Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Substitute(s)
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course will present a panorama of the history of musical notation since Greek antiquity till the Renaissance, with a focus on the invention of western musical writing in the Middle Ages.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Main figures of theoretician, schools of notation and musical conceptions.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Fundaments of the current theory of music. Ability to "read" music.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Seminar. Each course includes a lecture section and a part of tutorials, case studies on historical documents.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Face-to-face.
Recommended or required readings
Marie-Noël COLETTE, Marielle POPIN et Philippe VENDRIX, Histoire de la notation du Moyen Age à la Renaissance, Paris, Minerve, 2003, 206 p.
David HILEY, Western plainchant, Oxford Clarendon Press, 1993.
After each course, the teaching materials are available through a link to a dedicated website.
Assessment methods and criteria
Written final exam: a paper essay, prepared by the student's research.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Seminar given by Daniel Saulnier