M653: Baroque music, Spring 2002
Indiana University School of Music
M340, TTh 1-2.15
Daniel R. Melamed dmelamed (AT) indiana.edu
Tue 25 Feb 12. Sacred concerto in Germany II
Thu 27 Feb 13. Italian cantata and oratorio
Tue 5 Mar 14. Italian opera
Thu 7 Mar 15. Sonata I
BREAK
Tue 19 Mar 16. Concerto I Paper stage 3 due
Thu 21 Mar 17. Concerto II
Tue 26 Mar 18. Concerto III
Thu 28 Mar 19. Sonata II
Tue 2 Apr HOUR EXAM
Thu 4 Apr 20. Keyboard music in France and
Germany
Paper stage 4 due
Tue 9 Apr 21. Opera in France and Italy
Thu 11 Apr 22. Church cantatas by
Buxtehude and Bach
Tue 16 Apr 23. Church cantatas by
Bach and Telemann
Paper stage 5 due
Thu 18 Apr 24. Bach's Mass in B minor
Tue 23 Apr 25. Rhetoric: Bach's Musical Offering
Thu 25 Apr 26. Performance practice:
Overdotting
Final paper due
Thu 2 May FINAL HOUR EXAM (12.30-2.30 PM)
Requirements: Reading and listening; class attendance and participation; 3 hour exams; paper. Scores are available in the Norton anthology, volume 1 [N] and in a packet available at Collegiate Copies on 3rd Street. Recordings are available online on Variations. The paper assignment is described here. The texts for the course are available at TIS. Additional readings will be on reserve at the Music Library.
Schulenberg. David Schulenberg, Music of the Baroque. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Strunk/Murata. Margaret Murata, ed. Strunk's source readings in music history. Vol 4. The Baroque era. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.
Supplemental text:
Palisca. Claude Palisca. Baroque music. 3rd edn. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1991.
REPERTORY AND ASSIGNMENTS
Josquin
Desprez, Salve regina
Franz Tunder, Salve coelestis pater
2. First and second practices
Schulenberg 15-39
[Palisca: 1-16]
Strunk/Murata: 2, 3
Rore,
O Sonno (Bk 2 a 4, 1557)
Claudio
Monteverdi, Ohimè, se tanto amate (Bk 4, 1603)
N41 Monteverdi,
Cruda Amarilli (Bk 5, 1605)
N39 Cipriano de
Rore, Datemi pace (Bk 2 a 4, 1557)
3. Solo singing
Schulenberg 40-58
[Palisca: 17-27, 48-56]
Strunk/Murata: 1, 4, 20
N53 Emilio de'
Cavalieri, Dalle più alte sfere (1589)
Luzzaschi, O
primavera (Madrigali per cantare e sonare, 1601)
Luzzaschi, O
dolcezz' amarissime d'amore (Madrigali per cantare e sonare, 1601)
N54 Giulio
Caccini, Perfidissimo volto (Le nuove musiche, 1602)
Caccini,
Amarilli mia bella (Le nuove musiche, 1602)
Sigismondo
D'India,
Torna il sereno zefiro (Musiche Bk 5, 1623)
N59 Monteverdi,
Ohimè, dov'è il mio ben (Bk 7, 1619)
Monteverdi,
Se i languidi miei sguardi (Bk 7, 1619)
4. Monteverdi's eighth book
Schulenberg 59-63, 73-9
Strunk/Murata: 29
Monteverdi,
Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Bk 8, 1638)
Text (with an early 17th-century English translation)
5. Monteverdi's eighth book (cont.)
Monteverdi,
Hor che'l ciel e la terra (Bk 8, 1638)
Monteverdi,
Lamento della Ninfa (Bk 8, 1638)
Questions for study are here. Texts and translations are here.
Optional reading:
Ellen Rosand. "The descending tetrachord: an emblem of lament." Musical
Quarterly 65 (1979): 346-59. [This article refers to Monteverdi, "Lamento
d'Arianna," which you can listen to
here.]
6. Recitative style and opera
Schulenberg 63-73
[Palisca: 30-48]
Strunk/Murata: 19, 27, 28
Jacopo Peri, Le musiche
sopra l'Euridice (1600): Prologue, Scenes I-III
[N55 Prologue,
Nel pur ardor, and Per quel vago boschetto]
Monteverdi, L'Orfeo favola
in musica (1607): Toccata, Prologue, Acts I-II
[N56 Prologue, Vi
ricorda, o boschi ombrosi, In un fiorito prato]
Questions for study are here. Texts are on personal reserve.
7. The legacy of the 16th century
[Palisca: 58-66]
Strunk/Murata: 6
Nicolas
Gombert,
In illo tempore (Il primo libro di motetti a sei voce, 1549)
Monteverdi,
Missa da cappella fatta sopra il motetto In illo tempore dal Gomberto (1610)
Kyrie (Text: N 3)
Giovanni
Gabrieli, Hodie completi sunt (Sacrae symphoniae II, 1615)
Schütz,
Die mit Tränen säen SWV 378 (Geistliche Chormusik, 1648)
Heinrich
Schütz, Così morir debb'io SWV 5 (Il primo libro de madrigali, 1611)
Questions for study are here.
Texts and translations are here.
8. Vocal concertos
Schulenberg 131-140
[Palisca: 66-80]
Strunk/Murata: 21, 22
N61 Gabrieli, In
ecclesiis (Symphoniae Sacrae, 1615)
N62 Lodovico
Viadana, O Domine, Jesu Christe (Cento concerti ecclesiastici, 1602)
N63 Alessandro
Grandi O quam tu pulchra es (Ghirlandia sacra, 1625)
Monteverdi,
Nisi Dominus (Messa a quatro voci et salmi, 1650)
Monteverdi,
Laetatus sum (Messa a quatro voci et salmi, 1650)
Questions for study are here.
Texts and translations are here
[within the texts for Class 9]
9. Monteverdi's Vespers
Monteverdi, Vespro della
Beata Vergine da concerto, composto sopra canti fermi (1610)
Questions for study are here.
Texts and translations are here.
10. Lute and keyboard music
Schulenberg 209-222
[Palisca: 82-98]
N45 John Dowland,
Flow, my tears (Second booke of ayres, 1600)
N47 William
Byrd, Pavana Lachrymae (Fitzwilliam virginal book)
Girolamo
Frescobaldi, Partite sopra l'aria della Romanesca (Toccate d'intavolatura,
1615/1637)
Byrd,
Variations on John, come kiss me now (Fitzwilliam virginal book)
Jan P.
Sweelinck, Fantasia chromatica
N68 Frescobaldi,
Toccata No. 3 (Toccate d'intavolatura, 1637)
Claudio
Merulo, Toccata decima del 10. tono (Toccate d'intavolatura d'organo 2, 1604)
Byrd,
Passamezzo pavan, and Galliard (Fitzwilliam virginal book)
Frescobaldi,
Recercar no. 9 (Recercari et canzoni franzese, 1615)
Questions for study are here.
11. Sacred concerto in Germany I
Schulenberg 140-148
[Palisca: 100-12]
Johann
Hermann Schein, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Opella nova, 1618) [Not in
Library]
N65 Heinrich
Schütz,
Saul, was verfolgst du mich? SWV 415 (Symphoniae sacrae III, 1650)
Schütz, O
quam tu pulchra es SWV 265 (Symphoniae sacrae I, 1629)
Part 2: Veni de Libano SWV 266
Texts and translations are here.
12. Sacred concerto in Germany II
Schütz, Was hast du verwirket SWV 307 (Kleine geistliche Concerte II, 1639)
Schütz,
Psalm 121 SWV 31 (Psalmen Davids, 1619)
Nicolaus
Bruhns, Erstanden ist der heilige Christ
Texts and translations are here.
13. Italian cantata and oratorio
Schulenberg 110-126, 148-156
[Palisca: 114-128]
N60 Barbara
Strozzi: Lagrime mie
Giacomo
Carissimi, Historia di Jephte
[N64 Plorate
colles, Plorate filii Israel]
Texts and translations are here.
14. Italian opera
Schulenberg 79-87,
[Palisca: 128-142]
Strunk/Murata: 9, 23
Claudio Monteverdi,
L'incoronazione di Poppea: Act I
[N57 Act I, Scene
3]
Marc' Antonio Cesti,
Orontea: Act II
[N58 Act II, Scene
17: Intorno all' idol mio]
15. Sonata I
Schulenberg 260-292
[Palisca: 145-63]
Biagio
Marini, La Cornera
(Affetti musicali, 1617)
N76 Giovanni
Legrenzi, La Raspona
(Sonate a due, a tre, libro primo, 1655)
N77 Corelli,
Sonata Op. 3/2
(Sonate a tre, 1689)
alternative
recording
Questions for study are here.
16. Concerto I
Schulenberg 292-301
[Palisca: 163-75]
Strunk/Murata: 7
Georg Muffat,
Sonata No. 5,
(Armonico tributo, 1682)
N78 Antonio
Vivaldi, Concerto Op. 3/2
(L'estro armonico, 1711) alternative
recording
N79 Vivaldi,
Concerto Op. 9/2
(La cetra, 1727) alternative
recording
Questions for study are here.
17. Concerto II
Schulenberg 301-306
Bach,
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 BWV 1050
Questions for study are here.
Bach, Ouverture in B minor BWV 1067
Questions for study are here.
19. Sonata II
Schulenberg 307-321
[Palisca: 157-63]
Johann
Sebastian Bach, Sonata in B minor BWV 1030
Georg
PhilippTelemann, Sonata no. 1 in A major
(Quadri, 1730)
Questions for study are here.
20. Keyboard music in France and Germany
Schulenberg 222-259
[Palisca: 177-219]
Denis
Gaultier, Suite II
(La rethorique des dieux, c1652)
N75 Couperin,
Vingt-cinquième ordre
N67 Johann Jakob Froberger,
Lamentation faite sur la mort . . . de . . . Ferdinand le troisième
Dieterich Buxtehude, Auf
meinen lieben Gott BuxWV 179
N82 Bach, Durch Adams Fall BWV
543
21. Opera in France and Italy
Schulenberg 89-109, 157-180
[Palisca: 221-46]
Strunk/Murata: 5, 10, 26
Jean-Baptiste Lully,
Armide: Act II
[N70 Ouverture and Act II, Scene
5: Enfin il est en ma puissance]
Jean-Philippe Rameau,
Hippolyte et Aricie: Act IV, Scenes 1-2
[N80 Act IV, Scene 1: Ah!
faut'il]
N69 Alessandro Scarlatti,
Griselda: Act II, Scene 1: Mi rivedi,
o selva ombrosa
Supplemental texts and translations are
here.
22. Church cantatas by Buxtehude and Bach
[Palisca: 318-327]
Dietrich Buxtehude, Singet
dem Herrn BuxWV 98
Bach, Gott
ist mein König BWV 71
Texts and translations are here. Questions for study are here.
23. Church cantatas by Bach and Telemann
Schulenberg 181-199
[Palisca: 327-36]
Telemann,
Weg mit Sodoms gift'gen Fruchten (Harmonischer Gottesdienst, 1725)
Bach, Jesu,
der du meine Seele BWV 78
Text and translation here.
24. J. S. Bach's Mass in B minor
Bach, Mass in
B Minor BWV 232: Credo
[N84
Et in Spiritum sanctum,
Confiteor, and Et expecto]
[There is good introductory material to the Mass in John Butt, Bach: Mass in B Minor (Cambridge, 1991) .]
25. Rhetoric: Bach's Musical Offering
Christoph Wolff. “New research on Bach’s Musical Offering.” In Bach: essays on his life and music, 239–58. Cambridge, Mass., 1991.
Ursula Kirkendale. “The source for Bach’s Musical Offering: the Institutio oratoria of Quintilian.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 33 (1980): 88–141.
26. Performance practice: Overdotting
Frederick Neumann. "The overdotting syndrome: anatomy of a delusion." In Essays in performance practice, 151-82. Ann Arbor, 1982.
Dirst, Matthew. "Bach's French overtures and the politics of overdotting." Early music 25, no. 1 (1997): 35-44.
Bach, Ouverture No. 1 BWV 1066: Ouverture
Collegium Aureum Musica Antiqua Köln
Bach, Ouverture No. 3 BWV 1068: Ouverture
Collegium Aureum Musica Antiqua Köln