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Music and Technology Department
Fall 2009/Prof. Durakoglu
Course Syllabus: HMU 101 Music History I
Week 1 Introduction: Music in Early Societies and High Civilizations
Chapter 1: Music in Antiquity
Mesopotamian and Greek Music
Listening: Hymn to Nikkai; Hymn to Apollo; Seikilos Song
Music in the Early Christian Era
Chapter 2: Music in the Early Christian and Byzantine Church
Jewish Synagogue and Liturgy
The Development of Notation
Listening: Salve Regina and Gregorian Chant
Written Assignment 1: Greek Music Theory of Ethos
The Roman Liturgy and Chant
Chapter 3: Sections of Mass, Tropes, and Sequences
Listening: Missa in Dominica Resurrections; Ecce Peter
Week 4 Quiz 1: Development of Music in Antiquity and early Christianity
Song and Dance Music in the Middle Ages
Medieval Instruments and Early Organum
Litening: Examples of Dance Music and Songs
Week 5 Written Assignment 2: Development of Music from Gregorian Chant to Organum during Early Christianity
Chapter 5: Ars Antiqua and Motet
Notre Dame Polyphony: Leonin and Perotin
Listening: Music of Perotin and Leonin
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French and Italian Music in the 14 th
Century
Ars Nova and Isorhythm; Guillaume de Machaut
Listening: Garitt Gallus; Messe de Notre Dame
Week 8
Written Assignment 3: Medieval Composers’ Music
Transition to the Renaissance
Chapter 7: Music during the Renaisance
Guillaume de Fay and John Dunstable
Mid-Term Exam: Music during Early and Late Medieval Periods
Chapter 9: Franco-Flemish Composers: Ockeghem and Desprez
The Rise of Regional Styles and Listening Examples

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Written Assignment 4: Listening and Analysis of
Franco-Flemish Composers’s Music
Reformation: Music in the Lutheran Church
Counter-Reformation: Palestrina and Orlando de Lassus
Listening: Music of Palestrina and Lassus
Madrigal and Secular Song in the 16 th
Century
Chapter 11: Italian Madrigal and its Impact
The Rise of Instrumental Music
Listening: Examples of Madrigals
Written Assignment 5: Music during the Reformation and
Counter-Reformation – Comparative Analysis
Chapter 13: The Baroque Era: Stylistic and Structural Elements
Baroque Vocal Music: Monody and Opera
Claudio Monteverdi and Alessandro Scarlatti
Baroque Vocal Music: Oratorio, Passion, Chorale
Baroque Instrumental Music: Forms and Styles
Chapter 16: The French and English Baroque Music
Listening: Examples of Baroque Instrumental Music
Class Presentations: Last Assignment
Masters of Baroque Music: Vivaldi, Telemann, Rameau, Handel
Chapter 18: Musical Forms and Performance Styles
Class Presentations: Last Assignment
The Music of Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)
George Frederic Handel and Messiah
FINAL EXAM