Baroque Period

Question 1

1610 Vespers

Answer 1

Monteverdi, demonstrating both prima and seconda prattica
Publication includes: 1 mass, 5 psalm settings, 1 hymn, 5 motets, 2 Magnificats
Modern performances often omit the mass and the simpler of the magnificats and present “Vespro della beata virgine”

Question 2

Monteverdi Madrigals

Answer 2

8 books of madrigals, 4 prima prattica and 4 seconda

Question 3

Giacomo Garissimi

Answer 3

17th c Italian
Initiated ans shaped development of the oratorio throughout Europe during Baroque period
Most famous oratorio: Jeptha

Question 4

Alessandro Scarlatti

Answer 4

Exultate Deo (Motet)

Question 5

Antonio Lotti

Answer 5

Miserere

Vere Languores

Question 6

Antonio Vivaldi

Answer 6

Gloria (1713) from larger mass that is lost

Juditha (oratorio)

Question 7

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Answer 7

2 Masses both consisting of only Kyries and Glorias, as was custom in Naples.

Question 8

Lully

Answer 8

17th c. French
10 Grand Motets for double chorus, soloists strings and continuo (Te Deum) and 14 Petite Motets (smaller number of soloists and continuo)

Question 9

Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Answer 9

Midnight Mass for Christmas

The Denial of St. Peter (Oratorio)

Question 10

Purcell

Answer 10

Anthems (Rejoice in the Lord Alway/Bell Anthem)
Services
Odes
Operas (Dido and Aeneas)

Question 11

Handel non oratorios

Answer 11

4 Coronation Anthems
11 Chandos Anthems
3 Latin Psalm Settings

Question 12

Handel Occasional Works

Answer 12

Utrecht Te Deum
Dettingen Te Deum
Foundling Hospital Anthem

Question 13

Handel Oratorios

Answer 13

Israel In Egypt
Messiah
Samson
Judas Maccabaeus

Question 14

Schutz

Answer 14

Three Passions
Musicalische Exequien
Psalmen Davids
Deutsches Magnificat

Question 15

Johann Schein

Answer 15

Christ Lag in Todes Banden

Question 16

Samuel Scheidt

Answer 16

4 magnificat settings

Question 17

Buxtehude

Answer 17

Cantatas (In Dulci Jubilo)
Jesu Meine Freude
(SSB, 2 violins and Continuo was typical Bux instrumentation)

Question 18

JS Bach Cantatas

Answer 18

Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 4)
Der Herr denket an uns (BWV 196)
Ein Feste Burg ist unser Gott (BWV 80)
Nun danket alle Gott (BWV 192) for wedding, only 12 min long.

Question 19

Bach Latin works

Answer 19

B Minor Mass

One Magnificat in two versions (earlier Eb and then revised in D, which is more popular today)

Question 20

Bach Oratorios

Answer 20

St. Matthew Passion
St. John Passion
Easter Oratorio
Christmas Oratorio
Ascension Oratorio

Question 21

Bach Motets (BWV 225-230)

Answer 21

Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (BWV 225)

Jesu meine Freude (BWV 227