Baroque and Classical Music

MUSC 312

Music 312: Syllabus

Unit I: The Early Baroque
Unit II: The Late Baroque
Unit III: The Classical Era
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Unit I: The Early Baroque

Introduction: Roots of the Baroque (9/3)&

Reading: Grout: 251-260; Weiss: #45, 50

Listening: None

Performance Practice Issues (9/5)

Reading: Taruskin: from Text and Act

Listening: None

Forerunners of Opera (9/8)&

Reading: Grout: 260-265; Weiss: #44 (Reaction due), 47

Listening: Giulio Caccini Madrigal: Vedrò il sol (NAWM 51)

The First Operas: Peri and Monteverdi (9/10)&

Reading: Grout: 265-274; Weiss: #46 (Reaction due), 48

Listening: Jacopo Peri Le musiche sopra l'Euridice: Prologue, "Nel pur ardor", and "Per quel vago boschetto" (NAWM 52)

Claudio Monteverdi L'Orfeo: Prologue, "Vi ricorda, o boschi ombrosi", and "In un fiorito prato" (NAWM 54)

Opera to 1650 (9/12)&

Reading: Grout: 274-278

Listening: Claudio Monteverdi L'incoronazione di Poppea: Act I, Scene 3 (NAWM 55)

Marc' Antonio Cesti Orontea: Act II, Scene 17: "Intorno all' idol mio" (NAWM 56)

Vocal Chamber Music I (9/15)&

Reading: Grout: 278-285

Listening: Barbara Strozzi Cantata: Lagrime mie (NAWM 57)

Sacred Music: The Venetian School (9/17)&

Reading: Grout: 285-287; Weiss: #52 (Reaction due)

Listening: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina "Kyrie," from Missa Hodie Christus Natus est--two versions (Reserve CD)

Giovanni Gabrieli In ecclesiis (NAWM 58)

Catholic and Protestant Styles (9/19)&

Reading: Grout: 287-294

Listening: Lodovico Viadana O Domine, Jesu Christe (NAWM 59)

Alessandro Grandi O quam tu pulchra es (NAWM 60)

Giacomo Carissimi Historia di Jephte: "Plorate colles" and "Plorate filii Israel" (NAWM 61)

Heinrich Schütz Saul, was verfolgst du mich (NAWM 62)

Instrumental Music (9/22)&

Reading: Grout: 294-304

Listening: Ennemond Gaultier La Poste: lute arrangement and harpsichord arrangement (NAWM 63)

Johann Jakob Froberger Lamentation faite sur la mort très douloureuse de Sa Majesté Impériale Ferdinand le troisième (NAWM 64)

Girolamo Frescobaldi Canzona detta La Bianchina (Reserve CD)

Girolamo Frescobaldi Toccata No. 3 (NAWM 65)

Opera: Venice & Naples (9/24)&

Reading: Grout: 309-314

Listening: Alessandro Scarlatti Griselda: Act II, Scene 1: "Mi rivedi, o selva 0mbrosa" (NAWM 66)

Opera in France (9/26)&

Reading: Grout: 315-320; Weiss: #53 (Reaction due), 54

Listening: Jean-Baptiste Lully Le bourgeois gentilhomme: Ballet des nations (NAWM 67)

Jean-Baptiste Lully Armide: Ouverture and Act II, Scene 5: "Enfin il est en ma puissance" (NAWM 68)

English and German Opera (9/29)&

Reading: Grout: 320-324

Listening: Henry Purcell Dido and Aeneas: Act III: "Thy hand, Belinda/When I am laid in earth", and Chorus: "With drooping wings" (NAWM 69)

Henry Purcell The Fairy Queen: "Hark: the ech'ing air" (NAWM 70)

Sacred Genres Before Bach (10/1)&

Reading: Grout: 324-328

Listening: None

Organ Music Before Bach (10/3)&

Reading: Grout: 345-351

Listening: Dietrich Buxtehude Praeludium in E Major, BuxWV 141 (NAWM 71)

Dietrich Buxtehude Danket dem Herrn, denn er ist sehr freundlich (NAWM 72)

Exam I (10/6)

Unit II: The Late Baroque

Harpsichord and Clavichord Music (10/8)&

Reading: Grout: 351-356; Weiss: #66 (Reaction due)

Listening: Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre Suite no. 1 in D minor (1687) (Reserve CD)

François Couperin Vingt-cinquième ordre (NAWM 73)

Ensemble Music (10/10)&

Reading: Grout: 356-369; Weiss: #55, 56 (Reaction due)

Listening: Isabella Leonarda Trio sonata Op. 16, no. 12 (Reserve CD)

Giovanni Legrenzi Trio Sonata: La Raspona (NAWM 74)

Arcangelo Corelli Trio Sonata, Op. 3, No. 2 (NAWM 75)

Giuseppe Torelli Concerto for Violin, Op. 8, No. 8, First Movement (Xerox, Reserve CD)

The Aesthetic of the 18th Century; Vivaldi (10/13)&

Reading: Grout: 373-380; Weiss: #58, 60, 65 (Reaction due)

Listening: Antonio Vivaldi Concerto grosso in G Minor, Op. 3, No. 2: First and Second Movements (NAWM 76)

Antonio Vivaldi Concerto for Violin, Op. 9, No. 2, RV 345: Second Movement (NAWM 77)

Jean-Philippe Rameau (10/15)&

Reading: Grout: 380-386; Weiss: #51, 59 (Reaction due)

Listening: Jean-Philippe Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie: Act IV, Scene 1: "Ah! faut'il"(NAWM 78)

J. S. Bach: His Life (10/17)&

Reading: Grout: 386-387; Weiss: #70, 71(Reaction due), 72 (Reaction due)

Listening: None

Bach’s Keyboard and Ensemble Music(10/20)&

Reading: Grout: 387-396

Listening: Johann Sebastian Bach Praeludium et Fuga in A Minor, BWV 543 (NAWM 79)

Johann Sebastian Bach Durch Adams Fall, BWV 637 (NAWM 80)

Johann Sebastian Bach Trio Sonata from Musikalishes Opfer BWV 1079(Reserve CD)

Bach's Cantatas and Motets (10/22)&

Reading: Grout: 396-402

Listening: Johann Sebastian Bach Cantata No. 140, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (NAWM 81)

Bach's Passions and the B-minor Mass (10/24)&

Reading: Grout: 402-405

Listening: Johann Sebastian Bach Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: "Et in Spiritum sanctum"; "Confiteor"; and "Et expecto" (NAWM 82)

Fall Break, NO CLASS (10/27)

George Frideric Handel: Instrumental Music (10/29)&

Reading: Grout: 405-410

Listening: George Frideric Handel Concerto Grosso in A minor, Op. 6 no. 4 (Reserve CD)

Handel’s Operas (10/31)&

Reading: Grout: 410-414; Weiss: #61, 62 (Reaction due), 63, 68

Listening: George Frideric Handel Giulio Cesare: Act II, Scene 2: "V’adoro pupille" (NAWM 83)

Handel’s Oratorios (11/3)&

Reading: Grout: 414-417; Weiss: #69 (Reaction due)

Listening: George Frideric Handel Saul: Act II, Scene 10 (NAWM 84)

George Frideric Handel Messiah, Part I: Nos. 1-4 (Overture through "And the Glory of the Lord" and 13-17 (Pifa through "Glory to God") and Part III, ("I Know that My Redeemer Liveth" and "Since by Man"(Reserve CD)

Introduction to the Classical Era (11/5)&

Reading: Grout: 420-432; Weiss: #73 (Reaction due), 75, 77, 79 (Reaction due)

Listening: None

Unit III: The Classical Era

Comic Opera (11/7)&

Reading: Grout: 432-445; Weiss: # 78 (Reaction due)

Listening: Giovanni Pergolesi La serva padrona: recitative and aria: "Ah quanto mi sa male/Son imbrogliato io" (NAWM 85)

Johann Adolf Hasse Cleofide: Act II, Scene 9: "Digli ch'io son fedele" (NAWM 86)

John Gay The Beggar's Opera: Scenes 11 to 13 (NAWM 87)

Opera and Opera Reform (11/10)&

Reading: Grout: 445-450; Weiss: # 82 (Reaction due)

Listening: Christoph Willibald Gluck Orfeo: Act II, Scene 1 (excerpt) (NAWM 88)

Classical Genres: Sonata (11/12)&

Reading: Grout: 450-453; Weiss: #64, 67 (Reaction due)

Listening: Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in D Major, K. 119 (NAWM 89)

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Sonata in A Major, Wq. 55/4: Second Movement (NAWM 91)

Exam II (11/14)

Classical Genres: The Symphony (11/17)&

Reading: Grout: 453-456; Weiss: #80 (Reaction due)

Listening: Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz Sinfonia a 8 in E-flat Major ("La Melodia Germanica") No. 3: First Movement (NAWM 92)

Giovanni Battista Sammartini Symphony in F, J-C No. 32: First Movement (NAWM 90)

Classical Genres: Concerto & Quartet (11/15)&

Reading: Grout: 456-460

Listening: Johann Christian Bach Concerto for Harpsichord or Piano and Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 7, No. 5: First Movement (NAWM 93)

Franz Joseph Haydn and His Symphonies (11/19)&

Reading: Grout: 465-476; Weiss: #81, 87, 88 (Reaction due)

Listening: Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 56 in C Major: First Movement (NAWM 94)

Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 92: Adagio (NAWM 95)

Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 104: Fourth Movement (NAWM 96)

Haydn’s Quartets and Vocal Music (11/21)&

Reading: Grout: 476-488

Listening: Franz Joseph Haydn String Quartet Op. 33, No. 2: Finale (NAWM 97)

Franz Joseph Haydn String Quartet Op. 76, No. 3: Second Movement (NAWM 98)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Early Works & Quartets (11/24)&

Reading: Grout: 488-498; Weiss: #85 (Reaction due)

Listening: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in G Major, K. 387, IV (Reserve CD)

Thanksgiving--No Class (11/26)

Reading: George Bush: The Major Speeches

Listening: Kenny G: The Hard Bop Sessions

Mozart’s Symphonies, and Concertos (12/1)&

Reading: Grout: 498-505, Weiss: #86 (Reaction due)

Listening: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony in C Major, K. 551, "Jupiter" (Reserve CD)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488: First Movement (NAWM 99)

Mozart's Operas (12/3)&

Reading: Grout: 505-509

Listening: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Don Giovanni: Act I, Scene 5: "A chi mi dice mai" and "Madamina! Il catalogoè questo" (NAWM 100)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Early Works (12/5)&

Reading: Grout: 513-522; Weiss: #90 (Reaction due)

Listening: Muzio Clementi Sonata in G Minor, Op. 34, No. 2: Largo e sostenuto—Allegro fuoco

Ludwig van Beethoven Piano sonata Op. 13: Third Movement (NAWM 101)

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21 (Reserve CD)

The Heroic Beethoven: The Middle Period (12/8)&

Reading: Grout: 522-533; Weiss: #91 (Reaction due), 92

Listening: Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, "Eroica": Allegro con brio (first movement) (NAWM 103)

The Heroic Beethoven: The Late Period (12/10)&

Reading: Grout: 533-539; Weiss: #93, 94 (Reaction due)

Listening: Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet in C# Minor, op. 131 (NAWM 104)

Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in E Major, op. 109 (Reserve CD)

Texts

Donald J. Grout and Claude V. Palisca. A History of Western Music, 5th ed. New York: Norton, 1996. (Grout)

Claude V. Palisca. Norton Anthology of Western Music, 3rd Edition, Volumes I and II. New York: Norton, 1996. (NAWM)

Pierro Weiss and Richard Taruskin. Music in the Western World: A History in Documents.New York: Schirmer, 1984. (Weiss) Required summaries marked in syllabus, due on day of lecture.

Taruskin, Richard. "On Letting the Music Speak for Itself," and "The Limits of Authenticity." in Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 1995, pp. 51-82.

Bowers, Jane and Judith Tick, ed. Women Making Music, The Western Art Tradition. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1986

One-page (typed) summary for each article due on day of exam, covering the following points:

What is the main point of the article?
What method or evidence does the author use to prove her point?
What is the significance of the information presented?
What is your reaction to the article?

First Exam:
Bowers, Jane . "The Emergence of Women Composers in Italy, 1566-1700," 116-167.

Rosand, Ellen. "The Voice of Barbara Strozzi," 168-190.

Second Exam:
Sadie, Julie Anne. "Musiciennes of the Ancien Régime," 191-223.

Final Exam:
Citron, Marcia J. "Women and the Lied, 1775-1850," 224-248.