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Penetrating the Past: The Aesthetics of Complexity in 14th-Century Music | |
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MUMH 6020, Medieval Music, Fall 2003 Thursdays 6:30-9:30 p.m., Music 295 |
Course Description: One of the most remarkable developments in music of the fourteenth century is its apparently increasing complexity. In fact the last decades witnessed such unprecedented treatment of rhythm, texture, and dissonance that the terms "mannerism" and more recently "ars subtilior" were coined to characterize them as a distinct epoch in the history of music. This seminar will examine this phenomenon in order to place it in the context of 14th century culture. Consequently it will be broadly concerned with strategies for penetrating the past as history.
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