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Pietro Francesco

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Leading composer after Monteverdi
Wrote 33 operas - Giasone (most famous)
Strophic arias

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Antonio Cesti

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15 operas
Arias (mostly strophic)
Arioso style
Comic scenes

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Arioso Style

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Style of recitative (NOT aria) w/more passion/expression that provides more melodic interest and faster-moving basso continuo

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Alessandro Scarlatti

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Composed over 40 operas
Drama per musica
Standardized recitative-aria pairing
La Griselda (his last surviving opera)

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Drama per musica

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Serious plots w/happy endings
Historical or imaginary characters
Short arias

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Baroque Italian Opera Style

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Tightened plots
Separation of material
Opera Seria
Sinfonia (Italian opera overture; only instrumental music in Italian opera; Fast, Slow, Fast)
No chorus
Secco Recitative
Arioso style
Da capo aria
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Francois Couperin

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Most important French suite/ordre composer
Pieces de Clavecin
L’art de toucher le clavecin (“The Art of Playing the Harpsichord)

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Pieces de Clavecin

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Francois Couperin
4-24mvt suite
Same tonality (D, D minor, etc.)
Fanciful titles
Select pieces for performance (not required to perform all 24 at a time)
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L’art de toucher le clavecin (“The Art of Playing the Harpsichord)

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Couperin
Proper performance of embellishments/agreements
Standardization of agreements and symbols

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Arcangelo Corelli

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Outstanding composer of sonata
The first to be known as a composer of the “modern” era
Clear key tonality w/no trace of modality
Earliest composer to write exclusively in major-minor tonality
5 sets of 12 sonatas

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Sonata de Chiesa

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Arcangelo Corelli
Used as filler between mass movements or as the postlude
Usually had fugal writing
Four movements set as Slow-Fast-Slow-Fast
Basso Continuo type 2
Violone w/organ continuo

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Sonata da Camera

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Arcangelo Corelli
Used in court for diversion or entertainment
Stylized dance movements that began w/a preludio followed by several dance movements
Basso continuo type 2
Violone w/harpsichord accompaniment

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Antonio Vivaldi

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The master of Baroque Italian Concerto
Ospedale della Pieta–girl’s orphanage
Teacher, Composer, and Music director
Recognizable tutti theme used to hold the piece together

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Johann Sebastian Bach

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  • Church organist in Weimar and Cöthen
  • Weimar–Court Organist/Konzertmeister for Duke Wilhelm; Wrote Orgel Buchlein, chorale arrangements for organ based on the liturgical calendar; wrote English suites
  • Cöthen–Kapellmeister for Prince Leopold; secular duties rather than sacred; 6 cello suites; 6 sonatas and partitas for violin; 6 Brandenburg concertos; 2 Orchestral suites; Clavier-Buchlien, written for his son Wilhelm Friedman; Early versions of inventions, sinfonias, preludes, and fugues
  • Anna Magdalena Notebook
  • Kantor at Thomasschule and Music Director of Leipzig (supervised music for 4 churches, oversaw music for civic occasions)
  • 5 complete cycles of church music
  • Cantatas
  • Passions
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Anna Magdalena Notebook

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Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue
Well-Tempered Clavier I
Demonstration of equal temperament
Division of the octave into twelve equal semitones
In every key possible
Inventions and sinfonias
Written in no more than 4 sharps or 4 flats
Practical keys; keys that students were able to play in

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Discuss Bach’s responsibilities as the Music Director in Leipzig

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4 Churches: St. Peter’s (Unison boys choir, didn’t attend this church), St. Matthew’s (4 part choir, simple chorale settings, didn’t attend this church) and St. Thomas’ and St. Nicholas’ (Polyphonic motets, full-scale cantatas every Sunday, personally attended and conducted at these churches)

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Discuss Bach’s cantatas

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Text comes from Lutheran Bible, chorales, and new compositions (poetry--Picander/Henrici)
-Solos, small choir, orchestra
-6mvts
Opening Chorus
Solo Recitative
Aria/Duet
[sermon]
Recitative
Aria/Duet
Chorale
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Discuss Bach’s passions

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5 total, only 2 survived
St. John Passion
St. Matthew Passion

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Discuss Bach’s Models of Baroque Style

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Well-tempered Clavier (equal temperment, Godlberg variations)
B-minor Mass (displayed transition from stile antico to stile moderno)
Musical Offering (gift for a king)
The Art of the Fuge (his most technically complex composition, greatest practical study of contrapuntal technique, instrumentation wasn’t finished before his death)

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George Friderich Handel

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German and English composer
Worked for the Elector of Hanover (who became King George I of England)
Italian Opera (wrote 40)
Turned to Oratorio

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Discuss Handel’s Italian Operas

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Wrote 40
Subjects-historical, mythological, romantic
Giulio Cesare (His best Italian Opera)
Aria (da capo w/o excessive repetitions; displayed character’s feelings)

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Discuss England’s opinion on Italian Opera

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Didn’t like it because

  • in a foreign language
  • mythological plots
  • castrati
  • turned against it, causing the downfall of the Royal Academy of Music
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Explain the significance of the Royal Academy of Music’s failure

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  • The Beggar’s Opera (J. Gay and J. Pepusch)
  • Performed 61 times
  • Ballad opera (spoken word, popular songs, basso continuo)
  • Political satire and contemporary characters
  • Words in English
  • Simple music
  • No castrati
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Oratorio

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Appealed to bourgeois
No castrati
No sets
Written in English
Subjects based on Bible
Chorus
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Discuss Handel’s oratorio style

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3 acts
Solo recitatives as dialogue
Arias provide expression of individual
Often begins w/French overture
English chorale anthem tradition
Basses have leading roles
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Intermezzo

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Separate works between acts to provide comic relief
2 acts
Simple plots-present day, slapstick
Italian opera style
Reduced orchestra/no overture
La serva padrona by Pergolesi
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Jean-Philippe Rameau

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Traite de l'harmonie (Treaty of Harmony)
Harmony based on triads
Hierarchy of chords
Pivot chord modulation
Melody derived from harmony
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Galant Style

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Response to Baroque style
Implies elegance, grace, charm
Light texture
Single melodic line in short phrases (usually 2mm)
Major keys w/simple harmonies
Sparse voicing in accompaniment
Trommelbass (“drum bass”; rhythmic animation to provide movement in slow harmonic line)

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Domenico Scarlatti

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Song of Alessandro Scarlatti
Keyboard sonatas - predecessor to classical sonata
Single movement in binary form
Clarified structure
Keyboard Master to Maria Barbara
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Trace Recitative

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Jacapo Peri (Stile Rappresentativo)
-New declamatory style w/flexible rhythm
Secco (Dry) Recitative
-Simple, chord-sing-chord-sing
Arioso Style
-more melodic recitative w/faster basso continuo

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Trace (Italian) Aria

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Bel canto (Monteverdi?)
-“Beautiful singing”, slow and resonant
Florid
-more movement and agility/flexibility
Da capo (Scarlati)
-ABA; return to A allows for embelishment

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Trace Opera Overture

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Monteverdi–opening tocatta
3 movement FSF (instrumental music reserved for beginning of opera only)
Sinfonia

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Trace Comic Opera

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Coronation of Poppea, Monteverdi (Comedic scenes)
Plots tightened, comic parts removed resulting in Opera Seria
Intermezzo (2 act work sandwiched into an opera that provided comic relief the public missed)

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