This web page and its associated links serves as a communications site for MUH 4322 / MUH 5326 at the University of Central Florida. Posted here are various information pages, assignments, study guides, and links to useful web sites. Students in this course are free to print any of these pages for their own use.

Undergraduate Syllabus - Overview of the course, grading policies, etc. for Undergraduates

Graduate Syllabus - Overview of the course, grading policies, etc. for Master's-level students

Daily Assignments - A complete list of all specific assignments, class announcements, and other reminders in chronological order for Spring 2015

Assignments - Instruction Sheets for MUH 4322 / MUH 5326 out-of-class projects

• Response Paper on Antiquity Readings
• Chant Transcription & Description
• Comparison of Ars Antiqua and Ars Nova
• Paper on the "Semel Antiphonary"
• Identification Exercise
• Major Paper (UG and Grad)

Course Readings

A list of all items (Books, Articles, Scores & Recordings) used in class and now in the UCF Library (or elsewhere) for use in your studying.

For those who wish to review their basic music history knowledge, these web sites maintained by W.W. Norton provide supplemental study materials, including chapter outlines, practice quizzes, and listening guides keyed to several recent basic music history texts:

• W.W. Norton entry point for Burkholder, A History of Western Music 7th ed. or Hanning, Concise History of Western Music, 3rd ed.
• Barbara Hanning, Concise History of Western Music, 2nd ed.
• Grout/Palisca, A History of Western Music 6th ed.

Home page of the UCF Library, with full access to the online catalog. On-campus users and those with a UCF ISP may also have access to the online versions of the following electronic databases:

• Classical Music Library (Streaming Audio Recordings)
• JSTOR (online retrospective collection of Scholarly Journals in PDF)
• Oxford Music Online (includes The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians II)
• Project Muse (online collection of currently published Scholarly Journals, including: Music and Letters, MLA Notes, The Opera Quarterly, and others)
• Eighteenth-Century Music (Cambridge Journals Online)

One of the largest web sites for free downloadable scores of choral music. Searchable by composer, title, etc. Files display and print as PDF documents.

The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) attempts to create a virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge. Use the window at the left on the home page to search "Strauss," which gives access to a significant number of early Strauss scores that are now in the public domain. Scores may be viewed as PDFs and can be downloaded.

Home page of the largest library and largest music library in the world. Search its catalog via the link near the top of the page.

A searchable index of doctoral dissertations written in the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory. Although primarily an index of American dissertations, it also includes many of the more recent European dissertations.

A "virtual" encyclopedia of the Ancient world, including links to many important documents in English translation.

A "virtual" encyclopedia of general information about medieval Europe (history, literature, the church, etc.), including numerous links to full-text sources and innumerable links to other web sites.

An outstanding web site devoted exclusively to early music. Its contents include:

• several overview essays
• a glossary of terms
• a detailed chart of the Mass

An on-line tutorial for priests that explains the details of how to perform the Mass (and other background information on chant).

A web site maintained by the Benedictine Abbey of Solesmes, the monastery responsible for the restoration of Gregorian Chant in the 19th Century.

A web site that explains how to read and transcribe chant notation.

A general web site with extensive links to other web pages on chant.

A web site at Indiana University that describes chant and its usage in the Mass and Offices.

Home page of a leading expert on chant. See any of the various links, especially including his free translation of Saulnier, A Guide To Gregorian Chant and his own Gregorian Chant.

Cantus

"CANTUS is a database of Latin ecclesiastical chant....The CANTUS database is intended to assist scholars in their study of the chants of the Office." Read the "About page for more information about this important scholarly project, and use the search functions to find information on specific chants.

MassDataBase

"The MDB records around 40.000 settings of the Ordinary to range from the closing years of the 14th century up to the present day. In addition to general information on the works and fundamental biographic data, it also contains information on the source material and modern editions for every individual composition. The MDB is based on a systematic examination of the established encyclopedias and lists of references (MGG1 and 2, New Grove 1 and 2, RISM) as well as the specialist literature." Use the "English" language page (switch at the top left) to search for basic information on settings of the mass throughout history, chiefly through the Renaisance.

An authoritative English-language translation of the Latin Vulgate Bible, which was the first translation of the Bible from its original Greek and Hebrew texts by St. Jerome in the late 4th/early 5th centuries. The Bible may be searched by texts or by going directly to a numbers chapter and verse. The original Latin Vulgate Bible is also available with the same search functions via the link at the top left of the page.

Latin Vulgate.Com

A Bible website that will display parallel passages of the Latin Vulgate Bible with those of the Douay-Rheim and King James translations.

A website with information about and links to literally dozens of different translations of the Bible, including Latin.

BibleGateway.com

An online Bible that allows searches in over 100 languages (but not in Latin).

An excellent source for locating biblical passages, searchable by Book, Chapter and Verse, or by text fragments. It indexes 9 different translations of the Bible. (EX. To locate the story of Carissimi's "Jephte": type "Judges 11:29-40" in the "passage" block and click "look up.")

A page with background information about important figures in Church history, written from the standpoint of a general historian, i.e., these essays often say little about the musical activities of these people. Many of the listed individuals are not always thought of as "church figures," e.g., the poet Dante and the playwright Shakespeare. Included are sketches of the following individuals important to the earliest years of the church:

• Ambrose, Bishop of Milan
• St. Augustine
• Boethius
• Pope Gregory the Great
• Hildegard of Bingen

An extended web page on Hildegard and her music.

A brief explanation and sound file of the hymn from which the solmization syllables were derived.

A brief explanation of mnemonic device used by Guido d'Arezzo to teach solmization in the Middle Ages.

Another explanation of Guido d'Arezzo's method for teaching solmization in the Middle Ages.

A brief explanation of solmization in the Middle Ages.

A web-based project run by the University of Warwick that seeks to investigate medieval poetry and song related to the Crusades. While there is little information the music of this repertoire, there are background essays and many texts with translations.

Part of a web site run by "Here of a Sunday Morning" (Radio program on WBAI, New York, devoted to classical music) that gives some very basic background on secualr musicians of the middle ages, along with links to more biographical information for those individuals.

Essay by Nancy M. Real (NYU) that offers an overview of medieval secular music, and includes links ot other resources.

Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris (Links)

• Great Buildings Online (history, images, bibliography and links)
• Gothic Architecture (images of other early Gothic churches, with links to other sites)

A page with numerous links to information on Guillaume de Machaut and related topics.

The Wikipedia entry for Baude Cordier, which includes images of his rondeau notated in the shape of a heart ("Belle, Bonne, Sage") and the canon notated in a circle ("Tout par compas suy composés"). [click either to see enlarged images.]

An excellent full-color facsimile of this important example of early English polyphony (c. 1250). It is possible to read the notation, if you look carefully at the clefs (note the B-flat in the signature). Also, the two supporting parts, the Pes, who participate in voice-exchange, are visible at the bottom of the leaf.

A detailed musical analaysis of Du Fay's important isorhythmic motet.

Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence (Links)

Images and information on the church where Du Fay's Nuper rosarum flores was first performed at the church's consecration in 1436.

• The Duomo, Florence (several good images, with historical background)
• Filippo Brunelleschi (background on the architect who executed the Dome)

A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments

A web site maintained by the early music ensemble at Iowa State University.

Virginals (Wikipedia)

A detailed description and several illustrations of the Virginal.

Clavichord (Wikipedia)

A detailed description and several illustrations of the clavichord.

Sounds of Harpsichords and Related Instruments

A page of web links to brief sound files that illustrate the general sonic characteristics of different types of harpsichords and other instruments.

Resources related to the Lute, its history and performance.

Vihuela Society (English)

Resources related to the Vihuela, its history and performance.

Tuning Systems (Warfield)

An explanation with charts of how the Ancient "Pythagorean" and Renaissance "Just" tuning systems are calculated.

As Central Florida's local professional symphony orchestra, the OPO performs a variety of concert series in and around Orlando. Follow the ?Events? link on the home page to view the various concert series they present.

The Winter Park Bach Festival is internationally known as the fourth oldest Bach Festival in the United States, having been founded in 1935 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. This organization hosts a series of classical concerts throughout the year, as well as an extended Bach Festival in the early spring, on the campus of Rollins College in Winter Park.

The web site of the University of Central Florida's own non-commercial radio station. Its programming is primariliy jazz, but WUCF also carries some NPR programming, a Sunday evening show on Bluegrass, and Saturday broadcasts of The Metropolitan Opera. WUCF-FM is available to you through the Internet to anyone with a Real Player Plug-in.

Orlando's public radio station broadcasts primarily news and other NPR programming, with occasional music-related shows, 24-hours a day. Use the "pull-down" menu under "90.7" on the tool bar at the top of the home page to reach the web link for listening to WMFE's broadcast.

The University of Florida's public radio station in Gainesville broadcasts a mix of classical, jazz, folk, and world music, as well as news and NPR programming 24-hours a day. WUFT-FM can be heard through the web link on their home page.

Web site of "Real Player," one of the standard plug-ins that you might need to listen to web broadcasts and streaming audio, or to play CDs through your computer. The basic player can be downloaded at now cost from this site.

Web site of "Windows Media Player," another plug-in the is used for listening to web broadcasts, streaming audio and CDs.

Web site of one of the most widely used software packages for writing and printing music with computers. Various demo versions and upgrades are available for downloading, as is a help center for users.

The Web site of Coda Music, makers of the widely used Finale program for writing and printing music. A basic form of the program is available as a free download.