Music 1293 Renaissance & Baroque Music

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[ Music 1293 Introduction ]

Instructor: Dr. Gordon J. Callon
Office: Denton Hall, Room 168
Telephone: 585-1420
E-Mail: gordon.callon@acadiau.ca | gcallon@istar.ca

Office Hours and Teaching Schedules (1999-2000 academic year) Autumn; Winter

Course Times: Monday/Wednesday/Friday, 10:30-11:30 (Slot 3), Winter Term

Class e-mail list: MUSI1293X2@acadiau.ca

Course Content & Procedure:

• Classes: Music 1293 is a standard survey of Renaissance and Baroque Music History. Due to the extensive time period covered, the class is presented mainly as a series of lectures, with class discussion.
• WWW Project: Every student must complete a WWW Project. [WWW Project Topics]

  Online Worksheets

• Worksheets:
  At the beginning of the term and following at two-week intervals, each student must complete the Music Library Introductory Worksheets. These Worksheets provide a subject-specific introduction to the University Library and its resources for the study of Music History.
  The Worksheets are due two weeks from the day each is assigned in class.
  The Worksheets will be online, for students to complete online as electronic forms. This will enable students to begin the Worksheets before each is assigned, if they wish.
  Topics of the worksheets will include:
  1. The Library Catalogue.
     
  2. Iter.
  3. RILM.
  4. Principal Music Reference Books.
  5. Use of the Internet in Music History.
  6. Collected Editions.
• Quizzes: There are at least three quizzes during the term. These quizzes will include listening: Identification and discussion of musical examples from recordings. Musical examples will also be presented as scores. (There is no "mid-term exam".)
• Final Examination: There is a Final Examination. The date and time of the Examination is set by the Registrar's Office. As on the quizzes, the Final Examination will include identification and discussion of musical examples from recordings (listening test) and in the form of scores. (The listening portion of the examination is normally 50%.)

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WWW Project Topics

WWW Project:

WWW Project are due (must be completed) one week before the last day of classes.
• Each student must complete one WWW Project.
• WWW Project must contain adequate documentation (footnotes or hypernotes [links to notes]); and must have an adequate bibliography.
• A WWW Project drawn only from dictionaries and encyclopedias is not acceptable.
• The research for the WWW Project must show evidence of a familiarity with various types of sources.
• Each WWW Project normally will be set up as a WWW site. In certain cases, students may submit their project in electronic form: on diskette, on CD-ROM, or by e-mail as attachments. (All should be prepared using HTML). (Due to the danger of macro viruses, Microsoft Word for Windows format is not accepted in electronic form.)
• Students may (and probably will) substitute topics others than those listed. If so, alternate topics must be presented to the professor in writing before the topics are assigned to individual students in class. Students must be prepared to demonstrate that the resources to carry out the substitute topics are available, and to plan the course of action in preparing the topic.
• WWW Projects may be written in French. However, if in French, the vocabulary must be totally consistent in that language; i.e., all terminology, names, etc., must be those normally used in French scholarship. A hybrid of English and French terminology will not be accepted.

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Grading:

Important Note: Students must have the anthologies of musical examples for Music 1293 in order to complete Quizzes and the Final Examination. The anthologies must be brought to each Quiz and to the Examination.

Because there are class Quizzes, there is no mid-term as such.

Attendance is not formally recorded; however, students are responsible for all material covered in class, and if absent are assumed by the professor to be acquiring the knowledge and skills elsewhere. Absent students will not receive assistance from the professor to make up for their absence. Attendance at all quizzes and examinations is required.

Required Books:

• Grout, Donald Jay, and Claude V. Palisca. A History of Western Music. Fifth edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996.
• Baroque Music. Edited by G.J. Callon. [Second Edition.] Wolfville: School of Music, Acadia University, 2000. [contents]
  • [Important Note: Students must have this anthology in order to complete Quizzes and the Final Examination. This anthology must be brought to each Quiz and to the Examination.]

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