This schedule is subject to change.
Note: This unit is still worth 30% of your final grade. However, I have made some changes to the breakdown of this unit's grading scheme.

TRANSCRIPTION ASSIGNMENT (50% of unit grade):
The major assignment for this unit is a transcription of Antoine Busnoys's A vous sans autre. This is a two-part assignment (outlined in chapters 4, 17 and 21 of Atlas), and you will be working in teams of two.  The deadlines are as follows:
1. Monday, October 30: Transcribing the Notes (Chapter 4; 25% of unit grade)--One member of each team will transcribe the song from a manuscript titled Dijon 517 (p. 46) and the other member will transcribe the song from a manuscript titled the Mellon Chansonnier (p. 47).
2. Monday, November 13: Musica Ficta and Text Underlay (Chapters 17 and 21; 25% of unit grade)--Team members continue to work separately. First, add editorial accidentals to the notes you transcribed; Second, add the text to the notes you transcribed.
During the third unit, we will complete this assignment by comparing the transcriptions made from the two manuscripts.

PREPARATION FOR FINAL PAPER (10% of unit grade):
The main assignment for unit 3 is a 1500-word essay. You have two options:
1. An analysis paper that compares two Italian madrigals with the same text;
2. A research paper based on one of the topics covered in the "Intermedio" chapters of the Atlas text.
By the end of this unit (November 10), I want you to hand in a one-page report that outlines your project.
If you choose option #1 (analysis paper), I want the following in your one-page report: (1) the composers, title, and approximate dates of composition of the two works you will discuss, (2) a translation of the text of the madrigals, and (3) a short bibliography.
If you choose option #2 (research paper), I want the following in your one-page report: (1) a one-to-two-paragraph outline of your topic (e.g., what questions are you trying to answer in your research paper? What do you think your answers might be?), (2) a short bibliography, and (3) some evidence that you have begun to locate the items in your bibliography (e.g., inter-library loan requests, photocopies of the first page of a couple articles, etc.)
Important reminder: In order to graduate, you need at least one analysis paper and one non-analysis paper in your writing portfolio. This requirement might help you decide which option to take for this paper.

TEST #2 (40% of unit grade): See the Test #2 Information Page

CLASS SCHEDULE
Wed., 10/11    Summarizing the Medieval Unit; "The English Sound"
Reading:   Atlas: Chapter 1 "The English Sound" (pp. 3-20),
                Atlas: Chapter 4 "Editing a Chanson: The Notation" (pp. 44-54)
Optional:   Atlas: Chapter 2 "Intermedio 1414-1418" (pp. 21-26)
Listening:  Dunstable: Quam pulchra es [2:44] (Anth. 1; CD3, Track 1)
                Dunstable: Veni sancte spiritus/Veni creator [5:54] (Anth. 4; CD3, Track 2)

Mon., 10/16     Re-TEST; Introduction to Renaissance Notation
Begin:        Notation Assignment

Wed., 10/18     Chansons by Dufay and Binchois
Reading:   Atlas: Chapter 5 "French Secular Song" (pp. 57-76)
Optional:   Atlas: Chapter 6 "Intermedio: 1424-1428" (pp. 77-85)
Listening:  Du Fay: Resvellies vous et faites chiere lye [5:45] (Anth. 11; CD3, Track 3)
                Du Fay: Adieu m'amour, adieu ma joye [5:31] (Anth. 12; CD3, Track 4)
Optional:   Binchois: Dueil angoisseus [8:12] (Anth. 13; CD3, Track 5)

Mon., 10/23    Cantus firmus Masses; More on Notation
Reading:    Atlas: Chapter 9 "The Cyclic Mass and Vespers" (pp. 112-135)
Optional:    Atlas: Chapter 10 "Intermedio: 1453-1454" (pp. 136-142)
Listening:   Du Fay: Se la face ay pale [1:01] (Anth. 18a; CD3, Track 7)
                 Du Fay: Missa Se la face ay pale: Gloria and Sanctus [9:05; 6:24] (Anth. 18b; CD3, Tracks 8-9)

Wed., 10/25    Motets by Dufay; The Nature of Humanism
Reading:    Atlas: Chapter 7 "The Old Motet and the New" (pp. 86-104)
Listening:   Du Fay: Nuper rosarum flores [5:46] (Anth. 14; CD3, Track 6)
Optional:    Du Fay: Ave regina caelorum (III) [7:00] (Anth. 15; LP 661/Tape 2, Side A)

Mon., 10/30   Towards Abstraction; Musica Ficta
DUE:       BUSNOYS NOTATION ASSIGNMENT PART I
Reading:   Atlas: Chapter 11 "Toward Abstraction in Mass and Motet" (pp. 145-167)
                Atlas: Chapter 17 "Editing a Chanson: Musica Ficta" (pp. 238-245)
Optional:   Atlas: Chapter 15 "Intermedio: 1467-1469" (pp. 205-214)
Listening:  Anonymous: L'homme armé [0:37] (CD3, Track 10)
                Busnoys: Missa L'homme armé: Agnus Dei [5:25] (Anth. 21; CD3, Track 11)
                Ockeghem: Missa Prolationum: Kyrie [4:52] (Anth. 24; CD3,Track 12)
                Ockeghem: Missa Fors seulement: Kyrie [3:57] (Anth. 25b; CD4, Track 3)
Optional:   Ockeghem: Missa Prolationum: Sanctus [7:20] (Anth. 24; CD3, Track 13)
                Busnoys: In hydraulis [8:33] (Anth. 23; CD 4, Track 1)
                Ockeghem: Fors seulement [7:08] (Anth. 25a; CD4, Track 2)
                Ockeghem: S'elle m'amera/Petite camusette [4:29] (Anth. 28; CD4, Track 4)

Wed., 11/1    No Class.  Start part 2 of the transcription assignment and study for the test.
Reading:   Atlas: Chapter 21 "Editing a Chanson: Text Underlay" (pp. 286-292)

Mon., 11/6    Motets by Josquin; Text Underlay
Reading:   Atlas: Chapter 18 "Inventions in Style and Transmission" (pp. 249-263)
                Atlas: Chapter 20 "The Virtuoso Motet" (pp. 269-285)
Optional:   Atlas: Chapter 19 "Intermedio: 1492" (pp. 264-268)
Singing:   Busnoys: A vous sans autre
Listening:  Josquin: Ave Maria [4:38] (Anth. 37; CD4, Track 5)
                Josquin or la Rue: Absalon, filimi [4:02] (Anth. 39; CD4, Track 6)
Optional:   Josquin: Miserere mei, Deus [15:19] (Anth. 40; CD4, Track 7)

Wed., 11/8    Masses by Josquin and Obrecht
Reading:   Atlas: Chapter 22 "Continuity/Transformation in the Mass" (pp. 293-324)
Optional:   Atlas: Chapter 23 "Intermedio: 1513-1521" (pp. 325-335)
Listening:  Plainsong: Pange lingua [3:36] (CD4, Track 8)
                Josquin: Missa Pange lingua: Kyrie [2:54] (Anth. 42; CD4, Track 9)
                Obrecht: Missa Fortuna desperata: Credo [5:21] (Anth. 41; LP 145/Tape 2, Side B)
Optional:   Obrecht: Missa Fortuna desperata: Gloria [5:56] (Anth. 41; LP 145/Tape 2, Side B)

Fri., 11/10      DUE: One-page Term Paper Progress Report

Mon., 11/13   DUE: BUSNOYS NOTATION ASSIGNMENT PART II
                       IN CLASS: TEST #2
 

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