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Directions:

Our ebook reading covers three major composers of the late Baroque

era: Vivaldi, J.S. Bach, and Handel.

For our researched Graded Discussion, find one piece of music by one

of these “big three” composers, and one piece of music by a less well

known composer from the same era to compare.

You'll focus your listening, research and writing on just one movement of each of the two pieces.

Main Post: 80 points (approx. 750-800 words)

Your main post must include accurate, clear info for each of the two

tracks:

● Name of each composer. (one of the big three, and one that is

less well known)

● Title of each piece and movement number or title (if from a

multi-movement work)

● Approx. date of composition for each

● Accurate url to each track, that take the reader directly to the specific movement. (you may use Naxos or YouTube. Naxos is much easier to link to the exact track).

● Background info about each piece. Was it composed for a special occasion or for a particular performer or performing

group? Was it unusual for its time, or is it a typical example of the

period and the genre. Create a brief listening map for each track,

with 2-3 three track timings and musical description of what you

think is interesting and important in the music to share with

readers of your post.

● Be sure to include a brief bibliography of your sources at the end of your post! Please make it a list of urls you used that your fellow students can also consult as they read your main post.

Reply post: 20 points (approx. 200 words)

After making your main post, an interactive reply post to the main post of another student is required.

Make a point of carefully listening to the music in the other students post.

Comment on how it compares or contrasts with one or both of the pieces

you selected. Look up and share a link that you feel is relevant to that

student’s post. To earn full credit the reply post must include this level of

evident interaction with the other student's main post.

More info and suggestions:

Your comparison will be most effective if you choose similar genres

(kinds of pieces), and similar movements. For instance, if you select a

violin concerto by Vivaldi for your discussion post, then find a violin

concerto by a less well known Baroque composer. From each of the two

violin concertos, select the same kind of movement - compare the first

movement of the Vivaldi concerto with the first movement of the other

concerto. ( Or, compare the second movement of one with the second

movement of the other.) Another example would be to compare one

movement of a Handel oratorio with a movement of an oratorio or

cantata or mass by a less well known Baroque composer. Ideally,

choose an aria from each, or a chorus from each. The more closely

related the movements are that you choose to compare, the more

evident it is to the reader that you did the research and listening to be

knowledgeable about the music you selected.

Please DON’T try to cover an entire large genre in your main post.

Select just one movement from each piece and say more about less

music. The expectation is that once you’ve selected a movement, you’ll

listen to it many times as you get to know it well and find things to say for

your listening map.

Background info: stay away from long bios of the composers covered in

our ebook. The assumption is that everybody has read that! Bio

information on the less well known composer is more relevant, and you

can compare that to something in the background of the one of the big

three composers. Finding a connection between the composers is

interesting. Or if you prefer, finding a huge contrast between their

backgrounds can make for a nicely researched main post, especially if

the music you choose is carefully compared.

Be very careful about dates. We are considering the Baroque era to be

from 1600-1750. Note that Vivaldi, Bach and Handel lived later in the era

(1685-1750 roughly for all three). If you choose a Baroque composer

who lived earlier than that, you should comment on that difference of a

generation or more. It is easy to find out when a composer lived, and

usually not too hard to get a date for the composition or at least a rough

estimate.

Genre: please do NOT list “classical” as a genre for MUS 301. Genre for

us is the kind of piece. (concerto, trio sonata, oratorio, cantata,

opera…etc). This is a critical concept that most of you understand from

the reading, but every term I see it misused when students copy and

paste info from the streaming music sources. It’s very important at this

point in the term, since we will soon study music from the Classical

period. (1750-1800). It is so important, that 25 points will be subtracted for using the term "classical" improperly in your post.

The piece and movement you choose from Vivaldi, Bach or Handel

should not be the same as one covered in the ebook listening maps.

You can pick something similar but obviously it is expected that you do

some searching and listening that is fresh, not a summary of what

everyone has already read and listened to in the ebook.

Music urls:

Don’t make your reader hunt and scroll to find your music! You’ll

appreciate other students’ accurate urls when you’re working on a reply

post, too. It is extremely important that the url for each piece goes

precisely to the movement you write about in your post. It is not OK to

post an album url to a long opera, oratorio or a full sonata or concerto

and then expect your reader to scroll through. Plus, that implies you

didn't listen much to the piece as you wrote your post.

Using YouTube? If you are comparing an internal movement of a longer

piece, be sure your shared url starts at the right place. It comes up at the

bottom of the dialog box when you get the shareable YouTube url, where

it indicates “start at:” I suggest you create that precise starting point url

before you write your post, and bookmark or save it somewhere for

yourself, since you’ll need to listen and re-listen to the same movement

as you creat your listening map.

Using Naxos? Please note: this is the easier way to search and find specific movements. Make sure to get the static url to exactly the track you intend to write about. That is an extra step, click the “show static url”

button on the left and copy that carefully for your own notes and your

post. Refer to the Fun With Naxos tutorial in our PSU D2L content.

Finding the ‘less well known’ Baroque composer:

Here are a few urls that came up for me when running Google

searches. You’re welcome to find your own. I used search terms such

as Baroque Music Composers, Female Composers Baroque,

Composers Latin America Baroque, and so forth. As with any research,

you'll find other sources or think of better, more specific search terms as

you start to narrow your focus.

This is a good starting point to find some Baroque composers:

https://bachtrack.com/baroque-month-top-six-women-composers-march-

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