[Jacopo Peri, one of the inventors of opera, hoping (in vain) to be featured in Quiz 6 (Baroque Music), c. 12:10pm, Wednesday, March 6, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon, CA]
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=XQx2TWgxX14
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)
***
Harriet's 80th birthday, with
Megan, in the evening,
proceeded by an
errand run,
on a third-in-a-row very rainy day
(1.39 additional, total 22.24 since July 1) --
56th of spring,
high up 7 to 61 (locally and in Fairfield / San Ramon; Pleasant Hill, 62), at least a decided temperature improvement,
greeting the Music Historians with late Renaissance Music and Quiz V,
returning
in
similar
conditions to finish editing new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act IV (68 pages total), plus compose
Broke Dance Intermezzi: C, Op. 299
IVc10. Congolese Conga (Estragon)
Xavier Cugat, Guido Haazen, Erique Garcia, Gloria Estefan
and
IVc11. Combined Contrary Contredanse (Eroica Erasure)
W.A. Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven
... 4 / 2 pages...
