Week 1
Lesson 1
DISCOVERING THE MUSIC OF MESOPOTAMIA
There will be classroom introductions where students will answer the following question: What is Music History? There will also be an overview about Music in Antiquity: Music in Mesopotamia.
 Week 2
Lesson 2
𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐈𝐍 𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐓𝐘: 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐂𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐄
Learners will be introduced to chant notation and theory: Neumes, Modes, and Hexachords. They will also learn about how Greece and Rome played an important role in the development of Western Music Theory. 
 Week 3
Lesson 3
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐏𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐔𝐌: 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐔𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐏𝐓𝐒
Learners will be introduced to musical forms and historical information about Roman Liturgy and Chant: Offices and Mass; Genres and Forms of Chant. An assignment will be provided by the instructor of the course that will involve transcribing Greek notation. 
 Week 4
Lesson 4
𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐆𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐓
Learners will be introduced to Medieval Secular Music: Troubadours and Trouvères, Cantigas and Estampies. There will be an assignment provided by the instructor where learners will develop their own codex. 
 Week 5
Lesson 5
𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐘 𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐘𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐘: 𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐀𝐍𝐔𝐌; 𝐌𝐎𝐃𝐀𝐋 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 
Learners will develop their knowledge about early polyphony and Nôtre-Dame Polyphony. There will be a listening assignment where the students will describe their thoughts on Medieval music.
 Week 6
Lesson 6
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐀
For this session, learners will continue our discussion about early polyphony. In addition, learners will be introduced to the Ars Nova and its origins. The final project will be introduced to learners in the final part of the class. 
 Week 7
Lesson 7
𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐉𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐒
There will be a final project where students will present a composer discussed from this class and a comprehensive review of what had learned in class.