Music History Classical Music
Module code
M-FT-MHSC
Curricular domain
Community
Credits
2
Group size
All first-year CFT students, plus students of J&P enrolled as elective
Number of course weeks
20
Class duration
One 60-minute lesson per week
Total contact hours
20 hours
Study load
36 hours
Form / content / level
Prerequisites
Admitted to ArtEZ Bachelor Composition for Film and Theatre, or Jazz & Pop.
Competencies
Aims
Developing a broad understanding of classical music as well as the analytic skill to identify music based on its instrumentation.
Relation to other modules
Related to the main subject course (both involve musical analysis).
Content
- Middle Ages (600-1400)
- Stylistic change 1: monophonic to polyphonic (900)
- Stylistic change 2: Ars Nova (1320)
- Renaissance (1400-1600)
- Stylistic change 3: New Sweetness (1430)
- Baroque (1600-1750)
- Stylistic change 4: Monody (1600)
- Stylistic change 5: Instrumental Music (1600)
- Classical Music (1750-1815)
- Stylistic change 6: Galant to Gelehrt (1740)
- Modern Times (1908)
- Stylistic change 7: Atonality (1908)
Mode(s) of instruction
Frontal workshops and tutorial presentations that, depending on the composition of the group, take place entirely on-campus, entirely online or in a combination of both, i.e., that there are attendees both physically in the classroom and virtually via a screen. Online attendees communicate by seeing, talking and listening to each other and the on-campus attendees equally. The teacher has access to a whiteboard, application sharing, desktop sharing and document sharing and can hand this privilege to any other participants.
Apart from the video conference a high quality stereo audio stream is open at the same time via source connect. That way students and instructor can listen to music from any source of the group and talk about it simultaneously.
All online lessons are recorded and though available for students later on.
Material & Tools
General Readers, handouts, audio, images.
Student activity
n/a
Examination and assessment
Mode(s) of assessment
Exam at the end of the module.
Criteria
The student should have mastered the elements described under Aims.
Pass requirements
The student has completed this module if being awarded a minimum grade of 5.5.
Examination procedure
Summative assessment based on written exam at the end of the course.
Tests conducted online are valid only if it is done without interruption. The assessor will decide whether or not the test was valid.
Resit options
Module summary
In this module the student develops a broad understanding of classical music as well as the analytic skill to identify music based on its instrumentation.