MUSC 40501 - Music History I

This course offers a broad introduction to the history of music from Greek and Roman antiquity until circa 1600. In addition to developing skills pertinent to matters of style, genre, function, and form, students will engage with the social, cultural, and philosophical contexts of musicking from a global perspective. Historical approaches to music pedagogy; connections between music and the body; developments in musical notation and music publishing; the evolving relationship between music and text; and the relationship between musical transmission and human migration will be emphasized in this course. Above all, this course aims to foster and develop listening skills essential to thinking, speaking, and writing critically and intelligently about all musical traditions, and to combine these skills with historical and cultural knowledge of diverse musical traditions.

Preparation for Course
P. MUSC 10500.

Cr. 3.