Music in Western Civilization, Volume B The Baroque and Classical Eras

by Wright, Craig; Simms, Bryan R.

• ISBN13: 9780495008682
• ISBN10: 0495008680
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-01
• Publisher: Schirmer

Summary

Understand music in context with MUSIC IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION, VOLUME B: THE BAROQUE AND CLASSICAL ERAS! Clear and easy-to-understand, this music text provides you with the tools you need to succeed in this course. With a focus on the history of music in the wider context of Western civilization, you will see how study of music history is important to the practice and performance of music today. Numerous full-color photographs, maps, and timelines give you a sense of the place of music within the arts and humanities in the West. Class preparation is made easy with the book-specific website that contains features such as additional musical selections, a music glossary, unit resources, and more.

Table of Contents

Preface	xviii
Part IV BAROQUE MUSIC
Early Baroque Music	234	(6)
Characteristics of Early Baroque Music	236	(3)
Summary	239	(1)
Key Terms	240	(1)
The Birth of Opera: Florence, Mantua, and Venice	240	(11)
Early Opera in Florence	240	(4)
Listening Cue Jacopo Peri, Euridice, ``Funeste piagge''	243	(1)
Listening Cue Giulio Caccini, Le nuove musiche, Filli, mirando il cielo	244	(1)
Early Opera in Mantua: Monteverdi's Orfeo	244	(4)
Listening Cue Claudio Monteverdi, Orfeo, Toccata	244	(3)
Listening Cue Claudio Monteverdi, Orfeo	247	(1)
Recitative, ``A l'amara novella''	247	(1)
Arioso, ``Tu se' morta, mia vita''	247	(1)
Aria, ``Possente spirto''	247	(1)
Early Opera in Venice	248	(2)
Listening Cue Claudio Monteverdi, L'incoronazione di Poppea, Duet, ``Pur ti miro''	249	(1)
Did Monteverdi Write the Finale? Does It Matter?	250	(1)
Summary	250	(1)
Key Terms	251	(1)
The Concerted Style in Venice and Dresden	251	(11)
Giovanni Gabrieli and the Concerted Motet	254	(1)
Listening Cue Giovanni Gabrieli, In ecclesus	254	(1)
Claudio Monteverdi and the Concerted Madrigal	254	(2)
Listening Cue Claudio Monteverdi, Hor che 'l ciel e la terra	256	(1)
Barbara Strozzi and the Early Baroque Cantata	256	(2)
Listening Cue Barbara Strozzi, L'Amante Segreto: Voglio Morire	258	(1)
The Concerted Style Moves North: Heinrich Schutz in Dresden	258	(3)
Listening Cue Heinrich Schutz, Symphoniae sacrae; Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich?	261	(1)
Summary	261	(1)
Key Terms	261	(1)
Religious Music in Baroque Rome	262	(12)
The Cappella Pontificia Sistina and the Stile Antico	263	(2)
Mozart Pirates Allegri's Miserere	265	(1)
Listening Cue Gregorio Allegri, Miserere mei, Deus	265	(1)
St. Peter's Basilica and the Colossal Baroque	265	(2)
Listening Cue Unknown, Kyrie of the Missa Salisburgensis	267	(1)
Organ Music by Girolamo Frescobaldi	267	(2)
Listening Cue Girolamo Frescobaldi, Fiori musicali, Mass for Sundays	269	(1)
Toccata	269	(1)
Kyrie	269	(1)
Ricercar	269	(1)
Sacred Opera and Oratorio: Giacomo Carissimi's Jephte	269	(3)
Listening Cue Giacomo Carissimi, Jephte	271	(1)
``Plorate, colles'' (solo)	271	(1)
``Plorate, filii Israel'' (chorus)	271	(1)
The Chamber Cantata: A Christmas Cantata by Alessandro Scarlatti	272	(1)
Listening Cue Alessandro Scarlatti, Cantata Oh di Betlemme	273	(1)
Recitative, ``Oh di Betlemme''	273	(1)
Aria, ``Dal bel seno d'una stella''	273	(1)
Summary	273	(1)
Key Terms	274	(1)
Instrumental Music in Italy	274	(14)
The Violin Family	274	(1)
Formation of the Baroque Orchestra	275	(2)
The Violin Then and Now	276	(1)
Church and Chamber Music	277	(1)
Salomone Rossi and the Early Baroque Sonata	277	(2)
Listening Cue Salomone Rossi, Sonata sopra l'aria di Ruggiero	279	(1)
Arcangelo Corelli: Solo Sonata and Trio Sonata	279	(3)
Listening Cue Arcangelo Corelli, Opus 4, No. 1	282	(1)
Preludio	282	(1)
Corrente	282	(1)
Adagio	282	(1)
Allemanda	282	(1)
Trumpet Music by Giuseppe Torelli: The Beginnings of the Solo Concerto	282	(2)
Listening Cue Giuseppe Torelli, Trumpet Sinfonia in D Major	284	(1)
Antonio Vivaldi: Solo Concerto and Concerto Grosso	284	(3)
Listening Cue Antonio Vivaldi, Opus 3, L'estro armonico, Concerto Grosso, No. 8, 1st movement	287	(1)
Summary	287	(1)
Key Terms	288	(1)
Instrumental Music in Germany and Austria	288	(13)
Johann Froberger and the Baroque Dance Suite	289	(2)
Listening Cue Johann Froberger, Suite No. 6 in C Major	291	(1)
Lamento (Allemande)	291	(1)
Courante	291	(1)
Sarabande	291	(1)
Gigue	291	(1)
Biber and Kuhnau: The Programmatic Sonata	291	(5)
Listening Cue Heinrich Biber, ``Mystery'' Sonatas, The Resurrection	293	(2)
The Doctrine of Affections	295	(1)
Dieterich Buxtehude and the North German Organ Tradition	296	(3)
Listening Cue Dieterich Buxtehude, Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern	298	(1)
Johann Pachelbel and the South German Tradition	299	(1)
Listening Cue Johann Pachelbel, Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern	299	(1)
Listening Cue Johann Pachelbel, Canon in D Major	300	(1)
Summary	300	(1)
Key Terms	301	(1)
Music in Paris and at the Court of Versailles: Vocal Music	301	(9)
Ballet de cour	302	(1)
Jean-Baptiste Lully and Tragedie lyrique	303	(4)
Lully Kills Himself Conducting	306	(1)
Listening Cue Jean-Baptiste Lully, Armide	306	(1)
Overture	306	(1)
``Enfin il est en ma puissance''	306	(1)
Religious Music	307	(1)
Elizabeth Jacquet de La Guerre and the Cantate Francaise	307	(2)
Listening Cue Elizabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Jephte	309	(1)
Aria, ``Jephte revient''	309	(1)
Recitative, ``La Fille de Jephte''	309	(1)
Summary	309	(1)
Key Terms	310	(1)
Music in Paris and at the Court of Versailles: Instrumental Music	310	(12)
The Gaultiers: French Lute Music	310	(3)
Listening Cue Denis Gaultier, La Rhetorique des dieux, Tombeau de Madamoiselle Gaultier	313	(1)
The Couperins: French Harpsichord Music	313	(5)
The Eighteenth-Century French Harpsichord	317	(1)
Listening Cue Francois Couperin, Pieces de clavecin . . . premier livre, La Favorite	317	(1)
Listening Cue Francois Couperin, Pieces de clavecin . . . quatrieme livre, L'Arlequine	318	(1)
Summary	318	(1)
Key Terms	319	(1)
Musical Interlude 5 From Ancient to Modern: Aspects of Baroque Music Theory	319	(3)
Music in London: Henry Purcell	322	(8)
Henry Purcell and Theater Music	323	(3)
Listening Cue Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas	326	(1)
Recitative, ``Thy hand, Belinda''	326	(1)
Aria, ``When I am laid in earth''	326	(1)
Purcell's Odes and Funeral Music for Queen Mary	326	(3)
Art Music Displaced by Folk Music	327	(1)
Listening Cue Henry Purcell, Come, ye sons of art	328	(1)
Chorus, ``Come, ye sons of art''	328	(1)
Duet, ``Sound the trumpet''	328	(1)
Chorus, ``Come, ye sons of art''	328	(1)
Listening Cue Henry Purcell, Funeral Music for Queen Mary, March and Canzona	329	(1)
Summary	329	(1)
Key Terms	330	(1)
Music in London: George Frideric Handel	330	(10)
Handel and the Dance Suite	331	(2)
Listening Cue George Frideric Handel, Water Music, Suite No. 1	333	(1)
Minuet and Trio	333	(1)
Hornpipe	333	(1)
Handel and Opera	333	(3)
The Castrato in Handel's Operas	334	(1)
Listening Cue George Frideric Handel, Giulio Cesare, Aria, ``V'adoro, pupille''	335	(1)
Opera Then and Now	336	(1)
Handel and Oratorio	336	(4)
Listening Cue George Frideric Handel, Messiah	338	(1)
Aria, ``He shall feed his flock''	338	(1)
Listening Cue George Frideric Handel, Messiah	339	(1)
``Hallelujah'' chorus	339	(1)
Summary	340	(1)
Key Terms	340	(1)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Instrumental Music in Weimar and Cothen	340	(12)
Bach in Weimar: The Organ Music	342	(4)
The Organ in Bach's Day	343	(2)
Listening Cue Johann Sebastian Bach, Orgelbuchlein, ``In dulci Jubilo''	345	(1)
Listening Cue Johann Sebastian Bach, Orgelbuchlein, ``Durch Adams Fall ist ganz Verderbt''	345	(1)
Bach in Cothen: Chamber and Orchestral Music	346	(6)
Listening Cue Johann Sebastian Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Prelude and Fugue in C Minor	348	(1)
Pitch and Tuning in Bach's Day	349	(3)
Listening Cue Johann Sebastian Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, 1st movement	352	(1)
Summary	352	(1)
Key Terms	352	(1)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Vocal Music in Leipzig	352	(14)
The Lutheran Chorale Cantata	353	(5)
Bach's Choir and Orchestra: Where Were the Ladies?	355	(1)
Listening Cue Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, Movement 1	356	(1)
Movements 2, 3, 4	357	(1)
Movements 5, 6, 7	358	(1)
Bach's Four-Part Chorale Harmonizations and Teaching Music Theory Today	358	(1)
Bach's Later Musical Projects	358	(4)
Listening Cue Johann Sebastian Bach, B-Minor Mass, Credo	361	(1)
``Crucifixus''	361	(1)
``Et resurrexit''	362	(1)
Summary	362	(1)
Key Terms	363	(3)
Part V THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE CLASSICAL ERA
Music in the Age of Enlightenment: Opera	366	(12)
Music of the Establishment: Enlightenment Opera Seria	367	(3)
Listening Cue Johann Adolf Hasse, Cleofide, Aria, ``Digli ch'io son fedele''	369	(1)
Music and Social Change: Comic Opera	370	(4)
Listening Cue John Gay, The Beggar's Opera, Dialogue and Songs from Act I	371	(1)
Listening Cue Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, La serva padrona, Duet, ``Lo conosco and quegl' occhetti''	372	(2)
Listening Cue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Le Devin du village, Duet, ``A jamais Colin''	374	(1)
The Reform Operas of Gluck	374	(3)
Listening Cue Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice	376	(1)
Aria, ``Deh placatevi''	376	(1)
Chorus, ``Misero giovane''	376	(1)
Obbligato recitative, ``Ahime! Dove trascorsi?''	376	(1)
Aria, ``Che faro senza Euridice''	376	(1)
Summary	377	(1)
Key Terms	377	(1)
Music in the Age of Enlightenment: Orchestral Music	378	(7)
Public Concerts	378	(1)
The Early Symphony: Giovanni Battista Sammartini in Milan	379	(3)
Playing in an Eighteenth-Century Orchestra	381	(1)
Listening Cue Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Symphony No. 3 in D Major, 1st movement	381	(1)
The Rise of Orchestral Discipline: Johann Stamitz in Mannheim	382	(2)
Listening Cue Johann Stamitz, La Melodia Germanica, Symphony in E Major, 1st movement	383	(1)
How Fast Is Allegro?	384	(1)
Summary	384	(1)
Key Terms	385	(1)
Music in the Age of Enlightenment: Keyboard Music	385	(11)
Domestic Keyboard Music for Women	385	(2)
The Advent of the Piano	387	(1)
Domenico Scarlatti in Madrid	387	(2)
Listening Cue Domenico Scarlatti, Essercizi, Sonata No. 26 in A Major	389	(1)
The Clavichord in Berlin: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach	389	(3)
The Clavichord	391	(1)
Listening Cue C. P. E. Bach, Fantasia in C Minor for Clavichord	392	(1)
The Piano in London: Johann Christian Bach	392	(3)
The Piano Comes to England	394	(1)
Listening Cue J. C. Bach, Piano Sonata in D Major, Opus 5, No. 2, 1st movement	395	(1)
Summary	395	(1)
Key Terms	395	(1)
Classical Music in Vienna	396	(9)
Classical Style	396	(1)
Classical Forms	397	(3)
Should I Repeat?	399	(1)
Classical Genres	400	(3)
The Classical Orchestra	403	(1)
Classical Composers	404	(1)
Summary	405	(1)
Key Terms	405	(1)
Joseph Haydn: Instrumental Music	405	(10)
The Life of Joseph Haydn (1732--1809)	406	(1)
Haydn's Early and Middle Symphonies	407	(3)
Listening Cue Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 6 in D Major, Le Matin, 1st movement	409	(1)
Haydn Goes Hunting	410	(1)
Haydn's String Quartets	410	(3)
Listening Cue Joseph Haydn, Opus 33, No. 3, The ``Brid'' Quartet, 1st movement	412	(1)
Haydn's Sonatas and Concertos	413	(2)
Summary	415	(1)
Key Terms	415	(1)
Joseph Haydn: Late Symphonies and Vocal Music	415	(7)
The Paris Symphonies	416	(1)
The London Symphonies	417	(2)
Listening Cue Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 94, The ``Surprise,'' 2nd movement	418	(1)
Listening Cue Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 99 in E Major, 1st movement	418	(1)
Haydn Wins Over His Orchestra	419	(1)
The Late Vocal Music	419	(2)
Listening Cue Joseph Haydn, The Creation, ``The Heavens Are Telling''	421	(1)
Summary	421	(1)
Key Terms	421	(1)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Instrumental Music	422	(12)
The Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756--1791)	422	(1)
Symphonies	423	(5)
Listening Cue Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, 1st movement	427	(1)
Listening Cue Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 41 in C Major, The ``Jupiter,'' 4th movement	428	(1)
Chamber Music	428	(1)
Piano and Violin Sonatas	429	(3)
Pianoforte or Fortepiano?	431	(1)
Concertos	432	(1)
Listening Cue Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto in A Major, 1st movement	433	(1)
Summary	433	(1)
Key Terms	434	(1)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Vocal Music	434	(9)
Lorenzo da Ponte: Librettist to Mozart	435	(1)
Listening Cue Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro	436	(1)
Aria, ``Se vuol ballare''	436	(1)
Aria, ``Porgi, amor''	436	(2)
Aria, ``Voi, che sapete''	438	(1)
Ensemble, ``Vostre dunque''	439	(1)
Requiem Mass	439	(3)
Listening Cue Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Requiem Mass	441	(1)
``Confutatis''	441	(1)
``Lacrimosa''	442	(1)
Summary	442	(1)
Key Terms	443	(1)
The Early Music of Beethoven	443	(11)
Years of Apprenticeship: 1770--1792	444	(1)
Beethoven's World in 1792	445	(1)
Vienna: 1792--1802	446	(1)
Piano Music and the ``Pathetique'' Sonata	447	(2)
Listening Cue Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata in C Minor (``Pathetique''), 1st movement	448	(1)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major	449	(3)
Carl Czerny Meets Beethoven	450	(2)
Listening Cue Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, 3rd movement	452	(1)
The Onset of Deafness	452	(1)
Summary	453	(1)
Key Terms	453	(1)
Beethoven's Middle Period: 1802--1814	454	(10)
Beethoven's Life and Music During the Middle Period	454	(1)
The Heiligenstadt Testament	455	(1)
Beethoven's Symphonies: New Paths	455	(4)
Listening Cue Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 (``Eroica''), 2nd movement (Funeral March)	459	(1)
The Opera Fidelio	459	(3)
Synopsis of Fidelio	460	(2)
Affairs of the Heart: The Immortal Beloved	462	(2)
Beethoven's Letter to the Immortal Beloved	463	(1)
Summary	464	(1)
Key Terms	464	(1)
After the Congress of Vienna: Beethoven's Late Music	464	(9)
Music at the Congress of Vienna	465	(1)
Beethoven's Life and Works in His Late Period	465	(5)
Listening Cue Ludwig, van Beethoven, String Quartet in B Major, Op. 130 5th movement (Cavatina)	468	(1)
Listening Cue Ludwig van Beethoven, Missa Solemnis, Kyrie	469	(1)
Beethoven's Death and Funeral	470	(1)
Summary	470	(1)
Key Terms	471	(2)
Notes	473	(2)
Bibliography	475	(2)
Credits	477	(2)
Glossary	479	(16)
Index	495