Student Projects


1			The author discusses how lines of chant used as the basis or Cantus Firmus for large polyphonic movements were often borrowed by composers to be used instead as the basis for secular songs. Does this type of borrowing occur today? Are there types of music today that are both sacred and secular? Styles of music that are shared?




2			The end of both the horrors of Plague and the carnage caused by the Crusades coupled with technological advances like music notation, the printing press, and navigational instruments that allowed for safer travel, fueled an explosion of new music throughout Europe. Stain Glass windows were the 42 inch flat panel monitor screens of their day bringing pictures to life. How have technological advances changed music in your lifetime? What do you think will change in the music you hear because of technology you see developing right now? Who will benefit both here and on other continents? Who will suffer?