Norton Anthology of Western Music, Vol 1 Ancient to Baroque

by Palisca, Claude V.

• ISBN13: 9780393976908
• ISBN10: 0393976904
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

This comprehensive collection of 150 scores illustrates every significant trend and genre of Western classical music from antiquity to modern times. The Fourth Edition contains 20 pieces new to the collection and an increased number of twentieth-century works (American composers newly represented include Amy Cheney Beach, John Adams, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich). Each numbered selection is either a complete work in itself or an entire movement from a longer original, and each is accompanied by a commentary. All foreign-language texts are accompanied by English translations Book jacket.

Author Biography

Claude V. Palisca, a past president of the American Musicological Society, is professor of music at Yale University. Among his many published books and scholarly editions of music are Baroque Music and Studies in the History of Italian Music

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Recordings	p. xvi
Musical Life and Thought in Ancient Greece and Rome
Epitaph of Seikilos	p. 1
Euripides Orestes: Stasimon chorus	p. 4
Chant and Secular Song in the Middle Ages
Mass for Christmas Day	p. 7
Introit: Puer natus est nobis	p. 8
Kyrie	p. 9
Gloria	p. 10
Gradual: Viderunt omnes	p. 12
Alleluia	p. 13
Credo	p. 14
Offertory: Tui sunt caeli	p. 17
Sanctus	p. 18
Agnus Dei	p. 19
Communion: Viderunt omnes	p. 20
Ite, missa est	p. 20
Office of Second Vespers, Nativity of Our Lord	p. 21
Verse: Deus in adjutorium	p. 21
Antiphon: Tecum principium	p. 22
Psalm 109: Dixit Dominus	p. 22
Antiphon: Redemptionem misit Dominus	p. 23
Psalm 110: Confitebor tibi Domine	p. 24
Antiphon: Exortum est in tenebris	p. 26
Psalm 111: Beatus vir qui timet Dominum	p. 26
Antiphon: Apud Dominum	p. 27
Psalm 129: De profundis clamavi ad te	p. 27
Short Responsory: Verbum caro	p. 28
Hymn: Christe Redemptor omnium	p. 29
Verse: Notum fecit	p. 30
Antiphon: Hodie Christus natus est	p. 31
Canticle: Magnificat	p. 32
Sequence for the Solemn Mass of Easter Day: Victimae paschali laudes	p. 33
Ordo virtutum: In principio omnes	p. 35
Trope: Quem quaeritis in praesepe	p. 38
Jeu de Robin et de Marion: Rondeau: Robins m'aime	p. 40
Can vei la lauzeta mover	p. 41
Canso: A chantar	p. 43
Nachdem David war redlich und aufrichtig	p. 45
Istampita Palamento	p. 47
The Beginnings of Polyphony and the Music of the Thirteenth Century
Organum: Alleluia Justus ut palma	p. 50
Aquitanian polyphony: Jubilemus, exultemus	p. 51
Alleluia Pascha nostrum: Gregorian Chant and Early Polyphonic Elaborations
Plainchant	p. 54
Leonin, Organum duplum	p. 54
Clausula	p. 55
Motet: Gaudeat devotio fidelium	p. 55
Substitute clausula	p. 57
Motet: Ave Maria, Fons letitie	p. 57
Motet: Salve, salus hominum/O radians stella/nostrum	p. 61
Organum quadruplum: Sederunt	p. 65
Conductus: Ave virgo virginum	p. 72
Motet: Amours mi font/En mai/Flos Filius eius	p. 74
French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century
Motet: In arboris/Tuba sacre fidei/Virgo sum	p. 77
Rondeau: Rose, liz, printemps, verdure	p. 83
Mass: Agnus Dei	p. 86
Madrigal: Fenice fu	p. 92
Ballata: Non avra ma' pieta	p. 94
Rondeau: Belle, bonne, sage	p. 97
England and the Burgundian Lands in the Fifteenth Century
Motet: Quam pulchra es	p. 100
Carol: Salve, sancta parens	p. 103
Ballade: Resvellies vous et faites chiere lye	p. 105
Hymn: Conditor alme siderum	p. 108
Se la face ay pale	p. 110
Ballade	p. 110
Missa Se la face ay pale: gloria	p. 111
The Age of the Renaissance: Music of the Low Countries
Rondeau: De plus en plus	p. 121
Missa De plus en plus	p. 124
Kyrie	p. 124
Agnus Dei	p. 127
Missa Pange lingua	p. 133
Kyrie	p. 133
From Credo: Et incarnatus est and Cruxifixus	p. 137
Motet: De profundis clamavi ad te	p. 142
Lied: Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen	p. 149
New Currents in the Sixteenth Century
Frottola: Io non compro piu speranza	p. 152
Madrigal: Il bianco e dolce cigno	p. 155
Madrigal: Aspro core e selvaggio	p. 158
Madrigal: Da le belle contrade d'oriente	p. 166
Madrigal: Solo e pensoso	p. 171
Madrigal: "Io parto" e non piu dissi	p. 184
Chanson: Tant que vivray	p. 190
Chanson: Revecy venir du printans	p. 193
Madrigal: O Care, thou wilt despatch me	p. 209
Air: Flow, my tears	p. 218
Danseries a 4 Parties, Second Livre	p. 221
Basse danse (No. 1)	p. 221
Branle gay: Que je chatoulle ta fossette (No. 36)	p. 222
Pavana Lachrymae	p. 225
Church Music of the Late Renaissance and Reformation
Pope Marcellus Mass	p. 230
Credo	p. 230
Agnus Dei I	p. 240
O magnum mysterium	p. 245
Motet:	p. 245
Mass: Kyrie	p. 249
Motet: Tristis est anima mea	p. 251
Full Anthem: Sing joyfully unto God	p. 257
Music of the Early Baroque Period
Madrigal: Vedro'l mio sol	p. 267
Le musiche sopra l'Euridice	p. 273
Prologue: Io, che d'alti sospir	p. 273
Nel pur ardor	p. 274
Per quel vago boschetto	p. 276
Madrigal: Cruda Amarilli	p. 283
L'Orfeo	p. 289
Prologue: Dal mio Permesso	p. 289
Act II: Vi ricorda (excerpt)	p. 295
In un fiorito prato	p. 297
L'incoronazione di Poppea: Act I, Scene 3	p. 306
Orontea: Act II, Scene 17: Intorno all'idol mio	p. 315
Cantata: Lagrime mie	p. 321
Grand Concerto: In ecclesiis	p. 330
Sacred Concerto: O Domine, Jesu Christe	p. 356
Motet: O quam tu pulchra es	p. 359
Historia di Jephte	p. 363
Plorate colles	p. 363
Plorate filii Israel	p. 369
Grand Concerto: Saul, was verfolgst du mich, SWV 415	p. 376
Gigue: La Poste	p. 388
Lute Version	p. 388
Arrangement for harpsichord by Jean-Henri D'Anglebert	p. 389
Lamentation faite sur la mort tres douloureuse de Sa Majeste Imperiale Ferdinand le troisieme et se joue lentement avec discretion	p. 390
Toccata No. 3 (1615, revised 1637)	p. 393
Opera and Vocal Music in the Late Seventeenth Century
La Griselda: Act II, Scene 1: Mi rivedi	p. 395
Le bourgeois gentilhomme: Ballet des nations	p. 399
Entree	p. 399
Chaconne	p. 400
Armide	p. 403
Ouverture	p. 403
Act II, Scene 5: Enfin il est en ma puissance	p. 405
Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene 2: Thy hand, Belinda/When I am laid in earth	p. 413
Chorus: With drooping wings	p. 416
The Fairy Queen: Hark! the ech'ing air a triumph sings	p. 421
Instrumental Music in the Late Baroque Period
Praeludium in E Major, BuxWV 141	p. 424
Chorale Prelude: Danket dem Herrn, BuxWV 181	p. 428
Vingt-cinquieme ordre	p. 430
La Visionaire	p. 430
La Misterieuse	p. 432
La Monflambert	p. 434
La Muse victorieuse	p. 435
Les Ombres errantes	p. 437
Trio Sonata: La Raspona	p. 440
Trio Sonata, Op. 3, No. 2	p. 446
Music in the Early Eighteenth Century
Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Op. 3, No. 2, RV 578	p. 453
Adagio e spiccato (first movement)	p. 453
Allegro (second movement)	p. 456
Concerto for Violin, Op. 9, No. 2, RV 345: Largo (second movement)	p. 487
Hippolyte et Aricie: Act IV, Scene 1: Ah! faut-il	p. 490
Praeludium et Fuga in A Minor, BWV 543	p. 495
Durch Adams Fall, BWV 637	p. 502
Chorale melody	p. 502
Organ chorale	p. 502
Cantata, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140	p. 504
Chorus: Wachet auf	p. 504
Recitative: Er kommt	p. 525
Aria (Duet): Wann kommst du, mein Heil?	p. 526
Chorale: Zion hort die Wachter singen	p. 534
Recitative: So geh herein zu mir	p. 538
Aria (Duet): Mein Freund ist mein!	p. 539
Chorale: Gloria sei dir gesungen	p. 544
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Credo: Symbolum Nicenum	p. 549
Et in Spiritum sanctum Dominum	p. 549
Confiteor	p. 554
Et expecto resurrectionem	p. 560
Giulio Cesare: Act II, Scene 2: V'adoro pupille	p. 576
Saul: Act II, Scene 10	p. 585
Accompagnato: The Time at length is come	p. 585
Recitative: Where is the Son of Jesse?	p. 586
Chorus: O fatal Consequence of Rage	p. 588
Appendixes and Indexes
Instrument Names and Abbreviations	p. 615
Glossary of Score and Performance Indications	p. 617
Index of Composers	p. 622
Index of Titles	p. 623
Index of Forms and Genres	p. 625
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