Module 6 Flashcards
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Baroque Operas
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- Spectacular, high-budget affairs
- Special effects
- Snazzy costumes
- Scandalous stars
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Rinaldo (1711 Handel)
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-A smash hit in London
3
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Giulio Cesare
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-Retold the story of Caesar and Cleopatra
4
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Elector of Hannover
King George I of England
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- Elicited Handel as an aristocrat for composing music
- Handel decided to become a British subject
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Music for the Royal Fireworks
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- A brassy, spectacular set of outdoor pieces written for a firework show and treaty celebration in 1749
- More than 12,000 people attended creating an 18th century traffic jam that closed London Bridge for hours than during the performance of Fireworks malfunction, the stage caught fire and the giant audience competed for the exist
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John Gaze
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- The Beggar’s Opera competed for the rise of Handel’s success
- The show combined spoken lines with catchy popular style songs, much like a Broadway musical
- The songs were in English
- The characters were hilarious criminals
- The shows satire eyes, overblown the style of Italian operas
- Was a big hit with rising middle class who started to demand accessible English-language music instead of Italian operas
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Handle solution
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- Write English-language oratorios instead of operas
- An oratorio is a large-scale piece of music for choir, orchestra and vocal soloists, which tells a story without staging or costumes
- Most are based on stories from the Bible
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Deborah
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- Handle’s first successful oratorio
- An auditorium about a female leader and warrior from the Bible’s Book of Judges
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Saul
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- Another oratorio by Handle
- A story of ambitious conflicted Old Testament King and Israel and Egypt, which dramatized the biblical story of Moses and the Exodus
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Messiah
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- Handel’s greatest commercial success and the most popular oratorio of all times
- Charles Lennens created an unique oratorio text; he complied passages from the Bible’s Old and New Testaments to recount the life of Jesus, Handel must have been excited about the project because in a remarkable burst of genius, he composed the entire oratorio in less than 30 days
- Wrote the work for an Easter performance
- Was a huge hit when premiered in Dublin, Ireland on April 13, 1742
- Audiences always stand during the performances of Handle’s magnificent Halleluiah Chorus
- Handel performed Messiah at the Foundling Hospital Chapel an orphanage in London
- Some say he chose the orphanage as receiver charity because he never had children of his own
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Judas Maccabees (1746) Jephtha (1752
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-Dramatic pieces that Handle wrote after Messiah
12
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Counterpoint
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- Several melodies playing simultaneously
- Pipe organ was a popular Baroque instrument due to the several melodies
13
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Bach
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- Masters the organ at a young age
- By the age of eighteen he already has a job as a organist
- He best know job was playing church music
- From 1725 to the end of his life he served as a Canter at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany
- He wrote scared music one of his most famous sacred works is his St. Matthew Passion, a dramatic musical retelling of the death of Jesus
- Wrote harpsichord sets called The Well-Tempered Clavier
- He owned several coffee makers and wrote a piece called Coffee Cantata all about the wonders about caffeine.
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Fugue
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- A contrapuntal genre
- It means melodies that chase each other through various keys and melodic ranges
- Bach’s Toccata and Fugue on D minor, one of his most recognizable works
- A piece of music that uses interwoven melodies based on a single musical idea
- The melody is introduced by one voice and is introduced voice by voice
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Chorale Prelude
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- An organ arrangement of a Lutheran hymn called a chorale
- Bach’s chorale preludes often combine a traditional hymn tune with a counter melody
