[Jacopo Peri, one of the inventors of opera, hoping (in vain) to be featured in Diablo Valley College Music Appreciation Quiz 6 (Baroque Music) -- Wednesday, March 4, San Ramon; Thursday-Friday, March 5-6, Pleasant Hill]
D, A, E Major / E Minor
Three Genres in Baroque Music, and Their Typical Movements
Opera
Overture
Recitative
Aria (Duet, Trio, Quartet, etc.)
Chorus
(etc.)
Suite
Overture
Dance I
Dance II
(etc.)
Concerto
Fast
Slow
Fast
Birth-Death Years for J.S. Bach, and
Three Stylistic Periods (Cities of Activity) - Types of Music Written in Each
J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Weimar - Organ
Cothen - Instrumental
Leipzig - Vocal
Listening
Claudio Monteverdi - Vespers: I. Deus in Adjutorium (I. God Come to My Aid)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GYjNj75MFI
(John Eliot Gardiner early-music version -- with Vocal Score!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Monteverdi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespro_della_Beata_Vergine
http://imslp.org/wiki/Vespro_della_Beata_Vergine,_SV_206_(Monteverdi,_Claudio)
(Full Score)
Heinrich Schutz - Saul, Saul
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/heinrich-schutz-1585-1672-saul.html
(N.B. Best heard/viewed on Firefox)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Schütz
https://www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/43mym9/heinrich_schutz_saul_saul_was_verfolgst_du_mich/
http://imslp.org/wiki/Saul%2C_Saul%2C_was_verfolgst_du_mich%3F%2C_SWV_415_(Sch%C3%BCtz%2C_Heinrich)
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas: When I Am Laid in Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGQq3HcOB0Y
(OK version, preceeded by recit. Thy Hand, Belinda [about a minute] with Vocal / Bass Line Score)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeB4cpRq16M
(Dramatic version)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Purcell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dido_and_Aeneas
http://imslp.org/wiki/Dido_and_Aeneas,_Z.626_(Purcell,_Henry)
Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria: I. Gloria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgaOVV4JQHA
All-women's group, reflecting Vivaldi's employment situation!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Vivaldi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_(Vivaldi)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Gloria_in_D_major,_RV_589_(Vivaldi,_Antonio)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Organ Fugue in G Minor ("Little")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Kq60w-AXk
(with Score!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue_in_G_minor,_BWV_578
George Frideric Handel - Messiah: Hallelujah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4LDVrnAQeo
(Keyboard-Vocal Score)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iXmIjpGsGc&p=FA3F0EFACB26D72D&playnext=1&index=2
(Live Early-Music performance)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_(Handel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_Part_II
http://imslp.org/wiki/Messiah,_HWV_56_(Handel,_George_Frideric)
(Full Score - 44. Hallelujah, at bottom of listings)
***
After class with the DVC Friday Music Historians (seen above in the concluding Quiz 5 -- Renaissance),
back out walking on the Coast Range Pony Express Trail,
specifically Pampered Pets Parking to Cherry Glen Hill Bend, on the 16th day of summer, high back down 3 to 76 (locally and in Martinez -- Fairfield 77; Pleasant Hill, 75)... composing page 2
No Exit, Op. 330
XIV. Don't Turn
