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MUSC 210 Western Art Music: Crusades to Colonialism Units: 3.00
An examination of the styles, genres, composers, and contexts of Western art music between ca. 1000 and 1800 CE. Exploring the historical and historiographical trajectory of Western music in global and colonial context, we will continue to build skills to critically analyze musical works and connect their production with social and cultural contexts.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (MUSC 103/3.0 or MUTH 110/3.0) and (MUSC 104/3.0 or MUSC 105/3.0 or MUSC 191/6.0 or MUSC 192/3.0).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and describe sonic, stylistic, and socio-cultural features of European musics between 1000 and 1800 CE.
- Explain how music relates to the changing tides of history up to 1800, and place European music history between 1000 and 1800 in a globally entangled context.
- Recognize and compare the history and historiography of canonic Western music.
- Continue to develop skills to research (find music scholarship), read critically, and write insightfully about music.
- Discuss a wide range of early music compositions or genres in relation to historical dynamics of power and patronage, deliberate and historiographical acts of silencing, the body, physical materials, and networks of influence between people and their ideas.