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Cursus: MU3V14006
MU3V14006
Early Music History
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeMU3V14006
Studiepunten (EC)7,5
Cursusdoelen
The course teaches students to identify, read, and digest advanced literature about pre-modern music, and trains students in research techniques and methodologies appropriate to pre-modern source materials and musical forms of expression. Course materials  typically are of an interdisciplinary nature and therefore will also open students’ eyes to the potential and relevance of interdisciplinary methodologies for musicological research.   
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Early Music History is part of the sequence 'Historical Musicology' ("verdiepingspakket Historische muziekwetenschap"). The course aims to familiarize students with salient aspects of sonic and music culture in medieval and early modern Europe and early modern colonial empires up to ca. 1800. For this purpose, the course first introduces (a selection of) pre-modern ways of conceptualizing music (e.g., the use of hexachords and the Guidonian hand), corresponding notations, and relevant source types. This is followed by practical applications of these concepts through the examination of one or several selected segments of repertoire in relevant cultural contexts. The typically high level of cultural alterity and interdisciplinarity of the course materials will help expand students' ways how to conceptualize music and musicking in an 'exotic' setting, while also opening their eyes for the necessity and fascination of interdisciplinary and contextual research in so-called 'data-poor' areas of inquiry. Besides students of musicology, this course is also of interest for students who have taken the minors Medieval Studies or Early Modern Studies in combination with a minor in Musicology.

Early exit option for international exchange students
 
Students who are required to return to their home university by the end of December, are allowed to choose an early exit option. Students must always make individual arrangements with the course coordinator. In general, there are two options that can be facilitated:
1. Finishing the course before Christmas break, receiving 5 ECTS for the course.
2. Completing the course by 'distance learning' (extra assignments, papers etc) in the month of January, receiving 7.5 ECTS for the course.
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