[Jacopo Peri, one of the inventors of opera, hoping (in vain) to be featured in Quiz 6 (Baroque Music), Wednesday, July 3, Diablo Valley College, 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)
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Renaissance Music for the Historians of San Ramon
and
Pleasant Hill,
on the 86th day of summer, high up 1 to 90 --
Pleasant Hill, 85
San Ramon, 75
Berkeley, 74
Paper-grading at
Outback, then over to
Megan Dibble's in-town studio to rehearse the
Goat Hall Flower Piano 2019 show,
including selections from Henry Miller in Brooklyn, Op. 77 (1999). Upon return begin
Fifteen Inventions ("Technological"), Op. 326 (July 1, 2019)
Machinations for Orchestra
I. Fire
and edit page 64 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act V, Scene 2...
