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Performance and Culture: Renaissance Music
MUSIC 181R

Course Information

Description

In this course, you become an amateur musician in Renaissance England and learn to play the viola da gamba in a consort. Through this combination of research and hands-on learning, we investigate repertory, culture and musical life circa 1600.

Course Notes

No string experience is necessary, but you do need to be able to read music. May be taken by students from other departments and graduate students with permission of instructor.

School Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits 4
Cross Reg

Available for Harvard Cross Registration

Department Music
Course Component Seminar
Subject Music
Grading Basis FAS Letter Graded
Exam/Final Deadline Dec. 15, 2026
General Education N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data N/A
Divisional Distribution Arts and Humanities
Course Level For Undergraduate and Graduate Students