7.05.23 

Intro (Syllabus overview, music vocabulary, engaging with sources, instruments & Voices)

7.12.23 (assignment 1 due via Blackboard alongside Discussion Board post)

Weekly Discussion Board Prompt

Introduce yourself to me and your classmates on the week’s Blackboard discussion board by writing 2-4 paragraphs about what sort of music you enjoy or find interesting. Describe a playlist that you have and write about some of the genres and artists, then pick one song to write a more detailed sonic analysis of, incorporating some of the ways of listening critically to/talking about music that we’ve talked about in class (and reference the vocabulary handout).

Assignment 1:

Hildegard Letters

Vocabulary handout

Hildegard von Bingen, German Benedictine abbess and polymath (1098-1179)

(and microgenre Bardcore)

Listen:

• “O Virtus Sapientiae” (Hildegard von Bingen)
• Symphonia et Ordo virtutum (Hildegard von Bingen) Part of recording available alongside manuscript here and here.
• “Bad Romance” (Lady Gaga), “Bad Romance” (Hildegard von Blingin’), and “Lady Gaga Fugue” (arr. Larry Moore)

Hildegard:

Read:

Brief visual collection of musical marginalia

• Selected Hildegard Letters