M502
Professor Massimo Ossi
Spring 2003
NEW Course listing--M 502: Handel
Course Schedule
Site Index; Information; Reserve Books and Scores; Reserve Recordings; Research Project; Important Dates
Week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Part 1: Biography and Venetian Context; Part 2: Concertos;
Part 3: Chamber Music; Part 4: Opera; Part 5: Sacred Music
Listening Tests: 1 and 2; Midterm Exam; Final Exam
Part 1: Biography and Venetian Context
Introduction
Music in Venice in the 18th Century
Readings: Talbot, Vivaldi, chapter 2
Vivaldi's Life and Career
Readings: Talbot, Vivaldi, chapters 3 and 4
Introduction: Baroque concerto types
a) concerto grosso
Listening: Corelli, Concerto Op 6 no. 1 (http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?ACP4182); Handel, Concerto Op 6 no. 5 (http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/var/access?AKT9658)
b) solo concerto
Listening: Torelli, Concerto for violin, op. 8 no. 8 (Norton Anthology of Western Music, second edition, side 6)
Repertory: Published Volumes and the Problem of Titles
Vivaldi's Concertos: Problems of Chronology, Sources, Style
Readings: Talbot, Vivaldi, chapter 6 (106-end); Everett, Vivaldi: The Four Seasons and Other Concertos, op. 8, chapters 4-6
Survey of the Published Concertos:
Listening: Bach, Concerto for 4 harpsichords, BWV 1065; Vivaldi, Concerto in B minor, RV 580, op. 3 no. 10
L'estro armonico (op. 3)--continued
(b) La stravaganza (op. 4)
Friday 14 February--Listening Test 1 (Happy Valentine!)
Johann Georg Pisendel
(c) Violin concertos (op. 6)
(d) Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'invenzione (op. 8)
Monday, 24 February--Midterm Exam:
(d) Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'invenzione (op. 8)--continued
The church of Santa Maria della Pieta'
(e) La cetra (op. 9)
(f) Flute concertos (op 10)
(g) Concertos (op 12)
Guardi, The Storm at Sea (La tempesta di mare)
General introduction to the genres
Readings: Talbot, Vivaldi, chapter 6 (94-106); Everett, "The Manchester Manuscripts"
3a: instrumental: trio sonatas
Friday, 27 March--Listening Test 2
Readings: Talbot, Everett
Score: The Manchester violin sonatas, edited by Michael Talbot (M2 .R285 v. 26)
3b: vocal: secular cantatas
Introduction
Repertory: Lungi dal vago volto (RV 680); Amor, hai vinto (RV 683); Cessate, omai cessate (RV 684; same url as 683)
Readings: Talbot, Vivaldi, chapter 7 (136-139)
Venice, La Fenice
Introduction: Opera in late 17th and early 18th century Venice
Criticisms of Venetian Opera: Marcello and Others
Vivaldi's Operas
Readings: Talbot, Vivaldi, chapter 7 (139-150)
Part 5: Sacred Music: Mass Movements, Motets, Cantatas, Oratorios
Introduction
Readings: Talbot, Vivaldi, chapter 7 (150-161); Talbot, Vivaldi's Sacred Music
Mass movements
Repertory: Gloria (RV 588)
Motets and Cantatas
Repertory: In turbato mare irato (RV 627, same url as RV 680 above)
Gentile Bellini, Procession in St Mark's Square (1496)
Oratorios
Massimo Ossi, copyright 2002