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Week 1

Jan. 8-12

 

Baroque Music Library

 

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Opera and Vocal Music in the Late 17th Century

French, English Opera PPT

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Order books and articles from inter-library loan

 

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Reading

Chapter 16, pp. 353-83 and Chapter 17, pp. 384-400

 

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Listening

 Recitative, Aria from Clori vezzosa, e bella (Scarlatti)
 CD 5/56-60NAWM 82, pp. 567-72
 Ouverture, Recitative from Armide (Lully)
 

CD5/23-39

NAWM 77a+b, 511-521

 Recitative, Lament, Chorus from Dido & Aeneas (Purcell)
 

CD 5/39-42

NAWM 79, pp. 537-45

   
   

Week 2

Jan. 15-19

 

Instrumental Music in the Late Baroque Period

If It Ain't Baroque . . .

 

 Instrumental PPT

 

 

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Choose research topic

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Reading

Chapter 16, pp. 400-413

 

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Listening

 Praeludium in E (Buxtehude)
 CD 6/6-12NAWM 84, pp. 582-86
 La visionaire, La muse victorieuse (Couperin)
 

CD6/31-34

NAWM 86, 620-25

 Trio Sonata:  Opus 3, No. 2 (Corelli)
 

CD 6/1-5

NAWM 83, pp. 573-81

   
   

  

 

Week 3

Jan. 22-26

Music in the Early Eighteenth Century (Part I)

Couperin, Vivaldi, Rameau PPT

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Due Tues

Quiz #1

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Outline

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Reading

Chapter 18, pp. 414-37

 

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 Concerto Grosso in A Minor, Op. 3, No. 6 (Vivaldi)
 CD 6/13-30NAWM 85, pp. 587-619
 Hippolyte et Aricie, Act IV, Conclusion (Rameau)
 

CD6/35-37

NAWM 87, 626-46

  
   
   
   

Week 4

Jan. 29-Feb. 2

Music in the Early Eighteenth Century (Part II)

German Composers of the Late Baroque

 

Bach PPT

 

Anatomy of a Fugue

 

Handel PPT

 

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Due Thurs

Draft 1 (tentative)

 

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Reading

Chapter 19, pp. 438-71

 

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Listening

 Praeludium et Fuga in A Minor (J.S. Bach)
 CD 6/38-48NAWM 88, pp. 647-57
 Cantata, Nun komm (J.S. Bach)
 

CD6/50-52, 58-60, 63-64 (only)

NAWM 90, no. 1 (Chorus, pp. 658-63) and Nos. 2, 5, and 6 (Aria, Accomp. Recit., Chorale, pp. 669-76, 679-81)

 Giulio Cesare, Act II, Scene 2 (Handel)
 

CD 6/65-70

NAWM 91, pp. 684-93

   
   

Week 5

Feb. 5-9

Review for Unit Exam 1

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Due Thurs

Unit Exam 1

 

Week 6

Feb. 12-16

 

Tues., Feb. 13:  Composition Master Class

 

No class on Thurs., Feb. 15

because of TMEA

              

Week 7

Feb. 19-23

Classical Handouts 

The Enlightenment PPT,

Vocal Music and Opera PPT

Opera in the Early Classic Period

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Reading

Chapter 20, pp. 472-97

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Listening

 La serva padrona (Pergolesi)  1733
 CD 7/1-6NAWM 93, pp. 1-16
 The Beggar's Opera (Gay)  1728
 

CD7/12-13

NAWM 95  pp. 26-29

 

Week 8

Feb. 26-Mar 2

 

Opera Reform,

Sonata, Symphony in the Early Classic Period

Evolution of the Orchestra

Midcentury Instrumental Music PPT

 

Evolution of the Sonata

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Reading

Chapter 20, pp. 497-505

Chapter 21, pp. 506-524

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Listening

 Orfeo ed Euridice, Act II, Scene 1 (Gluck) 1762
 CD 7/14-19NAWM 96, pp. 30-52
 Sonata in D Major (Scarlatti) 1749
 

CD7/22-25

NAWM 98, pp. 59-63

 Symphony in F Major (Sammartini) 1730?
 CD 7/28-30NAWM 100, pp. 68-72
 Sonata in A Major, H. 186 (C.P.E. Bach) 1779
 

CD7/26-27

NAWM 99  pp. 64-67

 Sinfonia a 8 in E-flat Major (Stamitz) 1755
 CD 7/31-35NAWM 101, pp. 73-83

Week 9

Mar. 5-9

The Late Eighteenth Century:  Haydn and Mozart

Mozart PPT

Sonata Form

 

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Reading

Chapter 22, pp. 525-565

 

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Listening

 Symphony No. 92:2 (Haydn) 1791
 CD 7/61-64NAWM 104, pp. 133-44, 173-5
 String Quartet Op. 33, No. 2 (Joke) Haydn 1781
 

CD 8/1-5

NAWM 103, pp. 103-10

 Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488 (Mozart) 1786
 CD 8/6-23NAWM 106, pp. 184-217
 Don Giovanni, Act. I, Scenes 1-2 (Mozart) 1787
 

CD 8/24-28

NAWM 107, pp. 218-240

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Due Thurs

Draft #2

SPRING BREAK

Week 10

Mar. 19-23

 

Beethoven PPT

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Reading

Chapter 23, pp. 568-594

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Listening

 Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major (I) Beethoven 1803
 CD 8/36-51NAWM 109, pp. 248-89
 String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131 (Beethoven) 1826
 

CD 8/52-53

NAWM 110, pp. 290-93

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Quiz #2

  

Week 11

Mar. 26-30

 

Study Guide for Exam #2

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Exam #2

 

  

 

Week 12

Apr. 2-6

 

Handouts:  Beethoven to Romantics

Syllabus Unit 3

 

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Week 13

Apr. 9-13

 

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Week 14

Apr. 16-20

 
  

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Week 15

Apr. 23-27


Study Guide for Exam #3

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