Analysis of Early Music

MUSIC 561S

Selected areas of 'pre-tonal' music and various analytical methodologies that have been developed to understand them. Content changes, from semester to semester and with different instructors. Possible areas covered include plainchant, trouvère monophony, Machaut, Fifteenth-century polyphony, modal music of the Renaissance, early seventeenth-century repertories.

Notes

Instructor: Thomas Brothers, tdb@duke.edu; Roseen Giles, roseen.giles@duke.edu

Curriculum Codes
  • ALP