MUSC 226 - History of Western Music I from 1500-1800

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0

An examination of the relationship between music, sound more broadly, and the courts, churches, and concert halls of early modern Europe. This course considers how music has interacted with other arts, like architecture and visual art, to reflect and shape the cultures that produced these art works. In addition, students develop a critical understanding of the social, economic, and political factors that created the material conditions in which particular artforms flourished (and, in turn, how art may have shaped these material conditions). An ability to read music and/or familiar with some music vocabulary will be helpful though is not required.

Offered: Fall Semester