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May 03, 2024
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College Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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GRMUS 621T — Building Baroque: Compositional Theory in the 18th Century2 credits
Fall
Jonathan Dawe
The 17th and 18th centuries were robust times regarding developments in compositional thinking. This course promotes an appreciation of this music through an awareness of the creative attitudes of the period. Informed by historical theoretic sources of the Baroque period, this investigation offers contextually fresh views of this music. A study of these perspectives, analysis, and creation of compositional models draw upon contemporary-Baroque precepts of thorough-bass practices, counterpoint viewpoints, and rhetorical thinking. Cumulative course projects culminate in the creation of a mini-Baroque concerto movement, informed, fueled, and energized by compositional treatises of the time.
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