This module comprises a survey of selected areas of the music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and early Baroque. Both the music and its cultural context will be studied, and areas covered may include: the place and function of music within both monastic and secular communities, including princely courts; monodic traditions; the development of polyphonic music; the contribution of selected composers who may include Perotin, Machaut, Dufay, Dunstable, Josquin, Palestrina, Marenzio, Lassus, Tallis, Byrd and Monteverdi; the role of groups of musicians such as monks, troubadours and trouveres, chapel singers and instrumental consorts; the wider cultural and social context in which music existed in this period.