Module Details

Module Code: MUSC8030
Title: European Music to 1600
Long Title: European Music to 1600
NFQ Level: Advanced
Valid From: Semester 1 - 2021/22 ( September 2021 )
Duration: 1 Semester
Credits: 5
Field of Study: 2121 - Music & Performing Arts
Module Delivered in: 2 programme(s)
Module Description: This module explores the socio-political contexts in which the Western musical tradition emerged and developed, and examines the technical and aesthetic issues of the repertory and its realisation in a modern performance setting.
 
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to:
# Learning Outcome Description
LO1 Relate key dates, events and social developments to music history within the given time frame
LO2 Evaluate the role of music within prevailing social, economic, and political conditions
LO3 Plan and carry out an investigation of an aspect of music between 1100-1600, using a range of historical sources
LO4 Structure and present historical knowledge in written form
LO5 Discuss specific repertoires and their artistic significance
Dependencies
Module Recommendations

This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is strongly recommended before enrolment in this module. You may enrol in this module if you have not acquired the recommended learning but you will have considerable difficulty in passing (i.e. achieving the learning outcomes of) the module. While the prior learning is expressed as named MTU module(s) it also allows for learning (in another module or modules) which is equivalent to the learning specified in the named module(s).
Incompatible Modules
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Co-requisite Modules
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Requirements

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Indicative Content
Antiquity
Roots of the Western tradition in concepts and practices of the ancient world.
Music in medieval liturgies
Development and codification of chant, development of notation system, early polyphony.
Monophonic traditions - Latin and vernacular
Intertextuality; Troubadour, Trouvère, Minnesinger traditions; Popular devotional song in England, Iberian peninsula, Italy
Renaissance
Economic and social developments and their impact on musical traditions and practices. Technical and aesthetic aspects of sacred and secular polyphony.
Performance practice
Improvised traditions; notational conventions; interpretation of scores; transcription. The Early Music movement and its influence on present-day performance, recording and editing.
Sources
Sources for the study and performance of Medieval and Renaissance music: manuscript, facsimile, modern edition, musical artefacts, literary sources, modern scholarship.
Module Content & Assessment
Assessment Breakdown%
Coursework100.00%

Assessments

Coursework
Assessment Type Short Answer Questions % of Total Mark 25
Timing Week 9 Learning Outcomes 1,2,5
Assessment Description
Chronology, terminology, aural analysis
Assessment Type Reflective Journal % of Total Mark 25
Timing Every Second Week Learning Outcomes 1,2,3,4,5
Assessment Description
Responses to listening, reading, and practical assignments
Assessment Type Essay % of Total Mark 50
Timing Sem End Learning Outcomes 1,2,3,4,5
Assessment Description
Investigation of an approved topic
No End of Module Formal Examination
Reassessment Requirement
Coursework Only
This module is reassessed solely on the basis of re-submitted coursework. There is no repeat written examination.

The University reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment

 

Module Workload

Workload: Full Time
Workload Type Contact Type Workload Description Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload Hours
Lecture Contact European music to 1600 Every Week 1.00 1
Tutorial Contact Development of research topic, practicum: transcription, analysis, performance Every Week 0.50 0.5
Independent & Directed Learning (Non-contact) Non Contact Study, research, listening Every Week 5.50 5.5
Total Hours 7.00
Total Weekly Learner Workload 7.00
Total Weekly Contact Hours 1.50
This module has no Part Time workload.
 
Module Resources
Recommended Book Resources
  • Fassler, Margot. (2014), Music in the Medieval West, Norton, [ISBN: 978039392915].
  • Taruskin, Richard. (2010), Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century, Oxford U.P, [ISBN: 9780195384819].
  • Atlas, Allan. (1998), Renaissance Music: Music in Western Europe 1400-1600, Norton, New York, [ISBN: 0-393-97169-4].
Supplementary Book Resources
  • Atlas, Allan W.. (1998), Anthology of Renaissance Music: Western Europe 1400-1600, Norton, New York, [ISBN: 9780393971705].
  • Brown, Howard M.. (1976), Music in the Renaissance, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, [ISBN: 0136084974].
  • Hoppin, Richard H.. (1978), Medieval Music, Norton, New York, [ISBN: 0-393-09090-6].
  • Fenlon, Iain, ed.. (1989), The Renaissance: from the 1470s to the end of the 16th century, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, [ISBN: 0137734174].
  • McGee, Timothy. (1985), Medieval and Renaissance Music: a Performer's Guide, Scholar Press, Aldershot, [ISBN: 0-859678334].
  • Yudkin, Jeremy. (1989), Music in Medieval Europe, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., [ISBN: 0136081924].
  • Atkinson, Charles M.. (2009), The Critical Nexus: Tone-system, Mode and Notation in Early Medieval Music, Oxford U.P, [ISBN: 9780195148886].
  • Stras, Laurie. (2018), Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara, Cambridge University Press, [ISBN: 9781107154070].
  • Munrow, David. (1976), Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Oxford U.P., London, [ISBN: 0193213214].
  • Perkins, Leeman. (1999), Musc in the Age of the Renaissance, Norton, New York, [ISBN: 0-393-04608-7].
  • Palisca, Claude V.. (1996), Norton Anthology of Western Music Vol 1: Ancient to Baroque, Norton, New York, [ISBN: 0-393-96906-1].
  • Wilson, David Fenwick. (1990), Music of the Middle Ages - an Anthology for Performance and Study, Schirmer, New York, [ISBN: 0-02-872952-8].
  • Wilson, David Fenwick. (1990), Music of the Middle Ages - Style and Structure, Schirmer, New York, [ISBN: 0-02-872951-X].
Supplementary Article/Paper Resources
  • Buckley, Ann. (2000), Music and Musicians in Medieval Irish Society, Early Music, May 2000.
  • Routley, Nicholas. (1985), A practical guide to musica ficta, Early Music, February 1985, p.59-71.
  • Loewe, J. Andreas. (2013), Why do Lutherans sing? Luther, Music and the Gospel in the first Century of the Reformation, Church History, 82: 1 (March 2013).
Other Resources
 
Module Delivered in
Programme Code Programme Semester Delivery
CR_GMUSC_8 Bachelor of Music (Honours) 8 Elective
CR_GMUSC_8 Bachelor of Music (Honours) 6 Elective