College Bulletin 2024-2025 
    
    Dec 14, 2024  
College Bulletin 2024-2025

MUSI 020. Medieval and Renaissance Music


Cross listed with MDST 020  
A repertory based course that discusses the history of music in Europe from the beginnings of musical notation to the birth of opera. (c. 800 - c. 1600). Mus 20 considers this varied repertory through lenses of race, gender, and identity, nationalism and post-colonial theory. Topics include musical rituals, music and magic, music and Elizabethan global politics, music, piety, & sacrilege, sexual discourse in music, relationships between music and architecture, development of musical instruments, and history of theory.
Prerequisite: MUSI 011 or permission of the instructor.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Spring 2025. Blasina.
Catalog chapter: Music  
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music


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