Compositorial techniques before 1600 (module I) 3106-1TEKO-KON

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Term 2024Z:

1. Introduction
2. Chant-based cantus firmus
3. Song-based cantus firmus.
4. Hexachord-based cantus firmus.
5. Multiple cantus firmus
6. Parody technique
7. Canon.

Term 2025Z:

1. Introduction
2. Chant-based cantus firmus
3. Song-based cantus firmus.
4. Hexachord-based cantus firmus.
5. Multiple cantus firmus
6. Parody technique
7. Canon.

Prerequisites (description)

RENAISSANCE COMPOSITION: FROM A TECHNIQUE TO A SYMBOL The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the world's musicological literature on Renaissance compositional techniques. On this basis, various types of using them will be discussed, as well as possible ways to give music a symbolic meaning.The starting point is groups of works distinguished according to their dominant construction technique.

Course coordinators

Agnieszka Leszczyńska

Type of course

elective courses
obligatory courses

Mode

Classroom

Learning outcomes

Knowledge of selected issues in the field of Renaissance composition techniques in terms of the most eminent European and American musicologists.

Assessment criteria

The condition for receiving a credit is attendance at classes (one absence is allowed) and active participation in them, including reporting on a previously agreed topic and submitting a written version of the presentation. Classes end with a test.

Bibliography

Term 2024Z:

- B. J. Blackburn, The Virgin in the Sun: Music and Image for a Prayer Attributed to Sixtus IV, “Journal of the Royal Musical Association” 1999 nr 2
- M. J. Bloxam, Text and Context: Obrecht’s Missa de Sancto Donatiano in Its Social and Ritual Landscape, „Journal of the Alamire Foundation” 2011 nr 1
- W. Elders, Symbolic Scores. Studies in the Music of Renaissance, Leiden 1994
- A. Fiumara, "Escobedo's Missa Philippus Rex Hispanie: A Spanish Descendent of Josquin's
- J. Haar, A Wedding Mass by Lasso, “The Journal of Musicology” 1999 nr 1
- M. Long, Symbol and Ritual in Josquin's Missa Di Dadi, „Journal of the American Musicological Society” 1989 nr 1
- K. Schiltz, Music and Riddle Culture in the Renaissance, Cambridge 2015
- M. Steib, A Composer Looks at His Model: Polyphonic Borrowing in Masses from the Late Fifteenth Century, „Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis” 1996 nr 1

Term 2025Z:

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