Music M401
History and Literature of Music I:
Antiquity to 1750

Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

Fall 2007

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Listening List, Part III:
Baroque Music

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Ancient and Medieval | Renaissance | Baroque

Table of Contents

• From Renaissance to Baroque: The invention of opera
• Monteverdi
• Italian opera and vocal music through the middle seventeenth century
• Heinrich Schütz and musical rhetoric
• Italian instrumental music in the early seventeenth century
• Lully and opera at the court of Louis XIV
• French keyboard suite and Germany and Austria in the late seventeenth century
• England, Spain, and the Americas
• Italy in the late seventeenth century: Scarlatti and Corelli
• Vivaldi
• The later French Baroque: Couperin and Rameau
• J. S. Bach: Instrumental music
• J. S. Bach: Vocal music
• Handel

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From Renaissance to Baroque: The invention of opera

• NAWM 63. Claudio Monteverdi, Cruda Amarilli, madrigal (late 1590s)
  
  
• NAWM 64. Giulio Caccini, Vedrò 'l mio sol, solo madrigal (ca. 1590)
  
  
• NAWM 65. Jacopo Peri, Le musiche sopra l'Euridice, opera, excerpts (1600)
  • NAWM 65a: Prologue, Tragedy: Io, che d'alti sospir, strophic aria
  • NAWM 65b: Tirsi: Nel pur ardor, aria
  • NAWM 65c: Dafne, Arcetro, and Orfeo: Per quel vago boschetto, dialogue in recitative

Monteverdi

• Supplemental Recording #3: Claudio Monteverdi, L'Orfeo, opera, excerpts: Prologue and Acts I and II (1607)
  • Toccata and Prologue
    
  • Act I
    
  • Act II
    

  Nigel Rogers (Orfeo) and other soloists with Chiaroscuro, London Baroque, and The London Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, directed by Nigel Rogers, Charles Medlam, and Theresa Caudle
  CD .M7812 A.6-15, disc 1, tracks 1-18
  score will be on Variations 2 [currently in process]
  
  see also the performance on Videotape ADQ6969, directed by Nikolaus Harnoncourt

• NAWM 66. Claudio Monteverdi, L'Orfeo, opera, excerpt from Act II (1607)
  
  
• NAWM 67. Claudio Monteverdi, L'Incoronazione di Poppea, opera, excerpt: Act I, Scene 3 (1642)

Italian opera and vocal music through the middle seventeenth century

• NAWM 68. Antonio Cesti, Orontea, excerpt from Act II (1656)
  • NAWM 68a: Scene 16: E che si fa?, dialogue in recitative
  • NAWM 68b: Scene 17, opening aria: Intorno all' idol mio
  
  
• NAWM 69. Barbara Strozzi, Lagrime mie, cantata (1650s, published 1659)
  
  
• NAWM 70. Alessandro Grandi, O quam tu pulchra es, solo motet (sacred concerto) (ca. 1625)
  
  
• NAWM 71. Giacomo Carissimi, Historia di Jephte, oratorio, excerpt (ca. 1648)
  • NAWM 71a: Filia: Plorate colles, recitative
  • NAWM 71b: Chorus: Plorate filii Israel

Heinrich Schütz and musical rhetoric

• NAWM 72. Heinrich Schütz, O lieber Herre Gott, sacred concerto, from Kleine geistliche Konzerte I (1636)
  
  
• NAWM 73. Heinrich Schütz, Saul, was verfolgst du mich (SWV 415), sacred concerto, from Symphoniae sacrae (ca. 1650)

Italian instrumental music in the early seventeenth century

• NAWM 74. Girolamo Frescobaldi, Toccata No. 3, toccata (ca. 1615, rev. 1637)
  
  
• NAWM 75. Girolamo Frescobaldi, Ricercare after the Credo from Mass for the Madonna, ricercare, from Fiori musicali (ca. 1635)
  
  
• NAWM 76. Biagio Marini, Sonata IV per sonar con due corde, sonata for violin and continuo (ca. 1626)

Lully and opera at the court of Louis XIV

• NAWM 77. Jean-Baptiste Lully, Armide, opera, excerpts (1686)
  • NAWM 77a: Overture
  • NAWM 77b: Act II, Scene 5: Armide: Enfin il est en ma puissance

French keyboard suite
Germany and Austria in the late seventeenth century

• NAWM 78. Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, Suite No. 3 in A Minor, keyboard suite, from Pièces de clavecin (ca. 1687)
  • NAWM 78a: Prelude
  • NAWM 78b: Allemande
  • NAWM 78c: Courante I (Courante II not on recording)
  • NAWM 78d: Sarabande
  • NAWM 78e: Gigue
  • NAWM 78f: Chaconne
  • NAWM 78g: Gavotte
  • NAWM 78h: Menuet
  
  
• NAWM 84. Dieterich Buxtehude, Praeludium in E Major, BuxWV 141, organ prelude (late 17th century)

England, Spain, and the Americas

• NAWM 79. Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, opera, excerpt: Conclusion (1689)
  • NAWM 79a: Dido: Thy hand, Belinda, recitative
  • NAWM 79b: Dido: When I am laid in earth, lament (ground bass aria)
  • NAWM 79c: Chorus: With drooping wings
  
  
• NAWM 80: Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco, La púrpura de la rosa, opera (1701), excerpt: Y bien, ¿qué es lo que adviertes?
  
  
• NAWM 81: Juan de Araujo, Los coflades de la estleya, villancico

Italy in the late seventeenth century: Scarlatti and Corelli

• NAWM 82: Alessandro Scarlatti, Clori vezzosa, e bella, cantata, excerpt: Conclusion (c. 1690-1710)
  • NAWM 82a: Recitative, Vivo penando
  • NAWM 82b: Aria, Sì, sì ben mio
  
  
• NAWM 83: Arcangelo Corelli, Trio Sonata in D Major, Op. 3, No. 2, trio sonata (1680s, published 1689)
  • NAWM 83a: Grave
  • NAWM 83b: Allegro
  • NAWM 83c: Adagio
  • NAWM 83d: Allegro

Vivaldi

• NAWM 85. Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 3, No. 6, violin concerto (ca. 1710)
  • NAWM 85a: Allegro
  • NAWM 85b: Largo
  • NAWM 85c: Presto

The later French Baroque: Couperin and Rameau

• NAWM 86. François Couperin, Vingt-cinquième ordre [Twenty-fifth Order], keyboard suite, excerpts (1730)
  • NAWM 86a: La Visionaire (first movement)
  • NAWM 86b: La Muse victorieuse (fourth movement)
  
  
• NAWM 87. Jean-Philippe Rameau, Hippolyte et Aricie, opera (1733), excerpt: Conclusion of Act IV

J. S. Bach: Instrumental music

• Supplemental Recording #4: Johann Sebastian Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major (ca. 1720)
  • I. Allegro
  • II. Affettuoso
  • III. Allegro

  Wilbert Hazelzet, transverse flute, Roy Goodman, violin, Ton Koopman, harpsichord, and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, directed by Ton Koopman
  Early Music Archive ABN2167, disc 2, tracks 1-3
  score on reserve: m.s. M1040 .B118 C7 no. 5
  score on Variations 2

• NAWM 88. Johann Sebastian Bach, Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543, organ toccata and fugue (1715)
  
  
• NAWM 89. Johann Sebastian Bach, Durch Adams Fall, BWV 637, chorale prelude from the Orgelbüchlein (ca. 1716)

J. S. Bach: Vocal music

• NAWM 90. Johann Sebastian Bach, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62, cantata
  • 1. Chorus: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
  • 2. Aria (Tenor): Bewundert, o Menschen
  • 3. Recitative (Bass): So geht aus Gottes Herrlichkeit und Thron
  • 4. Aria (Bass): Streite, siege, starker Held!
  • 5. Accompanied recitative (Soprano and Alto): Wir ehren diese Herrlichkeit
  • 6. Chorale: Lob sei Gott, dem Vater, ton

Handel

• NAWM 91. George Frideric Handel, Giulio Cesare [Julius Caesar], opera, excerpt: Act II, Scenes 1-2 (1724)
  • NAWM 91a: Cleopatra, Nireno, and Cesare: Eseguisti, recitative
  • NAWM 91b: Cleopatra: V'adoro, pupille
  
  
• NAWM 92. George Frideric Handel, Saul, excerpt: Act II, Scene 10 (1739)
  • NAWM 92a: Saul: The Time at length is come, accompanied recitative
  • NAWM 92b: Saul and Jonathan: Where is the Son of Jesse?, recitative
  • NAWM 92c: Chorus: O fatal Consequence of Rage

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