MUS 3210Western Music History I

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Prerequisite(s): MUS 1130 with a C- or above This course is intended for music majors. It comprises a comprehensive survey of Western music history and musical style through the examination of recordings and musical scores. This course traces the origins of Western music in Ancient Greek civilization, and explores the development of polyphony and rhythmic notation in the Middle Ages. An exploration of musical developments and ideas in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries of the Renaissance follows, and the course concludes with study of the musical Baroque era, spanning roughly 1600 to 1750.