Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- OT-ANG17-390.15
- Title
- Elective Specialisation: A Cultural History of English Music: from the Tudors to the Hanoverians
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- By providing an insight into music, students are introduced to the history, society and culture of 16th -18th-century England.
- Course content
- The course will explore some important chapters of English music between the 16th and 18th centuries, with special emphasis on vocal music and the choral tradition. The impact of the reformation, music in Shakespeare's plays, musical life under the Stuarts, the rise of the Italian opera and its implications as well as Handel's oratorios will be examined in their cultural contexts.
- Assessment method
- In-class tests (based on the material of the classes). Evaluation: contribution to discussions, (presentation when applicable) and tests.
- Bibliography
- Recommended reading: · Fenlon, Ian and Richard Wistreich, editors. The Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music. Cambridge University Press, 2019. · Carter, Tim, and John Butt, editors. The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music. Cambridge University Press, 2005. · DelDonna, Anthony R., and Pierpaolo Polzonetti, editors. The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera. Cambridge University Press, 2009.