From Notre Dame to Radiohead: 10 Ideas that Shaped Western Music

Description

From the Cathedrals of the Middle Ages, to Rock music and Globalisation in the 20th and 21st centuries, this introductory course explores a number of key personalities, ideas and developments that helped shape Western music. In the process it critically examines the nature and limitations of style categories such as ‘classical’ and ‘popular’, and gives examples of the complex relationship between music and social, political and economic forces. Prior knowledge of music history or music notation is not needed to take this course.