Overview

An Overview of the course - Heritage of Church Music
	Course details for the full series of seminar/lectures are expanded below. This course is available to online users as it is developed ahead of its live presentation in Auckland, NZ. The full notes are written in an informal style as speaking notes, which include bibliography and illustration, not as formal academic essays, so they will not be useful for cribbing....

	CONTENT - (eight lectures in each Part)
	Part I - Testamental - Medieval Times	Part II - Renaissance and Reformation
	Part III - Eighteenth - Nineteenth Centuries	Part IV - Twentieth -21st Century

	PART I (BCE1000-CE1400)	PART II (1500-1700)
	1. Jewish Music in OT, NT, Ancient Near East Mesopotamian music evidence Levitical choir, Temple practise, Music Jesus would have known/heard, Ps 114 (B'seth Israel) Aramaic Lords Prayer, music from Dead Sea Scrolls, Outcome - Experience of live sound of the period. Knowledge and awareness of new scholarship.	1. Tudor Masters - masses motets Contributions of Tallis Tye Tavener Sheppard Eton Choirbook - partbooks Plainsong v. part music Miserere - Tallis O come ye servants - Tye Outcome - Listening and participation experience in music of the period. Knowledge of the basic style and clergy arguments of the day.. Aquaintance with scores, major works.
	2. Early Church - Alexandria, Jerusalem, Syrian Orthod. Opinions of Church Fathers on music and worhip Pagan v. Christian Jewish music becomes Christian Musical practise Syriac liturgy from Jerusalem St Cecelia and persecutions First hymns, Vigils Evolution of Mass and Office Hours Outcomes- Familiarity with ancient arguments re music. Listening experience of earliest eucharist. Pre-Constantine music research today.	2. Reformers- BCP Parker's Psalter, Tallis's Psalm tunes Coverdale's psalter Merbecke Euopean chorales and experiments - Geneva psalters In Dulci Jubilo , Praetorius Lutheran liturgy > Cranmer Outcome- Understanding of musical issues in English Reformation with rise of literacy. Aims of psalters. Experience of music making in the period The wider Reformation in Europe.
	3. Dark Ages - Byzantine music - Patristics General history of the period - schisms Cassiodorus on music Romaneque art & architecture Early hymnody - St Ambrose et al Liturgies of St James, Basil, John Chrysostom Byzantine music - script and forms St Romanos - Hymn to Virgin - Kontakion Guido d'Arezzo Outcomes - Understanding of world of the period following Fall of Rome. Place of the church. Theological insights of the time expressed in hymns. Concepts of musical notation. Listening experience of ancient Divine Liturgies and Kontakia. Examination of scores.	3. Palestrina,Vittoria, Lassus, Pope Marcellus Council of Trent - Counter Reformation Elements of style Missa Papae Marcelli in full O Quam gloriosum Allegri Miserere Outcome - Understanding the ideals of the style and the issues promoting it.. Experience of the music in score and listening. Context - Vatican art.
	4. Notation - Gregorian Music, Liber Usualis, Kyriale Pope Gregory Abbot John in UK More on notation Scriptoria - Solemnes How plainchant works Psalmody tones - Tonus peregrinus The Ordinary chant The Propers chant Outcomes - Understanding of basic plainsong notation. Experience of singing it. Familiarity with its literature and terminology. Listening experience of major works. Awareness of plainsong in music thereafter. Potential for present day church. Practical chanting experience.	4. Byrd Gibbons et al Elizabethan & early Jacobean Full / Verse Anthems This is the Record of John - Gibbons Short Service - Gibbons Ave verum - Byrd Mass for 4 voices - Byrd Mag & Nunc Fauxbourdons - Morley Outcomes - Knowledge and understanding of reality of music in reforming England of the day. Experience of well known / used works standard in cathedral repertoire..
	5. Great Plainsong examined O Antiphons of Advent Improperium Stephen Langton composer - sequences Stabat Mater Exsultet Rorate Coeli Veni Creator Spiritus Outcomes - Familiarity with chant that still has use and application today in fine liturgy. Some practical singing experience as well as listening. Resourcing for ministry.	5. Schutz & Monteverdi - early Baroque Polychoral music @ St Marks, Gabrielis Rise of operatic style/stile concitato Beatus Vir Vespers 1609 Seven Last Words Oratorio Charpentier Outcomes - Awareness of shift to public performance of sacred music. Less focus on Mass settings, motets. Shift in patronage of musicians to secular powers.
	6. Motet and Cyclic Mass - context at Salisbury and Canterbury The early motet - Dunstable at Canterbury Uses - Salisbury at Easter Day Machaut - Messe de Nostre Dame, Dufay - Burgundy Tournai Mass L'Homme Armé Outcomes - as result of context at medieval cathedrals, some life to specialist music that is rarely performed / heard by non-musicians, and never ever in modern services.	6. Organ Literature & Instruments (other than JSB) Early-Mid Baroque organs and organists Design of the classic instrument Musical forms Buxtehude Pachelbel Frescobaldi Outcomes - familiarity with some major music heard as voluntaries. Work at the organ console.
	7. Late Medieval carolling and song Origins of carols Carols still in use Cult of the BVM Hildegard of Bingen - composer Outcome - Understanding and experience of some early carols and especially those relating to BVM. Aquaintance with song other than chant popular today.	7. C'wealth & Restoration Purcell & Blow, Laud Effect of Cromwell on church music English organs Chapel Royal following Restoration Purcells at Westminster - works Verse Anthems Blow - Salvator Mundi The Anglicanism of the day Outcomes - familiarity with some famous works still in use in parishes/cathedrals
	8. Late Medieval liturgical drama Origins of drama Conventions Play of Daniel Townley play of Noah Misteri d'Elx in full Outcome - Listening and visual experience of a current play still running annually since 1300s. Awareness of connection with modern church dramatic events.	8. Psalmody and Anglican Chant (overview) Precursors of Anglican chant Principles of Anglican Chant Psalters Composers New editions Present day use Alternatives Outcomes - practical experience of all options available today. Listening experience of fine interpretations

	PART III (1700-1900)	PART IV (1900-2008)
	1. Bach - organ music - chorales- Lutheranism Some important chorales and their origins 371 Chorales The Orgelbuchlein - O mensch bewein Sei gegrusset, Prelude & Fugue in A Min - virtuoso music Passacaglia in C min Outcomes - Insght into JSB's purposeful liturgical use of chorales through following scores, listening, and analysis	1. Colonialism, NZ, USA, Black America Pre 1900 - Early musicians at work in NZ Bishop Selwyn and music Early church music in USA Imported influences Southern Baptist Black musicians- Revival Spirituals Post 1900 NZ musicians Outcomes - Understanding of our local precursors and influences. Listening and singing experience
	2. Bach - cantatas, chorales, oratorio/mass Structure of cantatas incl chorales Liturgical use of cantatas Wachet Auf (Advent) Solo Cantata St Matthew Passion structure, function B Minor Mass selections - Sanctus Outcomes - Familiarity with Bach's major choral works of a religious nature.	2. Britten and Howells, Messaien Liturgical music of Britten Jubilate deo Music of Howells - 0rgan and choral Organ music of Messiaen - his intentions Le Banquet celeste Vision de l'eglise eternelle Outcomes - appreciation of the work of three major 20th century composers still offering work to the church.
	3. Handelian UK - - Canterbury/Westminster - West Gallery Handel at Westminster Cooke at Canterbury Parish music West gallery repertoire Isaac Watts hymnody Outcome - familarity with Handelian oratorio, and parish activity in one of the church's less glorious times.	3. Mid-century searching for a new voice to replace the old Vatican II Charismatics Iona - Celtic Taize Gelineau Folk Mass Outcome - Understanding of the variety of explorations and their success or failure liturgically. Underlying theologies
	4. The Wesleys- hymnody Methodism - the Hymnbook Hymns of Charles Music of Samuel Wesley Samuel Sebastian Wesley Victorian hymn writers 19th century carolling Outcomes - practical insight into this movement and the period.	.4. Mid-late 20th Century NZ NZ Liturgical reform NZL70 Brother Reginald Peter Godfrey Gillian Whitehead Max Fernie Douglas Mews Ecumenism +RC/Anglican dialogue
	5 .RC classics, romantics - Mozart, Schubert, et al Catholic music of the late 18th ->19th centuries Viennese Masses - Mozart, Haydn, Schubert Lesser composers of the church Fading religious interest of Brahms, Beethoven Romantic Oratorio/Mass Geistliches Lied, Organ O welt... Outcome - Understanding of the diminishing interest in liturgical music from this time on in mainstream art - effects of Enlightenment.	5. NZ church music, musicians & issues >2000 David Hamilton, David Griffiths John Wells Guy Jansen Bi-culturalism Ecumenism - resourcing issues RC initiatives from USA bishops - plainsong Parish Reviews
	6. Oxford Movt A&M EH hymnals Aims of the Oxford Movement related to music First publication of A&M with contents Countered by English Hymnal Alexander's Hymnal Outcomes - some familiarity with major modern sources of standard hymnody. A beginning aesthetic sense of what is a classic.	6. Tavener and Part, Rutter, young Brits Influence of Byzantine /Orthodox music Holy Minimalism Arvo Part - Berliner Messe - 7 Magnificat Antiphons Tavener- Song for Athene, The Lamb, Funeral Ikos Francis Grier & young Brits - new works John Rutter - choral works Outcomes - Awareness of recent serious attention to religious music in Europe. Familiraity with some well known works.
	7. French organ literature - instruments - Franck Parisian organists style Gigout, LeFebvre-Wily, Dubois, Boellmann The instrument Cesar Franck - chorales etc Widor, Dupre Music for liturgy Outcomes - recognition of this style of organ music and familiarity with often heard works.	7. Pope Benedict XVI, Archbishop Rowan Pre- papacy commentary by Benedict XVI re music and liturgy Comment by Archbishop Rowan Outcomes - After examination of their ideas, some understanding of the mindset of current church leadership on the arts.
	8.Edwardian nationalism Music of Stanford Parry Elgar detail coming	8. 90s-2008 in NZ Anglican/Protestant context Final edition NZPB - Psalter issues Gibson - Hymnbook Trust Murray Wallace Fundamentalism - Bible Belt Diminishing resources and musical literacy RSCM in NZ of late Future church & Post Christian thought Outcome- Appreciation of new wave of hymnody and its intentions. Successes .& failures.

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