Music of the Baroque: An Anthology of Scores

by Schulenberg, David

• ISBN13: 9780195122336
• ISBN10: 019512233X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Designed as a companion volume to David Schulenberg's Music of the Baroque textbook, Music of the Baroque: An Anthology of Scores includes works by such celebrated Baroque composers as Bach, Handel, Monteverdi, Lully, and Schutz. It also features compositions by lesser-known composers,including Barbara Strozzi and Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre. Many newly edited scores in this anthology complement the textbook's emphasis on performance practice. Offering an unparalleled portrait of European music from 1600 through 1750, the collection is an ideal instructional package forcourses in the history of Baroque music. Music of the Baroque: An Anthology of Scores includes music by: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Johann Sebastian Bach Hans Ignaz Franz Biber Dietrich Buxtehude Giulio Caccini Giacomo Carissimi Pier Francesco Cavalli Marc-Antoine Charpentier Arcangelo Corelli Francois Couperin Jean-Henri D'Anglebert Girolamo Frescobaldi Johann Jacob Froberger Giovanni Gabrieli Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa George Frideric Handel Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre Orlando di Lassus Jean-Baptiste Lully Biagio Marini Claudio Monteverdi Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Henry Purcell Jean-Philippe Rameau Alessandro Scarlatti Domenico Scarlatti Heinrich Schutz Barbara Strozzi Georg Philipp Telemann Antonio Vivaldi

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Dum complerentur (motet)	1	(7)
Rolande de Lassus: Timor et tremor (motet)	8	(8)
Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa: Belta, poi che t'assenti (madrigal)	16	(4)
Luci serene (madrigal)	20	(5)
Claudio Monteverdi
Sfogava con le stelle (continuo madrigal)	25	(3)
Giulio Caccini
Orfeo, Act 2 (opera: selections)	28	(16)
Claudio Monteverdi
Sinfonia and two arias: ``Ecco pur ch'a voi ritorno'' and ``Mira ch'a se n'alletta''	28	(3)
``Mira, deh mira Orfeo'' through chorus, ``Ahi, caso acerbo''	31	(13)
Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (balletto or ``dramatic madrigal'')	44	(20)
Claudio Monteverdi
Giasone (opera: selections)	64	(17)
Pier Francesco Cavalli
Act 1, scene 14 (``Dell'antro magico'')	64	(7)
Act 3, scene 21 (``Infelice ch'ascolto?'')	71	(10)
Armide (opera: selections)	81	(7)
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Overture	81	(3)
Act 2, scene 5 (recitative ``Enfin, il est en ma puissance'' and air ``Venez, secondez mes desirs'')	84	(4)
Ardo in tacito foco (cantata or strophic aria)	88	(10)
Barbara Strozzi
Correa nel seno amato (cantata: selections)	98	(9)
Alessandro Scarlatti
Aria ``Fresche brine''	98	(3)
Aria ``Onde belle''	101	(6)
From Rosy Bowers (song or cantata)	107	(6)
Henry Purcell
In ecclesiis (concertato motet)	113	(19)
Giovanni Gabrieli
Herr, neige deine Himmel, SWV 361 (concertato motet)	132	(8)
Heinrich Schutz
Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich?, SWV 415 (concertato motet)	140	(6)
Heinrich Schutz
Jephte (oratorio: selections)	146	(12)
Giacomo Carissimi
Frigidae noctis umbra, H. 414 (oratorio: selections)	158	(6)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Orlando (opera: selections)	164	(13)
George Frideric Handel
Act 1, scene 8 (recitative and aria ``O care parolette'')	164	(3)
Act 1, scene 9 (recitative and aria ``Se fedel vuoi'')	167	(3)
Act 1, scene 10 (recitative and aria ``Fammi combattere'')	170	(7)
Les indes galantes (opera-ballet: selections)	177	(9)
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Herr Jesu Christ, wahr'r Mensch und Gott, BWV 127 (sacred cantata)	186	(22)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Jephtha (English oratorio: selections)	208	(20)
George Frideric Handel
From Part 2, scene 3 (recitative and aria ``Open thy marble jaws'')	208	(4)
From Part 2, scene 4 (chorus ``How dark, O Lord'')	212	(16)
Toccata IX (from Libro 1)	228	(3)
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Suite X in A minor	231	(5)
Johann Jacob Froberger
Prelude from Suite III in A minor	236	(4)
Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre
Nun bitten wir den heligen Geist, Bux WV 208 (chorale prelude)	240	(3)
Dietrich Buxtehude
Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist, BWV 385 (fourpart chorale setting)	243	(2)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Praeludium in A minor, Bux WV 153	245	(7)
Dietrich Buxtehude
Prelude and Fugue in G from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Part 1	252	(6)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Extracts from ornament tables	258	(5)
Jean-Henri D'Anglebert
Francois Couperin
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Vingt-unieme order (keyboard suite: selections)	263	(6)
Francois Couperin
La reine des coeurs	263	(2)
La Couperin	265	(4)
Suite in G from Nouvelles suites de clavecin (selections)	269	(3)
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Les sauvages	269	(1)
L'Egiptienne	270	(2)
Two Sonatas in A, K. 181--82	272	(9)
Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata for violin and continuo, La variata	281	(8)
Biagio Marini
``Mystery'' Sonata no. 9 in A minor for scordatura violin and continuo	289	(7)
Hans Ignaz Franz Biber
Sonata in D for two violins and continuo, op. 2, no. 1	296	(4)
Arcangelo Corelli
Sonata in C for violin and continuo, op. 5, no. 3	300	(11)
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso in G minor, op. 6, no. 8, ``Christmas''	311	(12)
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto in E for violin, strings, and continuo, op. 3, no. 12 (R. 265)	323	(9)
Antonio Vivaldi
Brandenburg Concerto no. 2 in F, BWV 1047	332	(19)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Nouveau quatuor no. 6 in E minor for flute, violin, viola da gamba (or cello), and continuo, TWV 43: e4	351	(9)
Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto in D minor for harpsichord and strings, W. 23 (H. 427) (first movement)	360
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach