This web page and its associated links serves as a communications site for MUH 5345 at the University of Central Florida. Posted here are various information pages, assignments, study guides, and links to useful web sites. Students in this course are free to print any of these pages for their own use.

Syllabus (Summer "B" 2008) - Overview of the course, grading policies, etc. for Master's-level students

Schedule - Tentative list of reading & listening assignments

Daily Assignments - A complete list of all specific assignments, class announcements, and other reminders in chronological order for Summer "B" 2008

Assignments - Instruction Sheets for MUH 5345 out-of-class projects & graded exercises

• Take-Home Midterm
• Basso Continuo Assigment
• Fugue Analysis Assignment
• Take-Home Final Exam

Supplemental Readings

A list of items (Books, Articles, Scores & Recordings) used in this course, now in the UCF Library, for use in your studying.

Recordings for Schulenburg, Anthology (1st ed.)

A list of all Recordings associated w/ Schulenberg's Anthology, now in the UCF Library, for use in your studying.

Schulenberg Discography and Downloadable Recordings

Part of the professional website of David Schulenberg, author of the textbook used in MUH 5345, this website includes both a list of recommended recordings for the 2nd. edition of his Anthology and many downloadable mp3 files of a few works in the anthology and also music examples found in the textbook. (Please note that Schulenberg's example numbers are matched to the newer 2nd edition and may differ in some cases from the identifying numbers of the 1st edition.)

Basic Music History Reviews

For those who wish to review their basic music history knowledge, these web sites maintained by W.W. Norton provide supplemental study materials, including chapter outlines, practice quizzes, and listening guides keyed to several recent basic music history texts:

• W.W. Norton entry point for Burkholder, A History of Western Music 7th ed. or Hanning, Concise History of Western Music, 3rd ed.
• Barbara Hanning, Concise History of Western Music, 2nd ed.
• Grout/Palisca, A History of Western Music 6th ed.

Home page of the UCF Library, with full access to the online catalog. On-campus users and those with a UCF ISP may also have access to the online versions of the following electronic databases:

• The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians II
• Classical Music Library
• The Music Index Online - (Available on the UCF Library's Web page under "Database Titles 'M'")
• Music Literature Abstracts (RILM) - (Available on the UCF Library's Web page under "Database Titles 'R'")

Home page of the largest library and largest music library in the world. Search its catalog via the link near the top of the page.

A searchable index of doctoral dissertations written in the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory. Although primarily an index of American dissertations, it also includes many of the more recent European dissertations.

One of the largest web sites for free downloadable scores of choral music. Searchable by composer, title, etc. Files display and print as PDF documents.

A "free music" web site devoted primarily to current popular music, but also has other genres, including some classical items.

An excellent performance of this madrigal, led by Alan Curtis, a leading expert on early music and its performance, on YouTube. Note the links on this page to many other performance of Gesualdo madrigals and related works.

Claudio Monteverdi, Orfeo

There are numerous excerpts from this famous opera on "YouTube". Here are a few of the better ones:

• Orfeo (opening: overture and "Dal mio Permesso" ["Musica"])
• Orfeo,"Rosa del ciel" [Orfeo] (Act I excerpt)
• Orfeo, (Act I excerpt, w/ dance)
• Orfeo, (Act II excerpt, Sinfonia and "Ecco pur ch'a voi ritorno" [Orfeo]) [Schulenburg # 6]
• Orfeo, (Act II excerpt, "Mira, deh mira" [Shepherd], arrival of the messenger [badly cut, but see next excerpt], into "Tu se' morta" [Orfeo] and "Ahi, caso ascerbo" [chorus])[Schulenburg # 6]
• Orfeo, (Act II excerpt,"In un fiorito prato" [Messenger, cut from excerpt above]) [Schulenburg # 6]
• Orfeo, Instrumental excerpts and an unidentifed aria.

A streaming sound file of NPR's "Milestones of the Millennium" program about Monteverdi. (c. 10 minutes long, this item requires a RealPlayer [see below for a download site, if needed].)

Home page of the NPR Radio program devoted to music of the Baroque era. Look under "Links" on the pull-down menu (top of the page) for separate pages listing links to web sites on "General" Baroque topics, "Instruments" (of the era), and "Composers." Beware that not all of these external sites are of equal value, but there are some very good resources scattered among the lesser sites.

As Central Florida's local professional symphony orchestra, the OPO performs a variety of concert series in and around Orlando. Follow the “Events” link on the home page to view the various concert series they present.

Orlando’s professional opera company presents 3-4 operas and others events each season. Student tickets are available in some areas of the house for as little as $ 10.00.

The Festival of Orchestras is a permanent concert series in Orlando’s Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, featuring five internationally acclaimed symphony orchestras each season.

The Winter Park Bach Festival is internationally known as the fourth oldest Bach Festival in the United States, having been founded in 1935 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. This organization hosts a series of classical concerts throughout the year, as well as an extended Bach Festival in the early spring, on the campus of Rollins College in Winter Park.

The web site of the University of Central Florida's own non-commercial radio station. Its programming is primariliy jazz, but WUCF also carries some NPR programming, a Sunday evening show on Bluegrass, and Saturday broadcasts of The Metropolitan Opera. WUCF-FM is available to you through the Internet to anyone with a Real Player Plug-in.

Orlando's public radio station broadcasts primarily classical music, news, and other NPR programming 24-hours a day. Use the "pull-down" menu under "90.7" on the tool bar at the top of the home page to reach the web link for listening to WMFE's broadcast.

The University of Florida's public radio station in Gainesville broadcasts a mix of classical, jazz, folk, and world music, as well as news and NPR programming 24-hours a day. WUFT-FM can be heard through the web link on their home page.

Web site of "Real Player," one of the standard plug-ins that you might need to listen to web broadcasts and streaming audio, or to play CDs through your computer. The basic player can be downloaded at now cost from this site.

Web site of "Windows Media Player," another plug-in the is used for listening to web broadcasts, streaming audio and CDs.

Web site of one of the most widely used software packages for writing and printing music with computers. Various demo versions and upgrades are available for downloading, as is a help center for users.

The Web site of Coda Music, makers of the widely used Finale program for writing and printing music. A basic form of the program is available as a free download.