Music in the Eternal City

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

We will study some of the places in Rome that were important for music history, and the music that was made there, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Included are the early stational churches of St. Cecilia and St. Clement, the great basilicas of St. Peter in the Vatican, St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major, the Sistine Chapel, the birthplaces of the oratorio: Santa Maria in Vallicella/Chiesa Nuova, and Oratorio del Santissimo Crocifisso, from more recent times the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, and the Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra. Composers whose music we’ll study include Dufay, Josquin, Palestrina, Allegri, Frescobaldi, Pasquini, Carissimi, Corelli, Handel, Haydn, Respighi.