Unit One: Foundations and Revivals
Introductions
Ancient Foundations
Origins of European Music Notation
Early Music Today
Early Music Today
Unit Two: Medieval Music, Then and Now
Chant
Liturgical Polyphony as Concert Music
Medieval Song and Dance
Unit Three: Renaissance Historiography and Music of the 15th and 16th Centuries
Renaissance Humanism, Style, and Technology
Italian Madrigals to Die for (and some English offshoots)
Renaissance Instrumental Music
Motets and Ficta Debates
Music and the Reformations
Aesthetic Ideals: Then and Now
Colonialism and New World Music
Unit Four: Baroque Genres and Styles
Opera Origins
Temperament and Tonality
Virtuosity and Affectation in Baroque Instrumental Music
Humanizing “Masters”
Unit Five: Classical Music, Colonialism, and Enlightenment
Haydn and Saint-Georges
Mozart Opera: Then and Now
Social Function of Tonality and Form in the Enlightenment
Symphonic Prestige and Grandeur
European Musical Imports to American Colonies and New Republic
Music and Enslavement