History of the Concerto

Spring 2003

Prof. Massimo Ossi

ANNOUNCING:

The Austin B. Caswell Award

The Musicology Department prize for the best undergraduate paper written in the calendar year 2002 (and you thought those 401 and 402 papers were useless!)

Please see the Terms of the Competition at:

http://www.music.indiana.edu/som/theory/office/abc_awrd.htm

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Week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

Baroque; classical; Romantic; twentieth century

Important Dates: Listening Test 1; Listening Test 2; Midterm Exam; Final Exam

Reserve Books and Scores

Reserve Recordings

Part 1: Baroque

Week 1

1) Introduction: The genre, its origins, and its characteristics

Reading: Textbook, chapter 1

2) Concerto grosso

Reading: Textbook, chapter 1

Listening: Corelli, concertos Op 6 nos. 1 and 12 (http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?ACP4182)

3) Handel

Reading: Textbook, chapter 5

Listening: concertos Op 6 no. 5 (http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?AKT9658)

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Week 2

Monday 20 January--Martin Luther King's Day, no classes

4) Solo concerto: Torelli

Reading: Textbook, chapter 3

Listening: Torelli, Concerto for violin, op. 8 no. 8 (Norton Anthology of Western Music, second edition, side 6); Torelli, Concerto a quattro in forma Pastorale per il Santo Natale, Op. 8 no. 6, "Christmas Concerto" http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?AEF1730

5) Vivaldi

Reading: Textbook, chapter 4

Listening: Il Cimento dell’armonia e dell’invenzione, op. 8, only Spring from the Four Seasons (http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?AEV1084)

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Week 3

6-7) Vivaldi

Listening: Bach, Concerto for 4 harpsichords, BWV 1065; Vivaldi, Concerto in B minor, RV 580, op. 3 no. 10

8) Bach

Reading: Textbook, chapters 6-7

Listening:

Violin concertos (http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?ACM0302)

Brandenburg concertos (http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?AEC5490)

Italian concerto (http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?ABF4908)

Harpsichord concertos (http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?ABN2193)

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Week 4

9-10) Bach

Part 2: Classical

11) Emergence of the classical concerto

Reading: Textbook, chapters 8 and 9

Listening: CPE Bach, Keyboard concerto, wq 23 (http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?ACP7507)

JC Bach Concerto in E-flat major op. 7 no. 5 (http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?ACT4438)

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Week 5

12-14) Mozart

Reading: Grayson, Piano Concertos #20 and 21 (on reserve)

Listening: Piano concertos nos. 20 and 21 (Bilson, complete: http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?AGU0637)

Violin concertos (http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?ABM7903)

Clarinet concerto (http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?ALR4142)

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Week 6

15) Listening Test 1

16-17) Beethoven

Reading: Textbook, chapter 11

Listening: Piano concertos (Tan: http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?AGS8508)

Violin concerto (http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?AEU4213)

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Week 7

18) Beethoven

19) Review

Part 3: Romantic

20) Virtuoso concerto

Reading: Textbook, chapter 12

Listening: Viotti, Violin concerto no. 22 in A minor (http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?bhs1037)

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Week 8

21) Midterm (through Mozart): Midterm Essays

22-23) Chopin

Reading: Textbook, chapter 14

Listening: Chopin, Piano concerto #2 in f minor (http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?CAB2083); together with Rossini, Otello, cd 2 track 13, Act 3: “Assisa a’ piè d’un salce”

Hummel, Piano concerto in A minor, op. 85 (VARIATIONS Sound Recording abe7477)

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Week 9

24-25) Mendelssohn

Reading: Textbook, chapter 14, 15

Listening: Mendelssohn, Violin concerto op. 64

26) Liszt

Reading: Textbook, chapter 14, 15

Listening: Liszt, Piano concerto #1 in Eb major

15-23 March, Spring Break

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Week 10