MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE (second edition)
Textbook and Anthology
DAVID SCHULENBERG
This is a textbook on European music during the period 1600–1750. Published by Oxford University Press, it is intended primarily for undergraduate music majors and graduate students in music. It will also be of interest to musicians, teachers, and listeners who desire an up-to-date survey of Baroque music. To order a copy, click here. To see a table of contents, click here.
The text focuses on a repertory of about fifty selected works from several of the principal traditions of the Baroque. Most are included in the accompanying anthology; click here to order a copy of the anthology. To see a table of contents for the anthology, click here.
For a discography listing recordings of works included in in both volumes, click here. The discography includes links to online recordings by the author for a number of works not readily available in commercial recordings.
For sample paper assignments and worksheets that can be used in teaching a course based on this textbook, click here.
For revisions and corrections to the current editions of the two volumes, click here.
Each work is discussed not only as a representative of a particular historical tradition but as an individual response by its composer to a verbal text or an expressive aspiration. Hence the book offers models for both musical criticism and analysis in a variety of compositional styles; in addition, it provides substantial discussions of original instrumentation and performance practices for many works. Works discussed include such familiar ones as Monteverdi's Orfeo and a Bach Brandenburg Concerto, as well as lesser-known compositions, including several by women composers. In addition, opening and closing chapters on late-Renaissance and galant music provide bridges to earlier and later periods of European music history. Aids for students and teachers include synopses of operatic works, biographical timelines for major composers, an annotated bibliography, and numerous illustrations, musical examples, and analytical tables. Technical terms are highlighted at their first mention in the text, which includes carefully formulated definitions of each new concept. Many works are presented in new editions in the anthology, which also includes new translations of the texts of all vocal compositions, as well as commentary on sources, editorial issues, notation, and performance practices.
The second edition offers expanded coverage of instrumental music, discussing music for lute and guitar as well as a more diverse range of works for instrumental ensemble, including a trumpet sinfonia by Torelli and chamber sonatas by Salomone Rossi, Castello, and Legrenzi. Sacred music now includes a French grand motet by Lalande. The anthology includes the new works just mentioned as well as new or improved editions of scores by Monteverdi, Strozzi, Lully, Jacquet de La Guerre, Couperin, and J.S. and C.P.E. Bach. The complete text of both volumes has been thoroughly revised and updated, incorporating current biographical and bibliographical information that reflects the latest scholarship.
CONTENTS: Music of the Baroque, second edition
Preface
1. Introduction
2. A Sixteenth-Century Prologue: Motet and Madrigal
3. Transitions Around 1600
4. Monteverdi and Early Baroque Musical Drama
5. Secular Vocal Music of the Later Seventeenth Century
6. Lully and French Musical Drama
7. Seventeenth-Century Sacred Music
8. Late Baroque Opera
9. Late Baroque Sacred Music
10. Music for Solo Instruments I: Toccata and Suite
11. Music for Solo Instruments II: Fugues and Pièces
12. Music for Instrumental Ensemble I: The Sonata
13. Music for Instrumental Ensemble II: Sinfonia and Concerto
14. A Mid-Eighteenth-Century Epilogue: The Galant Style
Bibliography
CONTENTS: Music of the Baroque: An Anthology of Scores, second edition
1. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Dum complerentur (motet)
2. Orlando di Lassus: Timor et tremor (motet)
3. Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa: Beltà, poi che t'assenti (madrigal)
4. Claudio Monteverdi: Luci serene (madrigal)
5. Giulio Caccini: Sfogava con le stelle (continuo madrigal)
6. Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo, act 2 (opera: selections)
7. Claudio Monteverdi: Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (balletto or "dramatic madrigal")
8. Pier Francesco Cavalli: Giasone (opera: selections)
9. Barbara Strozzi: Ardo in tacito foco (cantata or strophic aria)
10. Alessandro Scarlatti: Correa nel seno amato (cantata: selections)
11. Henry Purcell: From rosy bowers (cantata)
12. Jean-Baptiste Lully: Armide (opera: selections)
13. Giovanni Gabrieli: In ecclesiis (concertato motet)
14. Heinrich Schütz: Herr, neige deine Himmel SWV 361 (concertato motet)
15. Heinrich Schütz: Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich? SWV 415 (concertato motet)
16. Giacomo Carissimi: Jephte (oratorio: selections)
17. Michel Richard de Lalande: De profundis (grand motet: selections)
18. George Frideric Handel: Orlando (opera: selections)
19. Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les indes galantes (opéra-ballet: selections)
20. Johann Sebastian Bach: Herr Jesu Christ, wahr'r Mensch und Gott BWV 127 (sacred cantata)
21. George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (English oratorio: selections)
22. Ennemond Gaultier: Pieces for Lute
23. Girolamo Frescobaldi: Toccata 7 from Libro II)
24. Johann Jacob Froberger: Suite 20 in D
25. Elizabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: Suite 3 in A minor (prelude)
26. Dieterich Buxtehude: Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist BuxWV 208 (chorale prelude)
27. Dietreich Buxtehude: Praeludium in A Minor BuxWV 153
28. Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G (from The Well-Tempered Clavier, part 1)
29. Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, François Couperin, and Jean-Philippe Rameau: Extracts From Ornament Tables
30. François Couperin: Vingt-unième ordre (keyboard suite: selections)
31. Salamone Rossi: Sonata sopra La Bergamasca
32. Dario Castello: Sonata 12 from Libro II
33. Biagio Marini: Sonata variata for violin and continuo
34. Hans Ignaz Franz Biber: Sonata 5 in E minor for violin and continuo (1681)
35. Giovanni Legrenzi: Sonata La Strasolda for two violins and continuo
36. Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata in C for violin and continuo, op. 5, no. 3 (solo sonata da chiesa)
37. Giuseppe Torelli: Sinfonia in D for trumpet, strings, and continuo G. 8
38. Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto grosso in G minor, op. 6, no. 8, "Christmas"
39. Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in E for violin, strings, and continuo, op. 3, no. 12 (RV 265)
40. Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no. 2 in F, BWV 1047
41. Georg Philipp Telemann: Nouveau quatuor no. 6 in E minor for flute, violin, viola da gamba (or cello) and continuo, TWV 43: e4
42. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: "Württemberg" Sonata no. 1 in A minor for keyboard, W. 49/1
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