Music in the Baroque

Course Schedule

Important Dates:

Listening tests on 6 July and 3 August 

Midterm DUE  on 25 July

Final Exam DUE on 11 August

Week 1

Theory: Prima and Seconda Prattica

Week 2

Opera: G. Caccini, Euridice; Peri, Euridice; Monteverdi: Orfeo, Arianna

see also A chronology of early opera; for the formal diagram of Orfeo, acts 1 and 2, go to M525, Survey of Opera Literature--Diagrams: Orfeo

Madrigal, Cantata, and other Semi-dramatic forms, 1600-1650

Repertory: d’India, Giunto a la tomba : lamento di Tancredi; Barbara Strozzi, Serenata con violini : "Hor che Apollo è a Teti in seno"; Monteverdi, Misero Alceo, Or che’l ciel e la terra; Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Lamento della Ninfa

Opera in Mid Seventeenth-Century Italy, 1640-1660

Repertory: Lully, Atys (Prologue and Act 1, scenes 1-3 and 7)

See Atys facsimile: http://www.library.unt.edu/music/lully/atys08.pdf

France: Tragédie Lyrique into Eighteenth Century, 1690-1770

Repertory: Rameau

Sample analysis: Rameau

Repertory: Purcell, Dido and Aeneas: Overture; Act 2 scene 1; Act 3 scene 2, from "Thy hand, Belinda" to the end of the work; Handel, Ariodante: Vezzi, Lusinghe (Act 1 scene 1); Orrida a gl'occhi miei (Act 1 scene 2); Qui d'Amor (Act 1 scene 5); Con l'ali di costanza (Act 1 scene 8)

Listening Test 1 (Wednesday 6 July)

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Week 4

Repertory: Giovanni Gabrieli, Canzon primi toni a 10

 Repertory: Marini, Sonata for violin and continuo, La variata (Track 14; score in Schulenberg, 33);  Corelli, sonatas op. 2 no. 1 and op. 5 no. 3 (Schul., 35-36)

Repertory: Biber, "Mystery" sonata no. 9 in A minor (Schul., 34); Marais,  Pieces de violes: La Folie d'Espagne

Repertory: Couperin, Les nations: La Piemontoise; Purcell, Chacony in G minor, Z 807; Bach, Trio sonata in C minor, BWV 1036

No classes during week 5 (july 18, 19, 20)--prof. ossi will be away

Midterm (through week 4; due monday 25 july)

Vivaldi’s Concertos; Bach, Brandenburg Concertos

Repertory: Vivaldi, Le quattro stagioni

Repertory: Bach, Brandenburg Concertos, selections

Lute and Keyboard Music: Italy, France, Austria in the 17^th Century (1600-1670); Keyboard Music: Spain, England, Holland, and the North German Tradition 1600-1670

Repertory: Lute—Kapsberger, Toccata arpeggiata, Toccata 1 (1611), Ciachone; Ennemond Gaultier, Gigue, La Poste (NAWM 63 a); Dowland, fantasia, Lachrimae pavan; keyboard—D'Anglebert, transcription of Gaultier's La Poste (NAWM 63 b); Frescobaldi, Toccata IX (from Libro 1, Schulenberg 22); Froberger, Suite X in A minor (Schulenberg 23); L. Couperin

Repertory: Cabezón, Diferencias sobre 'Guardame las vacas'; Bull, Ut re mi fa so la; Byrd, Pavana and Galliard; Peter Philips, Amarilli di Giulio [Caccini] Romano; Sweelinck, Fantasia Chromatica, Variations on 'Mein junges Leben hat ein End';  Scheideman, Chorale Prelude "Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist"; Buxtehude, Chorale Prelude "Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist"  (Schulenberg 25)

Keyboard Music in the 18^th Century: Bach and his contemporaries

Repertory: Bach, chorale harmonization, "Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist" (Schulenberg 26); Buxtehude, Praeludium in A minor (Schulenberg 27); Bach, Prelude and Fugue in G major from WTC I (Schulenberg 28)

Style as Language:  the Coexistence of New and Old in Sacred Composition, 1600-1750, in Italy and France

Repertory: Gabrieli, In ecclesiis; Monteverdi, Vespers of 1610: Deus in adiutorium meum intende, Duo Seraphim, Sonata sopra Sancta Maria; Selva Morale e Spirituale: Gloria a 7 Concertata

Liturgical Music in Italy and France in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, 1660-1750, continued

Sacred Music in Germany: Schütz, Rosenmüller, and other 17^th Century Composers, 1600-1670

Repertory: Schütz, Herr, neige deine Himmel (Schulenberg 14), Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich? (Schulenberg 15)

Listening Test 2 (wednesday 3 August)

Week 8

Repertory: Bach, Cantata 127 (Schulenberg 20)

Repertory: Carissimi, Jephte (Schulenberg 16); Charpentier, Recit de l'historien: Frigidae noctis umbra (from In Nativitatum D.N.J.C. Canticum, H. 414, Schulenberg 17)

Oratorio in the 18^th Century

Repertory: Bach, St. Matthew Passion: nos. 1 and 14-17 (fifth action); Handel, Messiah (Disc 1, no. 1: Sinfonia - Comfort ye - Every valley - And the glory; Disc 2, no. 3: Surely He hath borne - All we like sheep - All they that see Him - But Thou didsnt not leave)

Bach, B-minor Mass

Repertory: B-minor Mass (Kyrie 1; Credo in unum deum; Confiteor; Crucifixus)