MUSI 115 — Music History I
This course explores the development of Western music from Greco -Roman antiquity to the mid - eighteenth century of the common era. Special attention will be paid to aural recognition of musical styles and authorship, to the role of culture and related arts in understanding the music of a given period, and to the intrinsic aural elements which, along with human creativity, fostered the evolutio n of musical forms and styles. Because music is about sound, students will listen to significant selections from the repertoires of the various time periods under consideration and read about the music and the times in the assigned texts. Prerequisite(s): none Corequisite(s): none