History of Music: 1300-1600
Code
711021024
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências Musicais
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
David Cranmer
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
O aluno deve:
a) Adquirir conhecimentos sobre os contextos históricos, ideológicos, sociais, culturais e institucionais do período 1300 a 1600, e sobre como a música se insere nos mesmos;
b) Adquirir a noção de tradições composicionais, no meio das quais se destacam determinados indivíduos;
c) Ser capaz de traçar a evolução dos principais géneros musicais deste período, quer instrumentais, quer vocais;
d) Tomar consciência de práticas musicais relevantes na interpretação da música desta época;
d) Ganhar experiência de uma investigação individual livre mas orientada, em termos de problematização, metodologia e conhecimento bibliográfico.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
A broad-based approach to the History of Music from 1300 to 1600, organised in 4 cycles of lessons (contexts & places, key-figures, sources & practices, genres):
1) Contexts and places: the historical and cultural context, the Church (including the Papal Schism, Reformation & Counter-Reformation), dynasties and courts, cities with significant musical traditions;
2) Key-composers: Machault, Landini, Ciconia, Dunstable, Dufay, Binchois, Ockeghem, Josquin des Près, Obrecht, Morales, Tallis, Byrd, Palestrina, Lassus, Vitoria, G. Gabrieli;
3) Musical genres: Masses, motets, madrigals, chansons, the emergence of instrumental genres - dances and others;
4) Sources & practices: manuscripts & the first century of printed polyphonic music, notation (theory & practice), interpretation problems;
5) An individual research project encourages students to focus on an area of their choice from within the period (e. g. a city or institution), with three lessons devoted to aspects of its preparation.
Bibliography
Atlas, A. (1998). Renaissance Music. New York: W.W. Norton.
Cranmer, D. (2007). Cantate Domino: introdução à música sacra. Lisboa: Paulus Editora.
Fenlon, I. (Ed.) (1989). Man and Music: The Renaissance. London: MacMillan (Man & Music).
Hoppin, R. (1978). Medieval Music. New York: W.W. Norton. (Trad. espanhola.: Hoppin, R. (2000). La música medieval. Madrid: Akal).
McKinnon, J. (Ed.) (1989). Antiquity and the Middle Ages. London: MacMillan (Man & Music).
Taruskin, R. (2010). Oxford History of Western Music, Vol. 1: The Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Teaching method
Expositive lessons, organised in four cycles (contexts, key-figures, practices and genres). Listening to musical examples constitutes a fundamental element, encouraging students to recognise stylistic characteristics of the music they hear. Collective and individual support lessons for the individual research project.
Evaluation method
Continuous assessment based on the students effort: made up of a written test (40%), an individual research project (40%), and classroom participation together with two reflective reports on this subject (20%).