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Music Tripos, 2001: Notice

The Faculty Board of Music give notice that they have prescribed the following papers and subjects for the Music Tripos in 2001 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 339):

Part IA

Paper 3. Subjects in the history of music I

A. Constructing the Renaissance canon

B. Twentieth-century definitions

Paper 4. Subjects in the history of music II and notation

A. World music and the Western intellectual tradition

Part IB

Paper 1. Stylistic composition (also serves as Paper 4 of Part II)

The composers prescribed are: Josquin des Prez and John Taverner

Paper 2. Subjects in the history of music I

A. Notation: the music of Guillaume Dufay

B. Music in Purcell's London

C. J. S. Bach in context and reception

Paper 3 Subjects in the history of music II

A. The operas of Mozart

B. Wagner: from romantic opera to music drama

C. Soviet music

Part II

Paper 2. Set works

A. Hildegard of Bingen, Symphonia and Ordo virtutum

B. Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto

C. Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro

D. Musorgsky, Boris Godunov

E. Tippett, The Midsummer Marriage

Paper 4. Stylistic composition

See Paper 1 of IB

Papers 6-14. Additional papers

6. Performance practice

7. Perception and performance

8. Schenkerian analysis and notation

9. Westernization and world music

10. Music, print, and culture in the Renaissance

11. Song cycles of Schubert and Schumann

12. Verdi and Puccini in context

13. Film music

14. Genius, originality, and the musical work: readings in aesthetics

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Cambridge University Reporter, 17 May 2000
Copyright © 2000 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.