How much music theory knowledge is necessary to study medieval music?
How much music theory knowledge is necessary to study medieval music?

What knowledge of music theory is necessary to study medieval music?
I enrolled in a course entitled "History of Medieval music. I had the theory of AP in high school, but very few people in the class are great musicians who have advanced the theory. Medieval music is complicated or what?
I agree with delight - lines Nesting of medieval music often operate at a level not realize, without a decent background. You know what? - Obtain a copy of Gradus ad Parnassum Fux (ie pronounced Fooks, so to avoid trouble. Betcha that Yahoo * * Clean the spelling!). This is the book that the teacher used Mozart to teach him - and thousands and thousands of others who learned from him. Going through the forms of species counterpoint * - How can you build melodies weave around each other - the teacher and student dialogue. Yes, it can be dry - but to what extent he can understand their own ways. If you a sense of "Ah, young grasshopper, to see if you can take the kola nut from my hand, then it is easier to read - we've all seen these types of learning martial arts movies! This can be very interesting - My son is coming to GM of digital music, and an election decided that needed time to really different from all the Sibelius later and the current record and other things on his head - if only medieval and Renaissance Tokk choral music course - wrote a paper monster "Spem in Allium. I read it because I'm his mother - Otherwise, I have been in a slumber great extent. . . Much depends on the teacher - if you are excited about it, great. If you are a mortal snoring - Ouch. There was a sort of history of art that was, I swear, the last semi-grand-son life of Bela Lugosi. We slept in a few minutes in the darkroom, slides too. . . Good luck with the course - you never know until you try.
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