History and Literature (MUSC 1205)

• Developing music listening and analysis skills
• Mid-Eastern, Greek and Roman Heritage
• Early Medieval Church, its liturgy and chant
• Early secular monphonic repertoire
• Early polyphony and its genres
• Ars Nova music and music theory; music of Guillaume Machaut
• Italian 14th century secular repertoire
• Medieval instruments and instrumental music
• Late Medieval English Music
• Music of Burgundy and Guillaume Dufay
• Social charcteristics of the Medieval and Renaissance
• Music of Ockeghem, Josquin des Pres and Heinrich Isaac
• Reformation Music; Counter Reformation repertoire
• Late Renaissance polyphony by Palestrina, di Lasso and William Byrd
• Late Renaissance secular polyphony, including frottola, madrigal and chanson
• 16th century Instrumental repertoire
• The Venetian Polychoral school

This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.