JOHANN JOSEPH FUX, Austrian composer and theorist was born in 1660 and died in Vienna in 1741. In 1698 he became court composer; in 1704 he was made Kapellmeister at St.…

Compositional Languages Fall 2012 Instructor: Prof. SIGMAN Tuesday 13:00-15:00 Lecture XI End-of-Semester Schedule 11/27: 20th century Polyphony: Ives, Varèse, Nancarrow…

Instruments and the Faenza Codex

in churches. Christian services proceeded at the Muslim court. So much fun was had that, by the 1580s, a new generation of Jesuits wanted to eradicate such exuberant music-making.…

Compositional Languages Fall 2012 Instructor: Prof. SIGMAN Tuesday 13:00-15:00 Lecture X End-of-Semester Schedule 11/20: 16th, 18th, and 20th century Counterpoint 11/27:…