AMU 212 - Bach, Handel, and their Predecessors

Course Units: 1.0

This course is a study of music composed between about 1600 and 1750. Among the topics that we explore are: recently discovered compositions by underrepresented figures such as Manuel del Surmaya of Mexico; works influenced by architecture; connections between various styles of opera and the modern-day musical; the impact of dance rhythms on vocal and instrumental music; and the role of improvisation on the one hand and strict counterpoint on the other in the development of music from the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. CQ: WAC-R, JCAD, JCHF, JLIT, ISP: REL