CLASS: Nov 12, 2018--MISSING LECTURE

Question 1

Answer 1

Question 2

Describe trends in instrumental music in the seventeenth century

Answer 2

Specifically define the early Sonata

Question 3

Specifically define the early Sonata

Question 4

Review Questions

• Compare/contrast the vocal genres of the early 17th century: musical tale, opera, oratorio, cantata, and sacred concerto.

Question 5

Review Questions

• Which composers/cities do we affiliate with each 17th-c vocal genre (musical tale, opera, oratorio, sacred concerto, Italian cantata)?

Question 6

Answer 6

Question 7

Early 17th-c Instrumental Genres

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Early 17th-c Instrumental Genres

• Truly instrumental genres
• Score notation (partitura) or a pair of
• staves
• Genres
  
  • Dances: corrente, balletto
  • Ground Bass: Passacaglia, ciaccona
  • Variations
  • Improvisation

Answer 8

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1598-1688)

• • Toccata (tocar = to play)
  
  • Virtuosic
  • Free and open in form
  • Discontinuity
  • Example: Frescobaldi, Toccata No. 3
    
    • Sectional: Unfolds in brief phrases
    • Recitative-like sounding moments (jagged lines, nervous rhythms)
    • Contrasting moods

Question 9

82 Talk about this piece

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Question 10

Early 17th c: The Debut of the Sonata

Answer 10

Early 17th c: The Debut of the Sonata

• Inventive Genre: no restraints
  
  • Free form
  • Can be any number of movements
  • Can include dance movements or abstract movements
  • Can be for instrumental ensemble or solo instrument

Question 11

84 Talk about this piece

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Answer 12

The Debut of the Sonata

• Example: Biagio Marini, Sonata IV per il violino per sonare con due corde
• Sectional, each with a different “mood”
• Idiomatic for violin (figuration)
• Monodic texture resonates with contemporary vocal style