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MUSC 398 Modal Counterpoint Units: 3.00
Study, through rule-based writing, of 16th century modal counterpoint, from two-part species exercises to free counterpoint in Renaissance style.
Learning Hours: 114 (36 Lecture, 78 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite MUSC 293 or permission of the School.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze and label a passage of Renaissance music in terms of mode, motivic repetition, cadence, and other elements of form, and to thereby parse music and locate important moments of articulation.
- Compose contrapuntal music 'from scratch' in the style of Renaissance sacred and secular music.
- Improvise a melody against a cantus firmus with the voice, thereby building skills in creating improvised accompaniment to lead melodic lines.