part song (canon)
  16. La quinte estampie real
 
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