Baroque

Question 1

Heinrich Schütz

Answer 1

• 1585 – 1672 - German, Baroque
• Studied with Giovanni Gabrieli – Venetian style to Germany
• 3 passions: Matthew, Luke, John
• Seven Last Words
• German Requiem – Musikalische Exequien
• 25 Psalms settings – Psalms of David
• 27 Symphonie Sacre – 1647

Question 2

Johann Hermann Schein

Answer 2

• 1586 – 1630 - German Baroque
• 1616 – Leipzig – music director at St. Thomas Kirche and Nicholai Kirche
• Cymbalum Sionium (1615) – 30 motets in Latin and German
• Opella Nova (1618) – collection of sacred concertos with continuo
• Fontana d’Israel or Iraelis Brunlein (1623) – collection of sacred pieces composed in the style of the Italian madrigal

Question 3

Samuel Scheidt

Answer 3

• 1587 – 1654 - German – early Baroque
• Studied with Sweelinck and Praetorius
• Worked in Halle for 30 years
• 147 German motets, 2 masses
• 6 Magnificats, 28 Latin Motets

Question 4

Adrian Batten

Answer 4

• 1591 – 1637
• English, Baroque
• Approx. 8 English Services
• Approx. 50 Anthems
• Representative: O Sing Joyfully

Question 5

Baroque Art

Answer 5

• El Greco, Caravaggio, Rubens
• Velozquez, Rembrandt
• Vermeer, Bernini – Architect – Rome

Question 6

1600 – 1650

Answer 6

Oratorio and Cantata develop

Question 7

Giacomo Carissimi

Answer 7

• 1605 – 1674, Italian, Baroque
• 15 Latin Oratorios
• 100+ cantatas
• Representative: Jepthe (Jeptha)

Question 8

1607

Answer 8

Jamestown settlement

Question 9

1618 – 1648

Answer 9

• 30-years war

Gabrieli and Monteverdi – Venice polyphony

Question 10

Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Answer 10

• 1636 – 1704 - French, Baroque
• 12 masses – including 3 Requiems
• 8 cantatas
• 430 motets and other sacred works
• Representative: Midnight Mass

Question 11

Dietrich Buxtehude

Answer 11

• 1637 – 1707 - German, Baroque
• 128 surviving works, mostly small-scale and sacred
• Representative: Wachet Auf

Question 12

1648-1700

Answer 12

• Lutherans legalized
• Calvinists
• Huguenots
• Baptists

Question 13

1648 – 1715

Answer 13

• Reign of Louis XIV
  
  • Sun king of France
  • Lully
  • Charpentier
  • Purcell in England

Question 14

Henry Purcell

Answer 14

• 1659 - 1695
• After Byrd, most important English composer of the 17th century
• 63 Anthems (50 verse, 13 full)
• 16 ceremonial Odes, 50 catches
• Representative: Rejoice in the Lord, Alway

Question 15

Antonio Lotti

Answer 15

• 1667 – 1740
• Venice, Italy – Baroque to Classical
• Vocal music – a cappella, sounds like earlier music
• 13 oratorios
• 10 complete masses and numerous mass movements
• Approx. 30 motets
• Representative: Crucifixus

Question 16

Antonio Vivaldi

Answer 16

• 1675 – 1741 - Venice, Italy – Baroque
• Much of his music was thought to be lost until the early 20th century
• 7 masses, 31 Psalm settings, 21 motets
• 3 oratorios

Question 17

Georg Philipp Telemann

Answer 17

• 1681 – 1767 - German, Baroque
• 1000 sacred cantatas
• Dozens of secular cantatas
• 53 passions, 8 oratorios, 20 masses
• 9 collections of Psalms and motets, 12 masses
• Representative; Nun danket alle Gott

Question 18

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Answer 18

• 1683 – 1764 - French, Baroque
• Greatest French composer of 18th Century
• Theorist
• Cantatas, Operas
• 4 motet collections, 4 extant motets
• Harpsichord music

Question 19

J. S. Bach

Answer 19

• 1685 – 1750 - German, Baroque
• 1700 – Lüenburg, 1707 – Mülhausen,
• 1717 Anhalt-Köthen, 1723 – Leipzig
• 215 extant cantatas (composed over 300)
• 6 motets
• 4 Lutheran masses, B Minor Mass, 1 Magnificat (2 versions)
• 2 Passions (St. Matthew and St. John)

Question 20

George Frideric Handel

Answer 20

• 1685 – 1759
• Baroque, German, Career in England
• 21 Oratorios, 11 Chandos Anthems, 4 Coronation Anthems
• 3 Latin Psalms, 10 Odes, One Masque and One Passion