Print this page Music and Art at Christmas - Renaissance, Baroque, Classical

The music and art created for the Christmas season during the Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical periods is some of the most beautiful and inspiring in Western Civilisation. This seasonal course will explore part of this superb heritage through the music of Ludford, Palestrina, Gabrieli, Scheidt, Eccard, Bach, Reutter and Haydn, and will include both sacred and secular, and vocal and instrumental works. Appropriate outstanding paintings of the era from galleries in Milan, Florence, Genoa, Venice and Paris, as well as churches in Austria and Germany, will serve to complement the music and illustrate the beauty and joy characteristic of the season.

DELIVERY MODE

• Face-to-Face

COURSE OUTLINE

• The Renaissance – Ludford, Palestrina, Giovanni Gabrieli – England and Italy
• The Baroque in Germany – Scheidt, Eccard, J S Bach
• The Classical Era in Austria – Reutter, and F J Haydn

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

1. Appreciate the differing and varied music and art created during the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras in celebration of Christmas
2. Distinguish the major stylistic traits of the music and art of these three periods
3. Note the continuity of forms and subject matter within the stylistic changes
4. Assess the cultural importance of this music and art as well as their complementarity