Department of Music Bro. Todd Ridder, S.M., Ph.D.; Phone x93985;
University of Dayton Off: MT 107, CAMPUS +0290; E-mail: ridder@udayton.edu
Fall Semester, 2000-2001 www.udayton.edu/~music/faculty/ridder
MUS 350
Sacred Music: its History and Performance Tradition
3 semester Hours
Room: MT 120
Class Times: MW, 3:00-4:15 p.m.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A survey of the development of Christian Music and its function in worship. The focus will be on historical styles, including both their impact on and their application within liturgical settings, as well as on the religious reflectionsengendered by specific works. (Prerequisite: Humanities Base; General Education; Catholic Intellectual Tradition cluster)
COURSE OBJECTIVES AND RATIONALE:
1.. Students will become sensitive to and be able to identify the elements of music (rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre, texture and form) and to recognize the ways these elements have been combined in music for Christian worship in various eras and regions.
2. Students will be able to identify and explain the function of the most important musical/liturgical elements in both eucharistic celebration and the daily cycle of public prayers used in "liturgical" churches (e.g., Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran, etc.)
3. Students will be able to identify and explain the function of the major musical elements in the order of worship of at least one "non-liturgical" church in the Reformation tradition.
4. Students will reflect upon the movement from faith and inspiration to praise in the context of the historical use of music and other arts to objectify divine presence and glory, and of the use of the non-verbal to contextualize and enhance the verbal, both in the western tradition and in various "world musics" permeated by Christian missionary efforts.
5. Students will be able to recognize the interaction between sacred and secular music in various eras. Students will examine some of the theological and philosophical roots of this dynamic.
6. Students will be able to identify some of the major works of Christian Music and their composers, and to discuss the liturgical and musical impact of these works.
7. Students will identify some of the major reforms of sacred music and they will recognize the assumptions and concerns which undergirded these reforms.
8. Students will demonstrate skills in critical and integrative thinking either through a short research paper or through a repertoire project.
9. Students will begin to articulate criteria by which they can either select music for worship or judge the use of music in worship.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
Attendance at lectures by the instructor, preparation for and participation in discussions of assigned readings, listenings, CD-ROMs.
Slides and videos will augment lectures. Scores, hymnals, compact discs, cassettes and LPs will be available to students in the Music Arts Learning Lab (MALL), and mp3s will be posted on the maestro.udayton.edu website. Certain listening will be assigned.
Students will (on their own) view two videotapes, one each from two of the following three groups:
A. Medieval/Chant (choose one of the following options):
BOTH: Misc10v "Mus. of the Mid. Ages" Misc01v "& They Sang a New Song"
(approx. 20-30 min. ea.)
Plainchant01v "Ambrosian Rite Vespers" (use printed prog.; see tr,SM, 100 min.)
Plainchant02v "Candlemas" (use printed program; see tr,SM, approx. 100 min.)
Plainchant03v "Peregrinus" (use printed program; see tr,SM, approx. 100 min.)
B. Renaissance/Baroque (choose one of the following):
Bach01v "Mass in B minor" (122 min.) with score if possible
Monteverdi "Marian Vespers of 1610" (from the Marian Library) (111 min.)
Misc18v "1492: a Portrait in Music" (60 min.)
Gab01v "Venice and the Gabriellis" (60 min.)
C. Cross-Cultural and Contemporary (choose one of the following):
BOTH: Misc09v "Mus. of Latin Amer." & Misc25v "Mus. of Africa" (25 min ea)
Misc17v "Amazing Grace"
"Lord of the Dance" (from Rel. Studies) (58 min.)
Misc26v "Roots of Gospel" (60 min.)
Calif01v "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning" (70 min.)
For each one of the two films a student watches, she/he must submit a 1.5 page (type/computer-written, double-spaced, 12 -point print, "Times" or a comparable font) reaction paper.
For a final project, general education students will write a term paper (6-8 pages)
or a major repertoire study/database (MCH students only) for two major seasons of the church year, depending on their interest and/or orientation. Due on 6 December (final class day).
Attendance at special services involving historical sacred music is highly encouraged (poss. extra credit, if historical content is approved). Possibilities identified so far:
Tue, 10 October, 7:30 PM Chant Mass for the Feast of Our Lady of the Pillar, UD Chapel, Schola Cantorum Daytoniensis
Gregorian chant mass, Sundays, 8:30 am, St. Anthony’s Church (820 Bowen St., Walnut Hills neighborhood, 253-9132; call to make sure) or Tridentine-rite Latin masses at Holy Family Church (140 S. Findlay, Old East End neighborhood, 253-1109)
Tu, 5 December, 7:30 PM First Vespers for the Feast of St. Nicholas, United Theological Seminary Chapel (1810 Harvard Blvd. Upper Dayton View neighborhood, 278-5817)
Sunday Divine Liturgy at St. Barbara’s Byzantine Catholic Church (5915 Springboro Pike, Miami Township, 434-9205) or at St. Ignatius of Antioch Maronite Catholic Church (727 Beckman St., off Wilmington parallel to Stewart, the other side of Woodlawn Cemetery)
Any service at St. Paul’s Orthodox Church (2382 Kennedy Ave., Belmont neighborhood, 254-7900)
Sabbath service at Temple Israel (130 Riverside Dr., just north of downtown, 496-0050) or another local synagague (esp. good if you do Sunday AM music ministry)
Also if you have a Sunday AM commitment, Saturday (Sabbath) services at Kettering Seventh-Day Adventist Church (3939 Stonebridge Road, Kettering, 298-2167)
I will be looking for special opportunities at St. Paul’s Episcopal (Oakwood), Westminister Presbyterian (downtown), and area Lutheran Churches (esp. for Reformation Day), and I will try to keep you informed.
EVALUATION
Attendance/Participation/Quizzes/Assignments 10 pts
CD-ROM Quizzes (4 pts), Maestro Usage (6 pts) 10 pts
Team Presentations 10 pts
Mid-term exam 20 pts
Final project (paper or repertoire study) 20 pts
Final exam 30 pts
TOTAL 100 pts
Since the course is a three credit course any unexcused absences beyond three will adversely affect your grade.
TEXT AND SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS:
REQUIRED:
(SCM)Wilson-Dickson, Andrew. The Story of Christian Music. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992.
(Mannion) Mannion, W.F. "Paradigms in American Catholic Church Music" Worship 70 (March 1996): 101-128 (handout)
listening assignments (maestro website mp3s)
SUPPLEMENTARY:
(SSSC) Hoffman, L.A. & J.R. Walton, eds. Sacred Sound and Social Change. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1992.
Bach & Before (CD-ROM)
Norton Masterworks, vol. I (CD-ROM)
COURSE OUTLINE: to read before class:
W 23 August OVERVIEW; THE ELEMENTS OF MUSIC; COURSE MEDIA
1. THE BIRTH OF CHRISTIAN MUSIC
M 28 August 1. Music in the Old Testament SCM: 9-32; SSSC: 84-123
W 30 August 1. Music in the Old Testament /Synagogue " "
2. Music in the Early Church
W 6 September guest lecturer: Kantor Jerome Kopmar " "
3. Worship in Fifth-Century Jerusalem " "
M 11 September 4. The Monastic Tradition SCM: 33-48; SSSC: 84-123
W 13 September 5. The Mass in the Middle Ages " "
6. Development and Transmission of the Liturgical Repertoire
**CD-ROM quiz (Anonymous "Haec Dies) DUE**
M 18 September 7. From Plainchant to Polyphony SCM: 49-54, 72-73; SSSC: 84-123
8. English and Burgundian Polyphony " "
2. RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
W 20 September 1. How Wycliffe and Hus Used Music SCM: 55-58
**FIRST VIDEOTAPE REPORT DUE**
M 25 September 2. Reformation on the Continent: Lutheran SCM: 57-66; SSSC: 124-144
& Calvinist Musical Developments
**CD-ROM quiz (Josquin "Ave Maria") DUE**
W 27 September 3. Reformation in England SCM: 67-71; SSSC: 124-144
4. The Catholic Reformation in Music SCM: 73-82,
3. A DIVIDED TRADITION--THE EAST
M 2 October 1. Worship in the Orthodox Churches SCM: 143-168
(Greek, Russian, Coptic. etc.)
W 4 October 1 (con.) Worship in the Orthodox Churches "
--poss. guest lecture
W 11 October MID-TERM EXAM
4. A DIVIDED TRADITION--THE WESTERN BAROQUE
M 16 October 1. The Catholic Baroque (Monteverdi, etc.) SCM: 84-86
W 18 October 2. The Lutheran Baroque (Schütz, Bach) SCM: 87-100
M 23 October 3. English Church Music: Commonwealth, SCM: 101-109
Restoration, Recusant
4. Handel & oratorios; Messiah SCM: 114-115
**SECOND VIDEOTAPE REPORT DUE**
5. DEVELOPMENTS IN CONGREGATIONAL SONG
W 25 October 1. The English Hymn and Methodism SCM: 110-117
2. The Decline of the Lutheran Hymn SCM: 130-132
M 30 October 3. 19th c. European developments SCM: 133-142, 182-190
& Revivalism
4. American Hymnody: the Baptists " "
and Revivalism
W 1 November 5. African American Sacred Music/ Gospel-- SCM: 191-206
poss. guest lecture
M 6 November 6. 18th & 19th c. Catholic Developments SCM: 120-129
7. The "Singmesse," Solesmes and the Caecilian Movement "
6. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
1. Pius X and the "Motu Proprio" SCM: 214-218
W 8 November 2. "Sacred" Concert Music--As Part of a Service? SCM: 219-222
M 13 November 3. Vatican II and the Liturgy SCM: 223-227, SSSC: 150-173
W 15 November 4. The Lutheran Musical Revival SCM: 228-229, SSSC: 174-186
5. Christian Music in Africa SCM: 169-180
M 20 November 6. The Influence of Pop Music, Theatre, Dance. SSSC: 150-173;
SCM: 240-242
M 27 November 7. WHAT IS THE PLACE OF TRADITIONAL SACRED MUSIC
IN TODAY’S WORSHIP? SSSC: 314-323; SCM: 243-246
& Mannion article
M 4 December Team Presentations
W 6 December Team Presentations (AND Final Projects are due!!)
FINAL EXAM--TUE, 12 Dec 10-11:50 am
Other readings may be assigned or substituted as assigned!