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Ancient Greek Music and Music Theory ►
Improvised and Early Composed Polyphony ►
The Notre Dame School and the Ars antiqua ►
Fourteenth-Century Secular Polyphonic Song ►
Study Week (Medieval summary ► )
Listening Test 1 / The Contenance angloise ►
Settings of the Ordinary of the Mass ►
Music and Early Print Culture ►
Assessment
One listening test (50%) and one 1,000-word essay (50%): EITHER essay 1 (due noon Tuesday 31 October) and test 2
OR test 1 and essay 2 (due noon Monday 11 December)
Recommended General Reading
MEDIEVAL
Richard H. Hoppin, Medieval Music (New York and London: Norton, 1978) (library)
Giulio Cattin, Music of the Middle Ages I, transl. Steven Botterill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984) (library)
The Early Middle Ages to 1300, ed. Richard Crocker and David Hiley, The New Oxford History of Music, vol. 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990) (library)
Jeremy Yudkin, Music in Medieval Europe (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1989) (library)
Gustave Reese, Music in the Middle Ages (London: Dent, 1941) (library)
RENAISSANCE
Howard M. Brown (rev. Louise K. Stein), Music in the Renaissance (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1999) (library)
Leeman L. Perkins, Music in the Age of the Renaissance (New York and London: Norton, 1999) (library)
Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance (London: Dent, 1954) (library)