Music History I

Surveys music chronologically from the Middle Ages to the present. Topics include chant and secular song in the middle ages, polyphonic music from its beginning through the thirteenth century, Ars nova, Renaissance music of the low countries, the music of reformation, music of the early baroque, Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Romanticism, Opera from the early 20th century. (This course serves to substitute for MU222 Music History II, for students concentrating in modern music).