2023
History of Ocidental Music
Name: History of Ocidental Music
Code: MUS10827L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Music
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
The Subject promotes a contextualized survey of the main fields of the various chronological periods of Western Music History.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Acquisition of a contextualized understanding of the great currents of the History of Western Music in this period. Development in the ability to question, structure and summarize knowledge. Development of the ability to expose orally and in writing.
Contents
Music in the medieval Occident
1.Origins of the medieval salmody;
2.The rites;
3.The medieval mass;
4.The gregorian chant;
5.The liturgic modes;
6.The "solmização";
7.The early forms of musical notation: the "neumas";
8."Tropos" and sequences;
9.The "tropário" of Winchester;
10.The liturgic drama;
11.The school of St. Martial of Limoges;
12.The "Ars antiqua" -
a) The school of Notre-Dame de Paris;
b) Léonin and Pérotin;
c) Organum;
d) Motete;
e) Conductus;
13.The profane music-
a) The troubadours;
b) The trouvéres;
c) The Minnesänger and Meistersänger;
14.The Ars "nova"-
b) The isorhythmia;
c)The "mensural" notation;
d) The isorhythmic motet;
e) Other forms;
f)Guillaume de Machaut;
g)Profane music in Ars nova;
h) The Ars subtilior;
-The transition to the renaissance
1.The English influence in the Continent;
2.The english discantus and the fauxbourdon;
3 -John Dunstable and Lionel Power
N.B. Other Programmes, covering different periods of WMH, are available, depending on the academic year.
1.Origins of the medieval salmody;
2.The rites;
3.The medieval mass;
4.The gregorian chant;
5.The liturgic modes;
6.The "solmização";
7.The early forms of musical notation: the "neumas";
8."Tropos" and sequences;
9.The "tropário" of Winchester;
10.The liturgic drama;
11.The school of St. Martial of Limoges;
12.The "Ars antiqua" -
a) The school of Notre-Dame de Paris;
b) Léonin and Pérotin;
c) Organum;
d) Motete;
e) Conductus;
13.The profane music-
a) The troubadours;
b) The trouvéres;
c) The Minnesänger and Meistersänger;
14.The Ars "nova"-
b) The isorhythmia;
c)The "mensural" notation;
d) The isorhythmic motet;
e) Other forms;
f)Guillaume de Machaut;
g)Profane music in Ars nova;
h) The Ars subtilior;
-The transition to the renaissance
1.The English influence in the Continent;
2.The english discantus and the fauxbourdon;
3 -John Dunstable and Lionel Power
N.B. Other Programmes, covering different periods of WMH, are available, depending on the academic year.
Teaching Methods
Expositional rendering of the main content, study cases, discussion of the proposed issues, and students? work supervision. A written test is produced at the end of the semester.
Evaluation Regime
1. Continuous Evaluation
Reading and study of several texts and multimedia examples sent, through Moodle, along the semester and participation in classes about the related commentaries and analysis (A-30%)
- 1 oral presentation about a theme in the Programme with a maximum of 30m. (A-30%)
- 1written final test with 2 hours maximum (PE - 40%)
2. Evaluation by final exam
- 1 essay of original synthesis with about 2500 words previously arranged with the teacher (E - 20%).
Evaluation Regime
1. Continuous Evaluation
Reading and study of several texts and multimedia examples sent, through Moodle, along the semester and participation in classes about the related commentaries and analysis (A-30%)
- 1 oral presentation about a theme in the Programme with a maximum of 30m. (A-30%)
- 1written final test with 2 hours maximum (PE - 40%)
2. Evaluation by final exam
- 1 essay of original synthesis with about 2500 words previously arranged with the teacher (E - 20%).
Teaching Staff
- Filipe Santos Mesquita de Oliveira [responsible]