Music and its media
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Discover the fascinating world of music transmission in this free course. Explore how music communication has evolved over time and across different locations. Gain insights into the significance of musical media and how they reflect cultural contexts. Enhance your understanding of the historical and geographical aspects of music through the study of manuscripts, prints, and recordings. Uncover the connections between the appearance and contents of musical sources and their creators and users. Start your journey into the diverse ways music is transmitted today!
This free course, Music and its media, examines some of the main ways in which music is transmitted. It considers how the means of communicating a particular piece can change over time
And how the appearance and contents of a source can reflect the circumstances in which it is produced. The course focuses on three examples of musical media that allow us to study music of the past: manuscripts of sixteenth-century Belgium, prints of eighteenth-century London, and recordings of twentieth-century America.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Demonstrate knowledge of the main ways in which music is transmitted
Understand how the means of communicating a particular piece can change over time
Examine examples of musical media from different historical periods and geographical locations
Show how the appearance and contents of a musical source can reflect its musical and non-musical context, its creator(s) and user(s).
