Program Requirements
The Minor in Early Music Performance offers an opportunity for B.Mus. students to learn the elements of early music performance practice, and to play an early music instrument or to sing early music.
Required Courses (3 credits)
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MUIN 272 Performance Minor Examination 1
Overview
Practical Instrument : Assessment of student's progress in the practical area.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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MUPP 381 Topics in Performance Practice (3 credits)
Overview
Performance Practice : An overview of the techniques, methods, and problems of historical performance. Topics covered include theoretical matters involving source material, treatises, organology, 17th-century views of rhetoric and emotion, 18th-century composition methods, rhythmic interpretation, embellishment and ornamentation, tuning and temperament, and basso continuo.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
3 hours
Restriction: Open to Early Music students and those interested in modern performance
Complementary Courses (15 credits)
6 credits from the following:
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MUEN 572 Cappella Antica (2 credits)
Overview
Ensemble : An ensemble of 8 to 12 voices specializing in early music. N.B. This ensemble may substitute as a Basic Ensemble in programs that specify Choral Ensemble, with Departmental approval.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Nadler, Rona (Fall) Nadler, Rona (Winter)
4 hours
Prerequisite: Audition.
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MUEN 573 Baroque Orchestra (2 credits)
Overview
Ensemble : Open to singers and instrumentalists, this ensemble specializes in chamber music primarily of the Baroque era.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Bandy, Dorian (Fall) Bandy, Dorian (Winter)
4 hours
Prerequisites: Audition
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MUEN 580 Early Music Ensemble (1 credit)
Overview
Ensemble : An ensemble of 4-6 vocalists and instrumentalists which performs music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Ventura, Dorothéa; Bandy, Dorian; Bergeron, Sylvain; Jennejohn, Matthew; Brault, Olivier; La Rotta, Esteban; Lauzer, Vincent; Frey, Elinor; Putterman, Mika (Fall)
Prerequisite: Audition. Prerequisite or corequisite for keyboard players: MUPG 272.
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MUPD 560 Music Information and Research Skills (1 credit)
Overview
Music Professional Development : Introduction to music information and research skills, including navigation of music information systems and tools, finding and evaluating online and physical resources, and documenting research through appropriate citations; introduction to writing performance-related content (e.g., program/liner notes, grant proposals).
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Reyes, Christopher (Fall)
Prerequisites: MUHL 286 and one 300-level MUHL or MUPP course
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MUPG 272D1 Continuo (2 credits) *
Overview
Performance : An historically-oriented study of the principles of figured-bass. The student will realize at sight elementary bass patterns. Standard idioms from historical treatises will be introduced.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Miller, Elizaveta (Fall)
2 hours
Prerequisites: MUTH 150 and permission of instructor.
Students must register for both MUPG 272D1 and MUPG 272D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both MUPG 272D1 and MUPG 272D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Enrolment limited to 6.
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MUPG 272D2 Continuo (2 credits) *
Overview
Performance : See MUPG 272D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Miller, Elizaveta (Winter)
Prerequisite: MUPG 272D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both MUPG 272D1 and MUPG 272D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
2 hours
Enrolment limited to 6.
* must be taken by Harpsichord students
3 credits from the following:
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MUHL 366 The Era of the Fortepiano (3 credits)
Overview
Music History and Literature : Survey of the repertoire for keyboard 1750-1850: the instruments, Empfindsamkeit, gallant style, London, Paris, Vienna, the Czech school, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, sonatas, variations, character pieces, "high" and "low" salon music, virtuosos and the virtuoso repertoire, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, early Liszt.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Bandy, Dorian (Fall)
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MUHL 377 Baroque Opera (3 credits)
Overview
Music History and Literature : History of opera from its origins in the musical, literary, and philosophical models available to the Florentine Camerata to the end of the baroque. The development of opera will be studied from the perspective of artistic style and in the light of historical, political, social, and economic conditions.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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MUHL 380 Medieval Music (3 credits)
Overview
Music History and Literature : The medieval style - an intensive study of one or more selected topics from the repertoire. Possible subjects include liturgical chant, Notre Dame, the medieval motet, secular developments, and instrumental literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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MUHL 381 Renaissance Music (3 credits)
Overview
Music History and Literature : Sacred and secular musical genres of the 15th and 16th Centuries. Various phases of imitative practice, cantus firmus and parody techniques. The emergence of homophonic textures in peripheral areas of the repertoire. Selected problems in the fields of theory, bibliography and aesthetics.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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MUHL 382 Baroque Music (3 credits)
Overview
Music History and Literature : A detailed examination of several selected areas of Baroque music. Topics will be drawn from different geographical regions (e.g., Italy, France, Germany, etc.) and encompass church, chamber and theatre music, as well as performance practice. Each topic will be related to general musical developments of the period.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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MUHL 383 Classical Music (3 credits)
Overview
Music History and Literature : The period covered will be from approximately 1740-1828, from the schools of the Italian keyboard composers, opera buffa and seria, and composers centred at Mannheim, Paris, London, Berlin and Vienna, through the Viennese Classic period of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, to the death of Schubert.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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MUHL 395 Keyboard Literature before 1750 (3 credits)
Overview
Music History and Literature : The solo repertoire for organ, harpsichord, and clavichord from 1400 to 1750: intabulation, cantus firmus treatment, indigenous keyboard genres, German organ literature, French harpsichord repertoire.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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MUHL 591D1 Paleography (1.5 credits)
Overview
Music History and Literature : The theory and practice of musical transcription for the period 1100 to 1600. Black modal notation, Franconian notation, French and Italian Ars Nova notation, Mannerism, white mensural notation, proportions, and lute and keyboard tablatures will be studied.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
1.5 hours
Prerequisites: MUHL 286
Corequisites: MUTH 250 or MUCO 241, AND MUSP 241 or MUJZ 214
Normally alternates with MUHL 529
Students must register for both MUHL 591D1 and MUHL 591D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both MUHL 591D1 and MUHL 591D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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MUHL 591D2 Paleography (1.5 credits)
Overview
Music History and Literature : See MUHL 591D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: MUHL 591D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both MUHL 591D1 and MUHL 591D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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MUTH 202 Modal Counterpoint 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Music Theory and Analysis : Polyphonic techniques of the Renaissance period studied through analysis of works by Palestrina and others and through written exercises in two to three voices.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Neidhofer, Christoph (Fall)
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MUTH 204 Tonal Counterpoint 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Music Theory and Analysis : The contrapuntal techniques of Baroque composers studied through detailed technical analysis of their works and through written exercises in strict style.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Biamonte, Nicole (Fall)
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MUTH 302 Modal Counterpoint 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Music Theory and Analysis : Continuation of Modal Counterpoint I. Study of more advanced techniques through further analysis and written exercises in three or more voices.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
- MUTH 304 Tonal Counterpoint 2 (3 credits)
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MUTH 426 Topics in Early Music Analysis (3 credits)
Overview
Music Theory and Analysis : Music from before 1700 is analyzed using recently developed techniques as well as materials gathered from treatises contemporaneous with the music. The implications of analysis for performance are considered.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Schubert, Peter N (Fall)
6 credits from the following (for Voice students only):
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MUIN 302 Early Music Minor Repertoire Coaching 1 (1.5 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument : Coaching sessions on early music repertoire.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Ventura, Dorothéa; Smith Bessette, Tracy; Nadler, Rona (Fall)
Prerequisite: Admission to the Early Music Minor by audition
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MUIN 303 Early Music Minor Repertoire Coaching 2 (1.5 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument : Coaching sessions on early music repertoire.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Smith Bessette, Tracy (Fall) Ventura, Dorothéa; Smith Bessette, Tracy; Nadler, Rona (Winter)
Prerequisite: MUIN 302
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MUIN 304 Early Music Minor Repertoire Coaching 3 (1.5 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument : Coaching sessions on early music repertoire.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Ventura, Dorothéa; Leblanc, Suzie; Smith Bessette, Tracy; Nadler, Rona (Fall)
Prerequisite: MUIN 303
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MUIN 305 Early Music Minor Repertoire Coaching 4 (1.5 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument : Coaching sessions on early music repertoire.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Leblanc, Suzie; Smith Bessette, Tracy (Winter)
Prerequisite: MUIN 304
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6 credits from the following (for Instrumental students only):
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MUIN 270 Practical Lessons Performance Minor 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument : Practical instruction as part of a performance minor program.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Poletaev, Ilya; Bergeron, Sylvain; Beausejour, Luc; Basque, Alexis; Nadler, Rona (Fall)
Prerequisite: Admission to the relevant performance minor program by audition
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MUIN 271 Practical Lessons Performance Minor 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument : Practical instruction as part of a performance minor program.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Poletaev, Ilya; Bergeron, Sylvain; Beausejour, Luc; Basque, Alexis (Winter)
Prerequisite: MUIN 270
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MUIN 273 Practical Lessons Performance Minor 3 (1.5 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument : Practical instruction as part of a performance minor program.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Gossage, David Mark; Lee, Ranee Y; Doxas, Dimitrios; Grott, David; Trottier, Jean-Nicolas; Vedady, Adrian; Novak, Bohdanna; Miller, Elizaveta (Fall) Poletaev, Ilya (Winter)
Prerequisite: Admission to the relevant performance minor program by audition or MUIN 270.
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MUIN 274 Practical Lessons Performance Minor 4 (1.5 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument : Practical instruction as part of a performance minor program.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Vedady, Adrian; Trudel, Marianne (Fall) Lee, Ranee Y; Doxas, Dimitrios; Trottier, Jean-Nicolas; Vedady, Adrian; Novak, Bohdanna; Miller, Elizaveta (Winter)
Prerequisite: MUIN 273
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MUIN 275 Practical Lessons Performance Minor 5 (1.5 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument : Practical instruction as part of a performance minor program.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: MUIN 274
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MUIN 276 Practical Lessons Performance Minor 6 (1.5 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument : Practical instruction as part of a performance minor program.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: MUIN 275
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MUIN 302 Early Music Minor Repertoire Coaching 1 (1.5 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument : Coaching sessions on early music repertoire.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Ventura, Dorothéa; Smith Bessette, Tracy; Nadler, Rona (Fall)
Prerequisite: Admission to the Early Music Minor by audition
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MUIN 303 Early Music Minor Repertoire Coaching 2 (1.5 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument : Coaching sessions on early music repertoire.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Smith Bessette, Tracy (Fall) Ventura, Dorothéa; Smith Bessette, Tracy; Nadler, Rona (Winter)
Prerequisite: MUIN 302
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MUIN 304 Early Music Minor Repertoire Coaching 3 (1.5 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument : Coaching sessions on early music repertoire.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Ventura, Dorothéa; Leblanc, Suzie; Smith Bessette, Tracy; Nadler, Rona (Fall)
Prerequisite: MUIN 303
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MUIN 305 Early Music Minor Repertoire Coaching 4 (1.5 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument : Coaching sessions on early music repertoire.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Leblanc, Suzie; Smith Bessette, Tracy (Winter)
Prerequisite: MUIN 304