M653: Music of the Baroque PeriodFall 2006Indiana University School of Music
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Week: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 The Baroque AestheticWeek 1Monday, 8/28: Introduction to "Baroque" Reading: Syllabus Wednesday, 8/30: The Late Renaissance--Palestrina and Lassus Reading: Schulenberg, 15-32 Listening: Palestrina, "Dum complerentur" (S. 1); Lassus, "Timor et tremor" (S. 2) Friday, 9/1: The Madrigal at Ferrara--De Rore, Luzzaschi, Vicentino and Gesualdo Reading: Schulenberg, 32-35, 48-51 Listening: "Beltà, poi che t'assenti" (S. 3); Luzzaschi, "Cor mio, deh non languire" Secular Vocal Music: Madrigal, Cantata and OperaWeek 2Monday, 9/4: Monteverdi and the seconda prattica Reading: Schulenberg, 35-39; Strunk/Murata, pp. 526-544 Listening: Monteverdi, Bk. 4, "Luci serene" (S. 4) Wednesday, 9/6: The Florentine Camerata and the Legacy of Humanism Reading: Schulenberg, 51-58 Listening: Cavalieri, "Dalle più alte sfere" and "Godi turba mortal"; Caccini, "Sfogava con le stelle" (S. 5) Friday, 9/8: Peri's Euridice and the Recitative Style Reading: Kelley Harness, "Le tre Euridici: Characterization and Allegory in the Euridice of Peri and Caccini", Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music 9(1). Online article. Click here for a list of the earliest operas. Listening: Excerpts from Peri's Euridice TBA Week 3Monday, 9/11: Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo; Quiz #1 Reading: Schulenberg, 59-73 Listening: Excerpts from Monteverdi's Orfeo--"Prologue"; Act II (S. 6); Act III, "Possente spirto" Wednesday, 9/13: Monteverdi's Madrigals, Book 8 Reading: Schulenberg, 73-79 Listening: Monteverdi, Lamento d'Arianna; Lamento della ninfa; Monteverdi, Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (S. 7) Friday, 9/15: Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea Reading: Schulenberg, 79-82 Listening: Monteverdi's Poppea Act I, sc. 1-5; Act I, sc. 9; Act II, sc. 3; Act 2, sc. 10 Week 4Monday, 9/18: Cavalli’s Giasone Reading: Schulenberg, 82-87 Listening: Cavalli, Giasone, Act I, sc. 14; Act III, sc. 21 (S. 8); Wednesday, 9/20: The French Style--Air de cour, ballet de cour, and musique mesurée Reading: Schulenberg, 88-98 Listening: Pierre Guédron, "Vous que le bonheur rappelle" Friday, 9/22: Lully's Armide Reading: Schulenberg, 98-109 Listening: Lully's Armide, (S. 9); also: Act II, sc, 5; Act III, sc. 2-3; Act V, sc. 2 Week 5Monday, 9/25: Barbara Strozzi; Quiz #2 Reading: Schulenberg, 110-115 Listening: Ardo in tacito foco (S. 10) Wednesday, 9/27: Alessandro Scarlatti and the Later Cantata Reading: Schulenberg, 115-126 Listening: A. Scarlatti, Correa nel seno amato (S. 11) Friday, 9/29: Henry Purcell and English Vocal Music; Writing Assignment #1 Reading: Schulenberg, 126-130 Listening: "From Rosy Bowers" (S. 12) Optional Listening: "The Plaint (O let me weep)" from The Fairy Queen (disc 2, track 15); "Charon the Peaceful Shade" from Dioclesian (disc 1, track 18) Week 6Monday, 10/2: Topics in Late Baroque Opera Reading: Schulenberg, 157-165 Wednesday, 10/4: George Frideric Handel Reading: Schulenberg, 165-173 Listening: Handel's Orlando (S. 18), Act I, sc. 7-10 Friday, 10/6: Jean-Philippe Rameau Reading: Schulenberg, 173-180 Repertoire: Rameau's Les Indes Galantes (S. 19), Fourth entrée, sc. 4-5 in Schulenberg anthology; sc. 6 selections can be heard on CD. Week 7Sacred Vocal Music: Mass, Oratorio and CantataMonday, 10/9: Stile antico and stile moderno (Monteverdi's Mass and Vespers of 1610); Quiz #3 Reading: Schulenberg, 131 Listening: Monteverdi's Mass and Vespers of 1610 ("Deus in adiutorium meum intende", "Duo Seraphim", and "Sonata sopra Sancta Maria") Wednesday, 10/11: Sacred Music in Venice--G. Gabrieli Reading: Schulenberg, 132-140 Listening: G. Gabrieli, selections from Sacrae symphoniae: "Ego sum qui sum", In ecclesiis (S. 13), "Canzon septimi toni", "Sonata pian' e forte" Friday, 10/13: Exam Review Week 8Monday, 10/16: Midterm Exam Wednesday, 10/18: Sacred Music in Germany--Heinrich Schütz Reading: Schulenberg, 140-148 Listening: Heinrich Schütz, SWV 356 "Es steh Gott auf"; Monteverdi "Armato il cor" and "Zefiro torna"; Schutz, SWV 361 "Herr, neige deine Himmel" (S. 14); SWV 415 "Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich" (S. 15) Friday, 10/20: Seventeenth-century Oratorio Reading: Schulenberg, 148-151 Listening: Carissimi, Jephte (S. 16) Week 9Monday, 10/23: Marc-Antoine Charpentier; Reading: Schulenberg, 151-156 Listening: Charpentier, H. 414 In Nativitatem Domini (S. 17)
Wednesday, 10/25: Lutheran Church Music; Bach and the Cantata Reading: Schulenberg, 181-199 Listening: BWV 127 Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott (S. 20) Friday, 10/27: J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor Reading: John Butt, Bach: Mass in B Minor (Cambridge, 1991); pp. 1-6, 14-19, 20-24, 50-57, 94-95. Listening: Mass in B Minor, Symbolum Nicenum Week 10Monday, 10/30: J.S. Bach's St. John Passion Reading: Chafe, "The St. John Passion: theology and musical structure," in Bach Studies, ed. Don O. Frankin, pp. 75-112. Listening: St. John Passion, excerpts: "Herr, unser Herrscher" CD 1, track 1; "Von den Strikken" CD 1, track 7; "Erwäge" CD 1, track 20; "In meines Herzens Grunde" CD 2, track 6; "Est ist vollbracht" CD 2, track 10; "Mein teurer Heiland" CD 2, track 12; "Durch dein Gefängnis CD 2, track 22
***No class, Wednesday or Friday, 11/1-11/3 Week 11Monday, 11/6: Handel and the English Oratorio; Writing Assignment #2 Reading: Schulenberg, 200-208 Listening: Jephtha (S. 21) Instrumental Music: Keyboard Genres, Sonata and ConcertoWednesday, 11/8: Baroque Keyboard Music in Italy Reading: Schulenberg, 209-222 Background Listening: Frescobaldi, Partite sopra l'Aria della Romanesca; Monteverdi, Bk. 7 "Ohimè, dov'è il mio ben?"; Listening Assignment: Toccata IX, Bk. I (S. 22) Friday, 11/10: Baroque Keyboard Music in France and Germany--Froberger and Jacquet de la Guerre Reading: Schulenberg, 222-233 Listening: Froberger, Suite X in A Minor (S. 23); Jacquet de la Guerre, Suite III in A minor (S. 24) Week 12Monday, 11/13: The North German Organ School; Quiz #4 Reading: Schulenberg, 234-245 Listening: Buxtehude, BuxWV 208 Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist (S. 25); J.S. Bach, BWV 385 Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist (S. 26); Buxtehude, BuxWV 153 "Praeludium in A Minor" (S. 27) Wednesday, 11/15: J.S. Bach's Keyboard Music Reading: Schulenberg, 245-249 Listening: J.S. Bach, Prelude and Fugue in G Well-Tempered Clavier Bk. 1 (S. 28); Friday, 11/17: François Couperin and Eighteenth-century French Keyboard Music Reading: Schulenberg, 249-254; S. 29 Listening: F. Couperin, selections from Vingt-unième ordre (S. 30) Week 13Monday, 11/20: Rameau and Domenico Scarlatti Reading: Schulenberg, 255-259 Listening: J.-P. Rameau, selections from Suite in G, Nouvelles suites de clavecin (S. 31); D. Scarlatti, Sonata in A, K. 181 (S. 32); Sonata in A, K. 182 (S. 32) (disc 11, track 10) ***Thanksgiving Holiday*** Week 14
Week 15Monday, 12/4: Vivaldi and the Solo Concerto Reading: Schulenberg, 296-301 Listening: Vivaldi, Concerto in E., Op. 3, no. 12, RV 265 (S. 38) Wednesday, 12/6: J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos Reading: Schulenberg, 301-306 Listening: J.S. Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, BWV 1047; Friday, 12/8: Exam Review ***Final Exam: Friday, December 15, 2:45 - 4:45 p.m.*** |