Assessment
One 1,200-word essay, due 12:00 Monday 11 March (50%).
One listening test (50%).
General Reading
Harry Haskell, The Early Music Revival: A History (London: Thames and Hudson, 1988) (library)
Bruce Haynes, The End of Early Music: A Period Performer’s History of Music for the Twenty-First Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) (library)
Peter le Huray, Authenticity in Performance: Eighteenth-Century Case Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) (library)
The Cambridge Companion to Singing, ed. John Potter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) (library)
The Cambridge Companion to Choral Music, ed. André de Quadros (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) (library)
Baroque Music, ed. Peter Walls (Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2011) (library)
Introduction: What is Performance Practice?
Voices, especially countertenors
Study Week
Rhythm in twelfth-century polyphony
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