Music and its media

This free course, Music and its media, examines some of the main ways in which music is transmitted. It considers how the means of communicating a particular piece can change over time; and how the appearance and contents of a source can reflect the circumstances in which it is produced. The course focuses on three examples of musical media that allow us to study music of the past: manuscripts of sixteenth-century Belgium, prints of eighteenth-century London, and recordings of twentieth-century America.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 How is music transmitted?
• 1 How is music transmitted?
• 1.1 Different musical media
• 2 Music manuscripts of the sixteenth-century Low Countries
• 2 Music manuscripts of the sixteenth-century Low Countries
• 2.1 The music manuscripts of the Alamire workshop
• 2.2 Two manuscripts from the Alamire workshop
• 2.3 The contents of the Brussels manuscript
• 2.4 The contents of the Vienna manuscript
• 3 Music publications of eighteenth-century London
• 3 Music publications of eighteenth-century London
• 3.1 John Walsh and the London audience
• 3.2 Examining Walsh’s publications
• 3.3 Corelli and the London audience
• 3.4 John Walsh, Estienne Roger and Corelli’s solo sonatas
• 3.5 Walsh’s editions of Corelli’s Opus 5
• 4 Music recordings of twentieth-century America
• 4 Music recordings of twentieth-century America
• 4.1 The V-Disc programme
• 4.2 The form of V-Discs
• 4.3 The content of V-Discs
• 4.4 The meaning of V-Discs
• 4.5 Meanings of V-Disc music
• Conclusion
• Glossary
• References
• Acknowledgements