This course explores the ubiquity of music in the Middle Ages. "Without music no discipline is complete," wrote Isidore of Seville, to which we may add that music was an integral part of nearly every aspect of medieval life; to rephrase Isidore, "without music the Middle Ages are incomplete." Students will engage, first, with Antiquity and its important musical heritage; then they will study the intersections between medieval intellectual life and music to consider musical manifestations in broader contexts of everyday performance. No experience in reading music notation is required.