MUSIC 4633

Early-Music Lab

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2022-2023.

This course will provide its members with an in-depth ensemble experience in the performance practices of European music of the Baroque era (1600-1750). Playing pieces from different styles and periods of that era, the students will acquire new skills that will enhance their musicianship and develop a new, practice-based historical understanding of this important period of Western music history. Historical sources, treatises, and other primary accounts will be discussed, and the students will be able to play on instruments set up the way they were in the seventeenth- and eighteenth centuries. The aim is to open up the instrumental resources, techniques, and ideas available to musicians and inspire curiosity toward the performance practices of all periods in music history.

When Offered Spring.

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