|
Readings
etc.: Abbreviations
G = Grout and Palisca, A History of Western Music, 5th ed.
W & T = Weiss and Taruskin, Music in the Western World: A History
in Documents
[Most of these readings will be found in the course packet; a few are
on reserve.]
NAWM = The Norton Anthology of Western Music, Vol. 1
CD 2; CD 3 etc. = The Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music,
Vol. 1 [On reserve
at Burling Listening Room]
Note: Other recordings are listed individually and are also on reserve
at Burling Listening
Room.
Burling Listening Room Hours: Sun.-Thurs. 1-5 pm, 7-11 pm; Fri. 1-5 pm;
Sat. 1-5 pm
SCHEDULE
OF CLASSES
F/Aug. 25
Intro. to Music 261; intro. to late Renaissance and early Baroque music
M/Aug. 28
The Italian Madrigal: Contexts of Performance
Read: W & T #25: Music in Castiglione's Courtier [PACKET] and
G 193-94
W/Aug. 30
The Italian Madrigal after 1550
Read: W & T #39: Gesualdo, Nobleman Musician [PACKET] and G 196-99
& 202-3 (Gesualdo section only)
Listen:
Gesualdo, "Io
parto e non più dissi"
[CD 2, #51 = NAWM 40]
F/Sept. 1
The Monteverdi-Artusi Controversy
Read: G 203 (bottom)- 205; W & T #45: The "Second Practice"
[PACKET]
Listen:
Monteverdi,
"Cruda Amarilli"
[CD 2, #54 = NAWM 41]
M/Sept. 4
*The concerto delle donne at Ferrara
Read: G 201 ("Women's vocal ensembles")- 203 and Newcomb, "Courtesans,
Muses, or Musicians?" in Women Making Music, pp. 90-101 only
[PACKET]
Listen:
Luzzaschi,
"T'amo mia vita"
Luzzaschi, "Non
sa che sia dolore"
[CD L976se The Secret Music of Luzzasco Luzzaschi #3 & #10]
W/Sept. 5
Analysis assignment (Gesualdo/Monteverdi) due
Chord-Playing Instruments and Basso Continuo: The Florentine Intermedi
of 1589
Read: G 273 ("The Basso Continuo")-277
Listen:
"Dalle
più alte sfere"
[CD 3, #33 = NAWM 53]
Cavalieri,
"O che nuovo miracolo" [SCORE ON RESERVE]
F/Sept. 8
*Female Musicians at Court
Read: Carter, "Finding a Voice: Vittoria Archilei and the Florentine
'New Music'" in Feminism and Renaissance Studies [PACKET]
M/Sept. 11
Giulio Caccini's "New Music": How new was it?
Read: G 281 and W & T #44: The Birth of a "New Music" [PACKET]
Listen:
G. Caccini,
"Perfidissimo volto"
[CD 3, #35 = NAWM 54]
G.
Caccini, "Amor ch'attendi" [SCORE IN PACKET]
W/Sept. 13
Group reading reports
Presentation and discussion of the ideas presented in:
1. Howard Mayer Brown, "The geography of Florentine monody: Caccini
at home and abroad," Early Music 9 (1981): 147-68.
2. Tim Carter, "On the composition and performance of Caccini's Le
nuove musiche (1602)," Early Music 12 (1984): 208-17.
F/Sept. 15
[Last day to select your own research topic/question]
English Secular Music, c1600
Read: G 214-218
Listen:
Weelkes, "O
Care, thou wilt despatch me"
[CD 3, #1 = NAWM 44]
J. Dowland,
"Flow, my tears"
[CD 3, #5 = NAWM 45]
M/Sept. 18
Counter-Reformation Sacred Music: Palestrina
Read: G 249-56
Listen: Palestrina, Pope Marcellus Mass
Credo
& Agnus Dei
[CD 3, #14 = NAWM 49]
W/Sept. 20
Listening Quiz 1
Ceremonial Music at St. Mark's, Venice, c1600
Read: G 299 (bottom)- 301.
Listen:
G. Gabrieli,
"In ecclesis"
[CD 4, #17 = NAWM 61]
F/Sept. 22
Early Baroque Church Music
Read: G 302-308
Listen:
Grandi, "O
quam tu pulchra es"
[CD 4, #24 = NAWM 63]
Schütz,
"Saul, was verfolgst du mich"
[CD 4, #29 = NAWM 65]
M/Sept. 25
*Music in Italian Convents: Part 1
Read: Monson, "Disembodied Voices: Music in the Nunneries of Bologna
in the
Midst of the Counter-Reformation," in The Crannied Wall: Women,
Religion, and
the Arts in Early Modern Europe [PACKET]
W/Sept. 27
*Music in Italian Convents: Part 2
Read: Kendrick, "The Traditions of Milanese Convent Music and the
Sacred Dialogues of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani," in The Crannied
Wall [PACKET]
Listen:
Cozzolani,
"Confitebor tibi Domine"
[CD C8397s I Vespri Natalizi #6]
F/Sept. 29
Early Baroque Opera
Read: G 278-88
Listen: Monteverdi, Orfeo excerpts:
-
Prologue:
"Dal mio Permesso"
-
Act
II: "Vi ricorda"
-
Act
II: "Tu se' morta" & "Ahi caso acerbo"
[CD 3, #42 = NAWM 56; CD M76oJa L'Orfeo also on reserve]
M/Oct. 2
Roman and Venetian Opera
Read: G 288-293 & W & T #48: From the Letters of Monteverdi [PACKET]
Listen: Monteverdi,
Poppea
Act I,
Scene 3
[CD 4, #1 = NAWM 57]
W/Oct. 4
*Barbara Strozzi and the Cantata
Read: G 298-299 and Rosand, "The Voice of Barbara Strozzi" in
Women Making Music [PACKET]
Listen:
Strozzi,
"Begli occhi"
[CD St8121v La virtuosissima cantatrice #6 & PACKET]
Strozzi,
"Lagrime mie"
[CD 4, #12 = NAWM 60]
F/Oct. 6
Early Baroque Instrumental Music
Read: G 308-318
Listen:
Frescobaldi,
Toccata No. 3 (1637)
[CD 4, #35 = NAWM 68]
Marini, Sonata
quarta
[CD In118 In Stil Moderno #9 & PACKET]
M/Oct. 9
Group Presentations: Corelli
Corelli and the Trio Sonata
Read: G 372-78
Listen:
Corelli, Trio Sonata, Op. 3, No. 2
Movement
1
Movement
2
Movement
3
Movement
4
[CD 5, #22 = NAWM 77]
W/Oct. 11
Group Presentations: Vivaldi
Vivaldi, Musician at Venice
Read: G 390-96 and W & T #65: A Traveler's Impressions of Vivaldi
[RESERVE]
Listen:
Vivaldi, Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 3, No. 2
Movement
1
Movement
2
[CD 5, #27 = NAWM 78]
F/Oct. 13
Jean-Baptiste Lully and tragédie lyrique
Read: G 328 (bottom)-333
Listen: Lully, Armide excerpts
Ouverture
"Enfin il est
en ma puissance"
[CD 4, #39 = NAWM 70]
M/Oct. 23
Research Paper Title, Outline, and Bibliography Due
Late Seventeenth-Century Opera: Henry Purcell
Read: G 333-336
Listen: Purcell, Dido and Aeneas excerpts from Act III
Thy
hand, Belinda / When I am laid in earth
With drooping
wings
[CD 5, #1 = NAWM 71]
W/Oct. 25
Italian Opera in Transition
Read: G 327-28 and W & T #61: Castrato Singers [PACKET]
Listen: A. Scarlatti, La Griselda excerpt
"Mi rivedi"
[CD 4, #36 = NAWM 69]
F/Oct. 27
Handel in London, Part 1: Italian Opera
Read: G 423-30 & 456-57
Listen: Handel, Giulio Cesare
"Dall'ondoso
periglio"
[CD 6, #20 = NAWM 85]
Handel, Scipione
"Scoglio
d'immota fronte"
[CD H11scR Scipione & PACKET]
M/Oct. 30
*Handel in London, Part 2: The Oratorio
Read: G 430-435 & David Hunter, "Patronizing Handel, inventing
audiences: the intersections of class, money, music and history"
in Early Music 28/1 (Feb., 2000) [RESERVE]
Listen: Handel, Jephtha excerpt
"How
dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!"
[CD 6, #26 = NAWM 86]
W/Nov. 1
Late Baroque Opera: Jean-Philippe Rameau
Read: G 396-403
Listen: Rameau, Hippolyte et Aricie excerpt
"Ah!
faut-il"
[CD 5, #36 = NAWM 80]
F/Nov. 3
J.S. Bach: His Career and Instrumental Music
Read: G 403-414 and W & T #70 [PACKET]
Listen:
Bach,
Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543
[CD 5, #37 = NAWM #81]
Bach, Brandenburg
Concerto No. 2
[CD B12br Bach, Brandenburg Concertos]
M/Nov. 6
Listening quiz 2
J.S. Bach: Vocal Music
Read: G 414-423
Listen: Bach, Cantata, Wachet auf, ruft uns die, BWV 140
"Wachet
auf" (opening chorus)
"Er
kommt" (recitative)
"Wenn
kömmst" (aria: duet)
"Zion
hört" (tenor, chorale)
"So
geh herein zu mir" (recitative)
"Mein
Freund ist mein" (aria: duet)
"Gloria
sei dir gesungen" (chorale)
[CD 6, #1 = NAWM #83]
W/Nov. 8
Introduction to Music of the Classic Period
Read: G 439-49
F/Nov. 10
*Early Italian Comic Opera: Gender Ambiguity
Read: G 451-53 & Nina Treadwell, "Female operatic cross-dressing:
Bernardo Saddumene's libretto for Leonardo Vinci's Li zite 'n galera
(1722)" in Cambridge Opera Journal 10/2 (1998) [PACKET]
Listen: Vinci, Li zite
"So
sciore"
"T'aggio
mmideja"
[CD V741z Li zite 'n galera (cd 1), #5 & #13]
M/Nov. 13
The Intermezzo: Pergolesi's La serva padrona
Read: G 452-455
Listen: Pergolesi, La serva padrona
"Sempre
in contrasti"
[CD P41sN Pergolesi, La serva padrona]
W/Nov. 15
The Early Symphony: G.B. Sammartini
Read: G 471-72
Listen: Symphony for Strings in D major (JC 15)
Movement
1
Movement
2
Movement
3
[LP Sa41sy Five Symphonies]
F/Nov. 17
Music at the Court of Mannheim
Read: G 475-76 and Eugene Wolf, "The Mannheim Court" in The
Classical Era, ed. Neal Zaslaw [RESERVE]
Listen: Stamitz, Symphony in D Major (La melodica germanica/ Op.
11, no. 1)
Movement
1
Movement
2
Movement
3
Movement
4
[LP St2wi Stamitz, Instrumental music. Selections.]
M/Nov. 20
Research Paper Due
Opera Seria and "Reform" Opera
Read: G 454-60 and 463-66
Listen: Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice, Act 1, Scenes 1 & 2
1: Chorus
with Orfeo
2:
Instrumental
3: Chorus
4:
Aria
[CD G52oB Orfeo ed Euridice]
W/Nov. 22
Haydn at Eszterháza
Read: G 484-87 & 490-91and W & T #81: Haydn's Duties in the Service
of Prince Esterházy
Listen: Haydn, Symphony in F Minor (no. 35a or 49, La Passione)
2nd movement
[CD H32sy48 Haydn, Symphonies]
M/Nov. 27
Listening quiz 3
Haydn at London
Read: G 487-89 & 493-95
Listen: Symphony No. 99 in E-flat Major
Movement 1
Movement 2
Movement 3
Movement 4
[LP H32sy99 Haydn, Symphony No. 99]
W/Nov. 29
Haydn and the String Quartet
Read: G 496-502
Listen: String Quartet in F major (op. 77 ii)
Movement 1
Movement 2
Movement 3
Movement 4
F/Dec. 1
Mozart: Early Works and the Salzburg Years
Read: G 508-11 & 514
Listen: Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat, K 271
Movement
1
Movement
2
Movement
3
[CD M87cpH Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 9]
M/Dec. 4
Mozart and Opera
Read: G 525-28
Listen: Don Giovanni
"Madamina,
il catalogo"
"Ah!
Taci, ingiusto core"
[CD M87dN Don Giovanni]
Listen: Die Zauberflöte
"Der
Vogelfänger bin ich ja"
"O
Isis und Osiris"
[CD Mozart, Die Zauberflöte]
W/Dec. 6
Class presentations of research assignment
F/Dec. 8
Class presentations of research assignment
|