M502:  The Music of Lully

Fall 2005

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Introduction

Week 1 (8/29-9/2)

Music at the Court of Louis XIV

Aesthetics--Reason, Passion and Rhetoric

Harmony in the Late 17th- and Early 18th-Centuries

Ballets de cour

Week 2 (9/5-9/9)

Introduction to Baroque Dance

Ballets de cour

Reading:

• J. R. Anthony, "Ballet de cour II:  The Period of Lully pp. 39-46.  Reserve ML270.2.A627.
• L. E. Auld “The Non-Dramatic Art of Ballet de cour” Beyond the moon : Festschrift Luther Dittmer / edited by Bryan Gillingham and Paul Merkley, pp. 360-93 ML55 .D55
• D.J. Buch: ‘The Influence of the Ballet de cour in the Genesis of the French Baroque Dance Suite’, Acta Musicologica, lvii (1985), 94–109

Entrées and the French Overture

Listening: 

• Ballet d'Alcidiane et Polexandre: Prologue et 6e entrée  (Tracks 2-9), Reserve score:  M3 .L95 v.8;
• Ballet des muses, Reserve CD Frontlog 5411521, Reserve score M1520.L92 B2

Reading:  J.R. Anthony: ‘More Faces than Proteus: Lully’s Ballet des muses’, Early Music, xv (1987), 336–44. 

Week 3 (9/12-9/16)

The French air and the Italian lamento

Reading:  J.R. Anthony, "Lully's Airs:  French or Italian?", Musical Times 128 (1987), 126-9.

Scores: 

• Récit d'Armide, "Ah, Rinaldo, e dove sei?" from Les amours déguisés.  Reserve M3 .L953 I/6.
• Plainte de Venus from Ballet royal de Flore.  Reserve M3 .L953 I/6.

Concerts--Instrumental Music

Scores:

• Ritournelle pour le concert du Printemps from Ballet des saisons.  Reserve M3 .L953 I/6.
• Ballet des muses.  Reserve M1520.L92 B2.
• Les amours déguisés.  Reserve M3 .L953 I/6

Comédies-ballets and Tragédies-ballets

Comédies-ballets

Reading:  E. Lance, "Molière the Musician:  A Tercentenary View," Music Review 35 (1974):  120-30.

Listening: 

• Les Plaisirs De L'Ile Enchantee: Deuxieme Journee - La Princesse D'Elide.
• Monsieur De Pourceaugnac - Le Divertissement De Chambord.  Reserve score:  M3 .L95 v.6
• Le bourgeois gentilhomme.  Reserve score:  M3 .L95 v.6

Week 4 (9/19-9/23)

***Paper topic due Monday, September 19***

Comédies-ballets, continued

Listening:

• Les amants magnifiques.  Reserve score:  M3 .L95 v.6
• "Chantons tous de l'Amour" and "Laisse-nous en repos, Philène!" from Georges Dandin.  Reserve:  Frontlog CD 5411521
• Georges Dandin - Le Grand Divertissement Royal De Versailles.

Tragédies-ballets

Reading:  M. Turnbull, “The metamorphosis of Psyché," Music & Letters 64:  (1983) 12-24.

Score:  Reserve M1503.L95 P9

Listening from Psyché:

• Ouverture de Psyché.
• Prélude pour les trompettes; Chantons les plaisirs charmants.  Reserve:  Frontlog CD 5411521
• Plainte italienne de Psyché.

Tragedies en musique

Week 5 (9/26-9/30)

Mazarin and the Italian Opera

The Academy of Music and the Origins of French Opera

Forms and Conventions

Reading: 

• Reading:  L. Rosow: ‘Making Connections: Thoughts on Lully's Entr'actes’, Early Music, xxi (1993), 231–8.

• P. Howard, "Lully and the Ironic Convention," Cambridge Opera Journal 1 (1989), pp. 139-53.

• J.R. Anthony, "The Musical Structure of Lully's Operatic Airs," Jean-Baptiste Lully:  Saint Germain-en-Laye and Heidelberg (1987), pp. 65-76.

• C. Wood, "Orchestra and Spectacle in the tragédie en musique, 1673-1715:  Oracle, sommeil and tempête," Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association 108 (1981-2):  25-46.

Week 6 (10/3-10/7):  Alceste (1674)

***Bibliography Due Monday, October 3***

Vocal Score:  Reserve M1503.L95 A5 1971

Orchestral Score:  Reserve M3 .L95 v.2

Libretto:  Reserve ML49 .Q5 v. 1

Recording:  CD .L956 A.3-3

Week 7 (10/10-10/14):  Atys (1676)

Facsimile Score:  Reserve M1500.L96 A8 1998

Vocal Score:  Reserve M1503.L95 A8

Libretto:  Reserve ML49 .Q5 v. 1

Recording:  ABH0763

Week 8 (10/17-10/21):  Midterm Exam and Phaeton (1683)

Midterm Exam:  Monday, October 17th

Reading:  B. White, "Grabu's Albion and Albanius and the operas of Lully:  '...acquainted with all the performances of the French Opera's.'"  Early Music 30 (2002):  410-27.

Facsimile Score:  Reserve M1500.L96 P5

Vocal Score:  Reserve M1503.L95 P4 1971

Libretto:  Reserve ML49 .Q5 v. 2

Recording:  CD .L956 A.7

Week 9 (10/24-10/26):  Roland (1685)

***There will be no class on Friday, 10/28***

Facsimile Score:  Reserve M1500.L96 R6

Libretto:  Reserve ML49 .Q5 v. 2

Recording:  6062355

Week 10 (10/31-11/4):  Armide (1686)

Reading: 

• N. Zaslaw, "At the Paris Opera in 1747," Early Music 11(4) 1983:  514-16.  (passim)
• J. Hayes, "Armide:  Gluck's most French opera?," The Musical Times 123 (1982):  408-11.  (passim)
• J.L. Schwartz, “The passacaille in Lully’s Armide: phrase structure in the choreography and the music.” Early Music 26 (1998): 300-313.

Score:  Reserve M3 .L953 III/14

Facsimile Score:  Reserve M1500.L96 A7 2000

Libretto:  Reserve ML49 .Q5 v. 2

Recording:  Reserve CD .L956 A.5-2

Church Music

Week 11 (11/7-11/11)

***Outline/First Draft Due Monday, November 7***

Miserere

Reading:  L. Sawkins: ‘Chronology and Evolution of the Grand motet at the Court of Louis XIV: Evidence from the Livres du roi and the Works of Perrin, the sous-maîtres and Lully’, in Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque: Essays in Honor of James R. Anthony (Cambridge, 1989), pp. 41–79.

Score:  Reserve M3 .L95 v.9

Recording:  Reserve CAU3393 v.1

Te Deum

Reading:  Lois Rosow ; "The sources of Lully's Te Deum (LWV 55) : implications for the collected works" in Quellenstudien zu Jean-Baptiste Lully, Hildesheim : Olms, 1999

Score:  Reserve M3 .L95 v.10

Recording:  Reserve CD CAU3393 v.1

De profundis and Quare fremuerunt

Reading:  J. Hajdu Heyer: ‘The Sources of Lully's Grands motets’, in Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque: Essays in Honor of James R. Anthony (Cambridge, 1989), pp. 81–98.

Scores: 

• Facsimile De profundis Reserve M2021.L84 M62
• De profundis Reserve M3 .L95 v.11
• Quare fremuerunt Reserve M3 .L952 ser.4 v.5

Recording:  CAU3393 v.2

Performance Practice

Week 12 (11/14-11/18)

Orchestration, Instruments and Continuo

Reading: 

• R. Zappulla, Figured Bass Accompaniment in France (Turnhout, 2000).  Selections TBA.
• J.S. Powell, "Musical Practices in the Theatre of Molière," Revue de musicologie 82 (1996):  5-37.

Georg Muffat, notes inégales, and Temperaments

Reading:

• K. Cooper and J. Zsko, "Georg Muffat's Observations on the Lully Style of Performance," Musical Quarterly 53 (1967):  220-45.
• N. Zaslaw, "The Compleat Orchestral Musician," Early Music 7 (1979):  46-57.

The Influence of Lully

Lully and Rameau

Reading:

• L. Rosow, "Structure and Expression in the scènes of Hippolyte et Aricie," Cambridge Opera Journal 10 (1998):  259-73.

• C.W. Dill, Monstrous Opera:  Rameau and the Tragic Tradition (Princeton, 1998).  Reserve ML410.R17 D56.  Selections TBA

Week 13 (11/21)

The Orchestral and Keyboard Suite

Reading:  H. Schneider, "The Amsterdam Editions of Lully's Orchestral Suites."  Lully and the Music of the French Baroque, pp. 113-30.  Reserve ML410.L95 J4.

***Thanksgiving break begins Wednesday, November 23***

Week 14 (11/28-12/2)

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Week 15 (12/5-12/9)

***Final Papers due Monday, December 5***

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Exam Review