History Assignment Music
Unit 2 – Baroque #2
Chap. 15 - Music for Chamber & Church Chap. 16 - France, England, Spain & Russia Chap. 17 - Italy & Germany
MUSI 1307 – MUSIC LITERATURE
In this lecture, we will cover…
Music for Chamber & Church in the early 17th Century
Oratorios
Instrumental Chamber Music
France, England, Spain & Russia
Italy & Germany
Use of basso continuo & ground bass
Descending tetrachords – used for lament
Chacona
Cantata
Barbara Stozzi (1619-1677) – “Lagrime mie” – LISTENING #1
Music for Chamber & Church in the Early 17th Century
Example of Descending Tetrachord:
Music for the Church (continued)
Stile antico & stile modern
Sacred concertos
Oratorios – 17th century Rome
Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674)
“Plorate colles” (recitative) from Historia di Jephthe (ca. 1648) – LISTENING #2
Heinrich Schutz (1586-1672)
Historia – “The Seven Last Words of Christ”
Passions
Instrumental Chamber Music
Solo Works
Chamber works (solo or small group with continuo)
Large ensemble works (for 2 or more players per part)
Types of instrumental music from 1600-1650:
Improvisational style (toccata, fantasia or prelude)
Fugal works (ricecar, fantasia, capriccio, fugue)
Pieces with contrasting sections (canzona or sonata)
Settings of existing melodies (organ verse or chorale prelude)
Pieces that vary a given melody (variations, partita), choral (chorale variations, chorale partita) or bass line (partita, chaconne, passacaglia)
Dances as independent piece or linked together in a suite
Types of instrumental music from 1600-1650:
Improvisational style (toccata, fantasia or prelude)
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Frescobaldi Toccata No. 3 (1615) – LISTEN
Fugal works (ricecar, fantasia, capriccio, fugue)
Pieces with contrasting sections (canzona or sonata)
Biagio Marini (1593-1663) – opus
Sonata IV - LISTEN
Settings of existing melodies (organ verse or chorale prelude)
Pieces that vary a given melody (variations, partita), choral (chorale variations, chorale partita) or bass line (chaconne, passacaglia)
Dances as independent piece or linked together in a suite
Frescobaldi
Music in France (17th century)
King Louis XIV of France - “24 Violins of the King”
Orchestra
Choreography
Jean Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
Comedies-ballets, tragedie-lyrique & divertissements
French overture
Notes inegales & Agreements
Lully’s opera, Armide
Overture – LISTENING #3
Act II, Scene 5, « Enfin il est en ma puissance » - LISTEN
Lully
Music in France (continued)
Airs – Air de cour & Air serieux
French School of Organ Music
Clavecin/Harpsichord
Francois Couperin (1668-1733)
Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729)
Style luthe or style brise
Dance suites - ACSG
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Gigue
Guerre Suite No. 3 - LISTEN
Minuet
Gavotte
Passepied
Bouree
Prelude/Overture
Music in England (17th century)
Masques
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Dido and Aeneus, “When I am Laid in Earth” (1689) – LISTENING #4
Lyrics: When I am laid, am laid in earth, may my wrongs create No trouble, no trouble in, in thy breast. When I am laid, am laid in earth, may my wrongs create No trouble, no trouble in, in thy breast. Remember me, remember me, but ah! Forget my fate. Remember me, but ah! Forget my fate. Remember me, remember me, but ah! Forget my fate. Remember me, but ah! Forget my fate.
Jessye Norman (1945-2019) – dramatic soprano
Music in Spain & the New World (17th century)
Spanish rule the colonies in the Americas
Zarzauela
Tiento – similar to fantasia - LISTEN
Music of Russia (17th century)
Russian Orthodox Church – Byzantine empire roots
1652 – Nikon, head of church
Kontsert
Kant - LISTEN
Tsar Peter the Great – ruled in 1698-1725
St. Petersburg – capital in 1703
Music in Italy (17th century)
Da Capo Aria
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
“Si, si ben mio” from Clor vezzosa - LISTENING
Antonio Stradivari (ca. 1644-1737)
Sonatas
Sonata da camera
Sonata da chiesa
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Trio Sonatas – Op. 3 No. 2 – LISTEN
Church Sonatas
Chamber Sonatas
Solo Violin Sonatas
Chamber vs. Orchestra
Instrumental concerto
Concerto grosso
Music in Italy (continued)
Music of Germany (17th century)
Dieterich Buxtehude (ca. 1637-1707) – Lutheran composer
Protestant organ music = prelude for liturgy
Chorale preludes, toccatas, preludes with fugues
Buxtehude Toccata in E Major - LISTEN
Fugue
Subject, Answer, Episodes
Zipoli Fugetta in E Minor
Zipoli: Fugetta in E Minor
Key: ___ Minor
Tonic: I = _____
Dominant: V = ______
Zipoli: Fugetta in E Minor
Key: ___ Minor
Tonic: I = _____
Dominant: V = ______
Subject in Tonic (I) Em
Subject in Dominant (V) BM M
Episode (sequence)
Next:
Buxtehude Toccata in E Major – LISTEN
Listen for the fugal melody and identify them as they are played
E
E
B
Click here to watch a nice video about the fugue.
Assignment for this week:
Read Grout textbook Chap. 16-17
Listen to the recordings for this week
Assignment #4
Discussion #3