Dr. Marianne R. Pfau                                                                            Fall 2009

Camino 173B, x4101, mpfau@sandiego.edu

T/Th 1:15-2:30, W 1:30-4:00pm

or by appointment

 

Mus 331 

 

Music History II:

1600-1830 (Monteverdi-Beethoven)

T/Th 9:15-10:35

Camino 153

F09

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

 

A historical survey of music from the Baroque through the Viennese Classical Era, presented in a cultural context.   We will study composers of Western music and learn how to distinguish their works according to changing style characteristics, shifting esthetic and philosophical perspectives, and changing historical circumstances.  Historical study, informed listening and criticism, writing based on library research, analytical writing are central aspects of the course. Music 130 or equivalent are suggested as preparation for this course.

 

MATERIALS

 

Text:    Craig Wright and Brian Simms.  Music in Western Civilization, Vol. II, Schirmer 2005.

 

Notated Listening Examples/Translations: Anthology,  Vol. II

Listening Selections: CD set, vol. II.

Review CD (choose one)       

♫ Telemann: Der getreue Music-Meister, Hamburg: virtilia 2007 (       (www.toutes-suites.com, also on CD-Baby and i-tunes); or

♫ J.M. Muller: 12 Sonates pour un Hautbois de concert…, Leipzig: genuin 2008 (www.genuin.de). 

♫ Sebastian Bodinus. 6 Trios for Two Hautbois and BC, Leipzig: genuin 2009 (www.genuin.de)

 

All CDs available at the USD bookstore

 

REQUIREMENTS

 

As a study routine for this course, it is best to do the assigned readings/listenings once before each class so that you can participate actively in discussions, and to do your in-depth reviewing of the same material right again after class, or on the next day. Delays in listening and reading will not work well for most students.

 

You should plan on listening to each work we study at least 8 times, in order to be able to recognize and identify each in the tests and exams.

 

Please bring the anthology to every class session, and be prepared to annotate it as we go through the listening examples in class.

 

Please give me advance notice of any absences.  More than three absences will lower your final grade.

 

No make-up exams will be given. If you miss an exam for any reason but a documented medical emergency, you loose the points.

 

There will be two Tests, a Mid-term and a Final Exam. All involve listening, analysis, and essays.  One live concert visit (Oct. 9 Angelus Concert Series: Andrea Anderson (LA) offers a Baroque Organ Recital, 8pm, Founders Chapel) and one CD review round out the grade.

 

CD Review due on Dec 3 (no class) by email:

Please name you document: your last name.02.CDrev.doc

Ex: “pfau.02.CDrev.doc”

and send to mpfau@sandiego.edu

 

 

GRADES

 

2 Tests                                     30%                 100-93 = A, 92-90 = A-

Mid-term                                  15%                 89‑87 = B+, 86‑83 = B, 82‑80 = B‑

Final                                         15%                 79‑77 = C+, 76‑73 = C, 72‑70 = C‑

Concert Attendance                  10%                 69-67 = D+, 66-63 = D, 62-60 = D-

CD Review                              20%                 below 59 = F

Participation                             10%                

                       

Total                                     100%                 

 

COURSE OUTLINE (subject to change)

 

Part I: BAROQUE MUSIC

 

Week 1 Sept. 3 Introduction

 

Week 2 Spet. 8 amd 10

 

1 The Birth of Opera: Florence, Mantua, and Venice

Early Opera in Florence

 Jacopo Peri, Euridice, “Funeste piagge  

Giulio Caccini, Le nuove musiche, Filli, mirando il cielo   

Early Opera in Mantua: Monteverdi’s Orfeo   

Early Opera in Venice   

 Claudio Monteverdi, L’incoronazione di Poppea, Duet,

Pur ti miro  

 

2 The Concerted Style in Venice and Dresden   

Giovanni Gabrieli and the Concerted Motet   

 Giovanni Gabrieli, In ecclesiis   

Claudio Monteverdi and the Concerted Madrigal   

 Claudio Monteverdi, Hor che ‘l ciel et la terra   

Barbara Strozzi and the Early Baroque Cantata   

 Barbara Strozzi, L’Amante Segreto: Voglio morire   

The Concerted Style Moves North: Heinrich Schütz in Dresden   

 Heinrich Schütz, Symphoniae sacrae, Saul, Saul, was verfolgst

du mich?   

 

Week 3 Sept. 15 and 17

 

3 Religious Music in Baroque Rome   

The Cappella Pontificia and the Stile Antico   

 Gregorio Allegri, Miserere mei, Deus   

St. Peter’s Basilica and the Colossal Baroque   

 Anonymous, Kyrie of the Missa Salisburgensis   

Organ Music by Girolamo Frescobaldi   

 Girolamo Frescobaldi, Fiori musicali, Mass for Sundays   

Toccata , Kyrie , Ricercar   

Sacred Opera and Oratorio: Giacomo Carissimi’s Jephte   

 Giacomo Carissimi, Jephte   

Plorate, filii Israel” (solo)   

Plorate, filii Israel” (chorus)   

The Chamber Cantata: A Christmas Cantata by Alessandro Scarlatti   

 Alessandro Scarlatti, Cantata Oh di Betlemme   

Recitative, “Oh di Betlemme  

Aria, “Dal bel seno d’una stella  

 

4 Instrumental Music in Italy   

The Violin Family   

Formation of the Baroque Orchestra   

Church and Chamber Music   

Salomone Rossi and the Early Baroque Sonata   

 Salomone Rossi, Sonata sopra l’aria di Ruggiero   

Arcangelo Corelli: Solo Sonata and Trio Sonata   

 Arcangelo Corelli, Opus 4, No. 1   

Preludio, Corrente, Adagio, Allemanda   

Trumpet Music by Giuseppe Torelli: The Beginnings of the Solo Concerto   

 Giuseppe Torelli, Trumpet Sinfonia in D major   

Antonio Vivaldi: Solo Concerto and Concerto Grosso   

 Antonio Vivaldi, Opus 3, L’estro armonico, Concerto Grosso, No. 8,

1st movement   

 

Week 4 Sept. 22 and 24

 

Exam on materials from weeks 1-3

 

5 Instrumental Music in Germany and Austria   

Johann Froberger and the Baroque Dance Suite   

 Johann Froberger, Suite No. 6 in C major   

Lamento (Allemande), Courante, Saraband , Gigue   

Biber and Kuhnau: The Programmatic Sonata   

 Heinrich Biber, “Mystery” Sonatas, The Resurrection   

The Doctrine of the Affections   

Dietrich Buxtehude and the North German Organ Tradition   

 Dieterich Buxtehude, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern   

Johann Pachelbel and the South German Tradition   

 Johann Pachelbel, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern   

 Johann Pachelbel, Canon in D major   

 

6 Music in Paris and at the Court of Versailles: Vocal Music   

Ballet de cour   

Jean-Baptiste Lully and Tragédie lyrique   

 Jean-Baptiste Lully, Armide   

Overture   

Enfin il est en ma puissance”   

Religious Music   

Elizabeth Jacquet de La Guerre and the Cantate française   

 Elizabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Jephté   

Aria, “Jephté revient”, Recitative, “La Fille de Jephté  

 

Week 5 Sept. 29 and Oct 1

 

7 Music in Paris and at the Court of Versailles: Instrumental Music   

The Gaultiers: French Lute Music   

 Denis Gaultier, La Rhétorique des dieux, Tombeau de Madamoiselle Gaultier   

The Couperins: French Harpsichord Music   

 François Couperin, Pièces de clavecin . . . premier livre, La Favorite   

The Eighteenth-Century French Harpsichord   

 François Couperin, Pièces de clavecin . . . quatrième livre, L’Arlequine   

 

From Ancient to Modern: Aspects of Baroque Music Theory   

Modality Yields to Tonality   

Chord Inversion, Functional Harmony, and the Circle of Fifths:

A Closed Musical Universe   

 

8 Music in London, Part I: Henry Purcell  

Henry Purcell and Theater Music  

 Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas   

Recitative, “Thy hand Belinda”  

Aria, “When I am laid in earth”  

Art Music Displaced by Folk Music  

Purcell’s Odes and Funeral Music for Queen Mary  

 Henry Purcell, Come, ye sons of art   

Chorus, “Come, ye sons of art”  

Duet, “Sound the trumpet”  

Chorus, “Come, ye sons of art”  

 Henry Purcell, Funeral Music for Queen Mary,

March and Canzona  

 

Week 6 Oct 6 and 8

 

9 Music in London, Part II:

George Frideric Handel   

Handel and the Dance Suite   

 George Frideric Handel, Water Music   

Minuet and Trio   

Hornpipe   

Handel and Opera   

The Castrato in Handel’s Operas   

 George Frideric Handel, Giulio Cesare, Aria, “V’adoro, pupille  

 Opera Then and Now   

Handel and Oratorio   

 George Frideric Handel, Messiah   

Aria, “He shall feed his flock” , “Hallelujah” chorus   

 

10 Johann Sebastian Bach, Part I:

Instrumental Music in Weimar and Cöthen  

Bach in Weimar: The Organ Music  

The Organ in Bach’s Day  

 Johann Sebastian Bach, Orgelbüchlein, “In dulci jubilo  

 Johann Sebastian Bach, Orgelbüchlein, “Durch Adams Fall ist ganz

verderbt  

Bach in Cöthen: Chamber and Orchestral Music  

 Johann Sebastian Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier,

Prelude and Fugue in C minor  

Pitch and Tuning in Bach’s Day  

 Johann Sebastian Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major  

 

Week 7 Oct 13 and 15

 

11 Johann Sebastian Bach, Part II:

Vocal Music in Leipzig   

The Lutheran Chorale Cantata   

Bach’s Choir and Orchestra: Where Were the Ladies?   

 Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme

Bach’s Four-Part Chorale Harmonizations and Teaching Music Theory Today   

Bach’s Later Musical Projects   

B-Minor Mass   

 Johann Sebastian Bach, B-Minor Mass, Credo: Crucifixus”, “Et resurrexit  

 

Midterm Exam

 

Part II: THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE CLASSICAL ERA

 

Week 8 Oct. 20 and

12 Music in the Age of Enlightenment: Opera   

Music of the Establishment: Enlightenment Opera Seria   

 Johann Adolf Hasse, Cleofide, Aria, “Digli ch’io son fedele  

Music and Social Change: Comic Opera   

 John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera, Dialogue and Songs from Act I   

 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, La serva padrona, Duet, “Lo conosco a quegl’occhieti  

 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Le Devin du village, Duet, “À jamais Colin”   

The Reform Operas of Gluck   

 Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice   

Aria, “Deh placatevi  Chorus, “Misero giovane  Obbligato recitative, “Ahimè! Dove trascorsi?”   

Aria, “Che faro senza Euridice  

 

13 Music in the Age of Enlightenment:

Orchestral Music   

Public Concerts   

The Early Symphony: Giovanni Battista Sammartini in Milan   

 Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Symphony No. 3 in D major, 1st movement   

Playing in an Eighteenth-Century Orchestra   

The Rise of Orchestral Discipline: Johann Stamitz in Mannheim   

 Johann Stamitz, La Melodia Germanica, Symphony in E-major, 1st movement   

 

Week 9 Oct 27 and 29

14 Music in the Age of Enlightenment:Keyboard Music   

Domestic Keyboard Music for Women   

The Advent of the Piano   

Domenico Scarlatti in Madrid   

 Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata No. 26 in A major from Essercizi   

C. P. E. Bach in Berlin   

C. P. E. Bach, Fantasia in C minor   

Pianos in London: Johann Christian Bach   

 J. C. Bach, Piano Sonata in D major, Opus 5, No. 2, 1st movement   

The Piano Comes to England   

 

15 Classical Music in Vienna   

Classical Style   

Classical Forms   

Classical Genres   

The Classical Orchestra   

Classical Composers   

 

Week 10 Nov 3 and 5

16 Joseph Haydn: Instrumental Music   

The Life of Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)   

Haydn’s Early and Middle Symphonies   

 Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 6 in D major, Le Matin, 1st movement   

Haydn’s String Quartets   

 Joseph Haydn, Opus 33, No. 3, The “Bird” Quartet, 1st movement   

Haydn’s Sonatas and Concertos   

 

17 Joseph Haydn: Late Symphonies and Vocal Music   

The Paris Symphonies   

The London Symphonies   

 Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 94, The “Surprise,” 2nd movement   

 Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 99 in E_ major, 1st movement   

The Late Vocal Music   

 Joseph Haydn, The Creation, “The Heavens Are Telling”   

 

Week 11 Nov 10 and 12

Exam on materials from Weeks 8-10

 

18 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:

Instrumental Music   

The Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)   

Symphonies   

 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 40 in G minor, 1st movement   

 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 41 in C major, The “Jupiter,” 4th movement   

Chamber Music   

Piano and Violin Sonatas   

Concertos   

 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto in A major, 1st movement   

 

Week 12 Nov 17 and 19

19 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Vocal Music   

Lorenzo da Ponte: Librettist to Mozart   

 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro   Aria, “Se vuol ballare  

Aria, “Porgi, amor  Aria, “Voi, che sapete  Ensemble, “Vostre dunque  

Requiem Mass   

 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Requiem Mass   Confutatis  Lacrimosa  

 

Week 13 Nov 24

 

20 The Early Music of Beethoven   

Years of Apprenticeship: 1770–1792   

Beethoven’s World in 1792   

Vienna: 1792–1802   

Carl Czerny Meets Beethoven   

Piano Music and the Pathétique Sonata   

 Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata in C minor (Pathétique), 1st movement   

Piano Concerto in C major   

 Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, 3rd movement   

The Onset of Deafness   

 

Week 14 Dec 1 (no class on Dec 3)

 

CD Review due on Dec 3 (no class) by email:

Please name you document: your last name.331.CDrev.doc

Ex: “pfau.331.CDrev.doc”

and send to mpfau@sandiego.edu

 

21 Beethoven’s Middle Period: 1802–1814   

Beethoven’s Life and Music during the Middle Period   

Beethoven’s Symphonies: New Paths   

The Heiligenstadt Testament (excerpt)   

 Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 (Eroica), 2nd movement (Funeral March)   

The Opera Fidelio   

Affairs of the Heart: The Immortal Beloved   

 

 

Week 15: Dec 8 and 10

22 After the Congress of Vienna: Beethoven’s Late Music   

Music at the Congress of Vienna   

Beethoven’s Life and Works in His Late Period   

String Quartet in B_ major   

 Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet in B-major, 5th movement (Cavatina)   

Ludwig van Beethoven, Missa Solemnis, Kyrie   

Beethoven’s Death and Funeral   

 

Review

 

Final ExamThursday Dec 17, 8-10am