MusL 242 Gateway Page

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Basic course information for Spring 2005:

MusL 242: Music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
TR 11:00-12:15, Blair Rm 2190

Instructor: Dr. Cyrus

Office: Blair Rm 2104 (Campus Box 6320 Sta. B, Vanderbilt Univ.)

Phone msg 322-7651; home phone: 646-2516

E-mail address: Cynthia.Cyrus@vanderbilt.edu

Note: I welcome your questions and comments, both in class and outside of class. It is easiest to contact me by e-mail; I usually answer e-mail messages within 48 hours.

• MUSL 242 syllabus
• study guide
• books and other resources
• rough chronological outline
• Death/judgement day images--page 1, page 2, page 3
• links to early music sites
• Student Web Projects from Fall semester, 2003
  • Seven Centuries: A Fast-Forward Course Through the Development of the Motet by John Sands and Scott Seaton
  • The 15th and 16th Century L'homme Armé Masses by Christina Thompson, Erika Olson, and John Concklin
  • An Interview With...A Melody!! (the L'homme arm&eacute) by Cameron Rau and Tara Burns
  • Doulce Memoire: The Stairway of the 16th century by Charles Davidson
  • Josquin's Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae by Joseph Viviano
  • Who is Joseph of the Meadows? by Adrianna L. Bond and Crystal Jennings
  • Josquin or Not Josquin: That is the Question by Preetha Narayanan
  • Authenticity of Musical Performance by Zach Miskin & Gene Back
  • A survey of the life and works of Orlando Gibbons by Gerard Raiti
  • Cover Your Ears!! Debauchery in the 14th Century Italian Court by Amanda Dickes
  • Isabella Andreini - THE Renaissance Woman by Joanna Kaczmarska
  • The Concerto Delle Donne by Liza Barley
  • Gender Roles and/or Women in Music in Medieval Times by Alicia E. Enstrom, Bonnie S. Brown, Rose L. Rutledge, Sarah E. Williams
    • Gender Roles, an Overview by Alicia E. Enstrom
    • Women as Composers by Bonnie Brown
    • Women as Patrons by Sarah Williams
    • Renaissance Women as Performers by Rosemary Rutledge
• Student Web Projects from Spring semester, 2003
  • Recreating the Music of the Past: Performance and Authenticity by Austin Bauman
  • Authenticity in Performance: How to perform like Beethoven, the Beatles or Britney Spears in 30 days or less by Dan Schwartz and Catherine Nelson
  • Isabella d'Este--Her life and Her Music by Jennifer McNeil and Ania Lipowska
  • Medieval Women Through Music by Liz Dannemiller
  • Women and social life in the 16th century by Marie Neari and Erin Kemp
  • The 17th Century Ponderings of a Well-Bred Young Lady by Carrie Stillwell
  • Josquin and the music of the Renaissance by Douglas MacMillan
  • Dodecachordon: when 8 modes don't cut it any more by Ben Skinner
  • Apathetic: a page about Tinctoris' high-falutin', Evolved and Tested Ideas and Conjectures by Michael Krewson
  • Nicola Vincentino by Liz Vennum
  • The Great Motet Page by Miles Barr, Lisa Bryington, Catherine Bennion, David Repking. Web page addresses the style of Busnois, Josquin, Gombert and Lasso.
  • What is a Madrigal? by Abigail Mace
  • Musical Patronage and Politics by Joanna Felder
  • Keyboard Music in Elizabethan England by Angela Mace
• Student Web Projects from Spring semester, 2002
  • Martin Luther, Johann Walther and the Wittenbergisch Geistlich Gesangbuch by Krystal Grant
  • The Musical Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella by Kate Grindon
  • Trobairitz by Elizabeth Hale
  • Martin Luther: Music and God by John Koon
  • Chant Explained by Wesley Lackey
  • Monastics and Music by Lin Ong
  • Patronage of the Early Renaissance: Isabella d'Este by Stephanie Trautwein
  • Shakespeare and His Musical Purpose by Adrienne Wager
  • Hildegard von Bingen in Today's World by Crystal Wallis
• Student Web Projects from Spring semester, 2000; note that many of the former contributions have faded from the web because of the university's policy of purging files upon students' graduations.
  • History of Carols: From Pagan Dances to Christmas Songs by Arielle Rebecca Helmick
  • Party Like It's 1499 by Samuel Kai
  • Origins of Tuning by John Minor
• Student Web Projects from Fall semester, 1999; note that many of the former contributions have faded from the web because of the university's policy of purging files upon students' graduations.
  • Religion: A Best Seller? by Susannah Osmond
• Student Web Projects from Spring semester, 1999; note that many of the former contributions have faded from the web because of the university's policy of purging files upon students' graduations.
  • Music of Braveheart: Historic or Hollywood by Erin Mulligan
  • 20th-Century Perspectives on the 14th Century by Lee Ann O'Neal
• Student Web Projects from Fall semester, 1998:
  • Ars Nova: A Time of Cultural Change by Evan Barr
  • Renaissance Dance by Sarah Boronow
  • Guillaume Dufay by Allison Frazier and Julia Hampton
  • Lorenzo de' Medici and Florence in the 15th Century" by Robin Greenly
  • Charlemagne, King of the Franks by Taylor Jones
  • The Venetian School by Justin Klotz
  • Shakespeare and His Music by Stephanie Lackey
  • Thomas Morley by Anne Leiter
  • The Courts of Burgundy by Allegra Meis
  • The Instruments of the English Broken Consort in the Renaissance by Jennifer Peecher
  • Roman de Fauvel: A Pain in the Ars Nova by Mike Plotkin
  • The Codex Calixtinus by Sean Raleigh
  • The Musical Court of Lucrezia Borgia by Emily Robertson
  • A Sixteenth Century Madrigal By Any Other Name... by Jeffrey Sheehan
  • The Effects of Martin Luther on Music by Courtenay Shipley
  • Hayne van Ghizeghem by Andrew Westerhaus
  • Notre Dame Organum by Brooke Willis
  • Music in John Marston's The Malcontent by Peter Winterburn
• Student Web Projects from Spring semester, 1998:
  • St. Cecilia: Patron Saint of Church Music by Bethany Jenkins
  • Troubadours (uses frames!) by Zachary Crockett
  • Perotin by Chris Hughlett
  • The Virgin Mary as Portrayed in Medieval Music by Kristina Lobenhofer
  • Egeria by Kim Crawford
  • Josquin des Prez by Mike Passaris
  • Notker Balbulus and the Sequence by Mona Patel
  • Guillaume Dufay: The Man and His Music by Sean Page
• Student Web Projects from Fall semester, 1997:
  • Guillaume Dufay by Erica Land
  • Orlando di Lasso by Kathryn Janssen
  • Guillaume de Machaut by Evan Dozier
  • Notker the Stammerer by Alicia Walker
  • St. John the Baptist by Faith Shaw
  • St. Mark the Evangelist by Allison Harvey
• Student Web Projects from Spring semester, 1997:
  • The Monastery of St. Gall by Solange Guillaume
  • Medieval Music of Santiago de Compostela by Laura Gregory
  • The Musical Influence of Eleanor of Aquitaine by John Swicegood
  • Perotin and Notre Dame Organum by Joseph Allen Sifferd
  • Machaut by Valerie Kremer
  • John Dunstable by J.C. Parker
  • Guillaume Dufay: A Bridge to the Renaissance by Tyson Prince
  • Margaret of Austria by Jennifer Wade
  • Thomas Morley and the English Madrigal by Esteban Giron
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