Course Description
Summary
This course will look at what Western music was like before it was "classical." Modal, melismatic, expressive underlying ideas and belief systems that are foreign to us today. Pretty exciting. Hopefully you'll find out that your ignorance is vast! But your small knowledge connects to much more of the world than you ever thought possible. And in ways you could not have imagined. Hopefully.
Lecture format on Zoom. Discussion. 1-2 papers. Lots of listening. And listening exams to help you organize the unusual sounds in your mind so you remember them and can find them again later when they drift to the surface and make you curious.
