M653
Music in the Baroque
Week 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15Listening tests on 7 October and 18 November
Midterm on October 28
Paper Due 6 December
Final Exam (Essays) on Friday, 20 December 2:45-4:45 pm
Preliminaries: Foundations of Baroque Style
September 2--Lecture
1: The Emerging Baroque Aesthetic: Developments in Italian Music, 1570-1600September 4--Lecture 2: New Expressive Ideals and the Polyphonic Madrigal (chromaticism; changes in text-setting ideals; ornamentation)
Repertory: Monteverdi, "Piagne e sospira" (book 4); Gesualdo, "Moro lasso al mio duolo"; Marenzio, "Crudele acerba"; Luzzaschi, "Bianchi cigni"
September 6--Lecture 3: Florentine Experiments: the Rejection of Polyphony
Repertory: Selections from Caccini, Amarilli mia bella (Le Nuove Musiche), Peri, Tra le lagrime e i sospiri, and Uccidimi dolore (Le Varie Musiche)
September 9--Lecture 4: Developing Concerted Practices: Instrumental Scoring and Changing Sound Ideals
Repertory: Examples from Intermedii for La Pellegrina (1589) (score only)
Repertory: Monteverdi, "Cruda Amarilli" and "T'amo mia vita" (book 5)
PART 1: Music and Theater (Stylus Theatralis)
September 13--Lecture
6: Opera in Early Seventeenth-Century Italy, 1600-1637Opera: G. Caccini, Euridice; Peri, Euridice; Monteverdi: Orfeo, Arianna
see also A chronology of early opera
Sample analysis: Monteverdi, Lamento d'Arianna from Arianna
September 16--Lecture 7: 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 č a Teti in seno"; Monteverdi, Misero Alceo, Zefiro torna (ciaccona), Or che’l ciel e la terra; Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Lamento della Ninfa
Sample analysis: Monteverdi, Combattimento
September 18--Lecture 8: Opera in Mid Seventeenth-Century Italy, 1640-1660
Repertory: Monteverdi, Poppea; Cavalli, Calisto
September 20--Lecture 9:
Italian Opera into the Eighteenth Century, 1670-1750Repertory: Cesti, Orontea; Alessandro Scarlatti; Vivaldi; Pergolesi, La serva padrona
Sample analysis: Scarlatti, scene from opera
September 23--Lecture 10:
France: Tragédie Lyrique, 1660-1690Repertory: Lully, Atys
Sample analysis: Lully, Prologue from Atys
September 25--Lecture 11:
France: Tragédie Lyrique into Eighteenth Century, 1690-1770Repertory: Rameau
Sample analysis: Rameau
September 27--Lecture 12:
Opera in England: a) Native Works; b) Opera Seria. 1690-1750Repertory: Purcell, Dido and Aeneas; Gay, The Beggar’s Opera; Handel, Ariodante
Sample analysis: Purcell, Handel
September 30--Lecture 13: Theory: Changing Conceptions of Mode
October 2--Lecture 14: Lives: Monteverdi, Lully
October 4--Lecture 15: Cities: Venice, 1600-1750
October 7--Listening Test 1 (see Listening list)
PART 2: Instrumental Music (Stylus Instrumentalis)
October 9--Lecture 16:
Instrumental Ensemble Music: Dance Types; Sinfonia; Ricercar and Related FormsRepertory: Giovanni Gabrieli, Canzon primi toni a 10
October 11--Lecture 17: Development of the Sonata, 1600-1670
Repertory: Marini, Sonata for violin and continuo, La variata (Schulenberg, 33); Corelli, sonatas op. 2 no. 1 and op. 5 no. 3 (Schul., 35-36)
October 14--Lecture 18:
Instrumental Ensemble Music in France, England, and Germany, 1600-1670Repertory: Biber, "Mystery" sonata no. 9 in A minor (Schul., 34); Marais, Pieces de violes, La Folie d'Espagne
October 16--Lecture 19: T
he Trio Sonata into The 18th Century, 1670-1750Repertory: Couperin, Les nations: La Piemontoise; Purcell, Chacony in G minor, Z 807; Bach, Trio sonata in C minor, BWV 1036
October 18--Lecture 20
: The Development of the Concerto, 1670-1750Repertory: Corelli, Concerto grosso in G minor, op. 6 no. 8, "Chrismas" (Schul. 37); Handel, Concerti grossi op. 6 no. 1
October 21--Lecture 21: The Solo Concerto
Repertory: Torelli, Concerto for violin, op. 8 no. 8 (NAWM, second edition, side 6); Vivaldi, Concerto in E major, Op. 3 no. 12
October 23--Lecture 22: Vivaldi’s Concertos
Repertory: Vivaldi, Le quattro stagioni
October 25--Review
October 28--Midterm (through Lecture 21)
October 30--Lecture 23: Bach, Brandenburg Concertos
Repertory: Bach, Brandenburg Concertos, selections
November 1--No Lecture (24): Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (Columbus, OH): please use the time to work on your Research Project.
November 4--Lecture 25: Lute and Keyboard Music: Italy, France, Austria in the 17th Century (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
November 6--Lecture 26: Keyboard Music: Spain, England, Holland, and the North German Tradition 1600-1670
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)
November 8--Lecture 27: Keyboard Music in the 18th Century: Bach, F. Couperin, Jacquet de la Guerre, Rameau
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)
November 18--
Listening Test 2PART 3: Sacred Music (Stylus Ecclesiasticus)
November 20--Lecture 31: 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
November 22--Lecture 32: Liturgical Music in Italy and France in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, 1660-1750, continued
November 25--Lecture 33: Sacred Music in Germany: Schütz, Rosenmüller, and other 17th Century Composers, 1600-1670
Repertory: Schütz, Herr, neige deine Himmel (Schulenberg 14), Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich? (Schulenberg 15)
December
2--Lecture 34: Sacred Music in Germany: The Cantata from Buxtehude to Bach (1680s-1750)Repertory: Bach, Cantata 127 (Schulenberg 20)
December 4--
Lecture 35: Oratorio in the 17th CenturyRepertory: Carissimi, Jephte (Schulenberg 16); Charpentier, Recit de l'historien: Frigidae noctis umbra (from In Nativitatum D.N.J.C. Canticum, H. 414, Schulenberg 17)
December 6--Lecture 36: Oratorio in the 18th 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)
December 9--Lecture 37: Bach, B-minor Mass
Repertory: B-minor Mass (Kyrie 1; Credo in unum deum; Confiteor; Crucifixus)
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