GRMUS 602H — Proseminar in Music History: The Middle Ages and Renaissance

2 credits
Spring
Elizabeth Weinfield

This course will investigate musical works written from approximately 900–1700 and the major ideas, genres, and composers that intersect with them. We will approach this music in the context of contemporaneous historical and political events, cultural institutions, and philosophical ideas, and examine acoustemological interactions—that is, exchanges about the music people make, and its significance, within and across cultures, borders, and regions— between western and global entities in the early modern world. Also a research class, the course will cover the major secondary literature on the field, as well as historiographical debates surrounding trends in Medieval and Renaissance reception.