Cal Poly SLO - Department of Music - Course Information
Music 332 (Music History II: Music of
the Baroque and Early Classic Eras) - Spring 2011
Professor: Dr. Alyson McLamore Office
Phone: 756-2612
Office: 132 Davidson Music
Center
Email: amclamor@calpoly.edu Web
Site: http://cla.calpoly.edu/~amclamor
Office Hours: Tues 11-12; Wed 1:30-3:30; Thurs 12-1 and
by appointment—just ask!
Course Description: In this course, we'll look
at western art music of the Baroque and early Classic eras from several
perspectives: as individual masterworks, as representatives of various
composers, as examples of particular styles, genres, and forms, as analytic
problems, and as artworks derived from changing social milieus. We'll emphasize the development of
skills in talking and writing about music. The course will include lectures and class discussions,
assigned readings, oral presentations, and periodic examinations.
Required Course Materials:
Books and Scores:
Bonds, Mark Evan. A History of Music in Western Culture. Third Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice
Hall, 2010.
Bonds, Mark Evan. An Anthology of Scores for A History of Music in Western Culture – Volumes One and Two. Third Edition. Upper Saddle River,
NJ: Prentice Hall, 2010.
Course Reader - available for a small
fee from Dr. McLamore
(from MU 320): Hacker, Diana. A Writer's Reference.
6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2007.
Listening Materials:
Compact Disks to accompany A
History of Music in Western Culture – Volumes One and Two. Third Edition.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2010.
Supplemental
Listening - recordings will be available for listening via a loaner CD from the
Music Department
Please bring your scores & reader
with you every day, and please do your reading before each class.
Prerequisites: Music Research & Writing (MU 320), and Theory II, which was a
prerequisite for MU 320. Music
Appreciation is recommended; Music History I and Theory III are strongly
advised.
Course
Requirements:
I. Two
Midterm Exams, on April 19 and May
10 (25% each).
II. A Final
Exam, on June 7 (30%).
III. A Class
Presentation (20%). The
presentation will be an in-class report on a topic of your choice (subject to
my approval). A good handout is expected, and your
presentation will be graded on content, organization, and delivery. Please give
me a copy of your final outline
before you begin to speak.
Guidelines are in the Reader.
IV. Regular
and Prompt Attendance—WITH SCORES and READER—is Required. If,
through some unfortunate circumstance, you are absent or tardy, I ask that you
provide me with an explanation.
Absences or tardies for reasons that appear to
be within your control will hurt your grade. Besides your (alert) physical presence, your scores and
reader are equally essential for success in the course. If you forget to bring required
materials more than once, you will be asked to go obtain them, even if that
requires you to go home to do so.
Persistent problems with this requirement will also affect your grade.
V. All
components of the course must be completed in order to receive a passing grade.
Failure to meet your presentation due date will normally
result in a failure of the course, unless we have agreed on a valid
reason for a deadline extension.
Quarter Calendar - Spring 2011
* = Recording is on the Supplemental
CD, not the Bonds set
Chapter
Week 1 Mar
29 Tues The
EMIs of the Baroque Era and Le nuove musiche Part III Prelude
69
– Caccini: Sfogava con le stelle – 1602 (2:12)
Mar
31 Thurs. [No
class meeting - Chavez Holiday]
Week 2 Apr 5 Tues. New
Treatment of the Voice [choose your research topic!] 7, 8
70
– Monteverdi: Cruda Amarilli
– 1605 (2:56)
73
– Francesca Caccini: Lasciatemi qui solo – 1618 (5:32)
72
– Monteverdi: Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti
– ca. 1630 (5:32)
74
– Strozzi: Tradimento! – 1659 (2:14)
Apr
7 Thurs. Opera Hits
the Road . . . ; Topics
Due
76
– Monteverdi: L'Orfeo,
Act II, excerpt – 1607 (13:36)
77
– Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea, Act I, Scene 3 – 1642 (8:26)
Week 3 Apr
12 Tues. .
. . and
Heads North . . .;
* Scarlatti, Alessando: Sinfonia (Act I)
from La Griselda - 1721 (2:36)
80
– Lully: Armide,
Overture and Act II, Sc 5 - 1686 (2:27, 5:21)
* Purcell:
Overture from Dido and Aeneas -
1689 (2:15)
* Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Act III (excerpts)
– 1689 (8:17)
Apr 14 Thurs. Other
Baroque Vocal Roles Research
Questionnaire Due
79
– Schtz: Saul,
was verfolgst du mich? – 1650 (2:14)
84 – Carissimi:
Jepthe, Excerpt
– bef. 1650 (4:39)
86
– Jacquet de la Guerre: Judith Le coup est achev
– 1708 (3:22)
Week 4 Apr
19 Tues. Midterm I
Apr
21 Thurs. En Route to
the Fugue 9
94
– Buxtehude: Praeludium in G minor, BuxWV
149 – c. 1675–1689 (8:07)
* Anonymous: Canzona per l'epistola
– c. 1600 (2:29)
93
– Frescobaldi: Il secondo libro di toccate: Toccata nona –
1627 (4:13)
* Frescobaldi:
Messa della
Madonna, Ricercar dopo il Credo – c. 1610 (3:31)
95
– Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier I
– Prelude & Fugue in C Major – 1722 (4:15)
Week 5 Apr 26 Tues. New
Instrumental Features
96 – Pachelbel:
Chorale Prelude – Magnificat peregrini toni – late 17th c (1:26)
97 – Bach: Chorale Prelude – Meine
Seele erhebt den Herren – 1748 (2:10)
* Froberger: Suite XXII
in E minor – c. 1650 (7:09)
91
– Couperin: Pices de Clavecin, Bk I – Second ordre
(excerpts) – 1713 (1:46, 2:09)
Apr 28 Thurs. France and
Italy; Interim Bibliography Due
92
– Rebel: Les lmens
Le cahos" – 1737 (6:00)
88
– Leonarda: Sonata
duodecima – 1693 (9:46)
* Corelli: Sonata de camera, Op. 2, No. 4 –
1685 (6:35)
Week 6 May 3 Tues. The
Larger Genres 10
89
– Corelli: Concerto Grosso in F Major, Op. 6, No. 2 – c. 1685 (9:44)
90
– Vivaldi: Concerto in A minor,
Op. 3, No. 8, mvt. 1 – 1711 (3:15)
May 5 Thurs. The
Lutheran Organist
87
– Bach: Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78 – 1724 (4:28, 4:26,
2:28, 2:57, :57)
98
– Bach: Goldberg Variations,
Aria & Vars I-IV - 1741 (2:29, 1:33, 1:04, 1:00, :35)
Week 7 May
10 Tues. Midterm II
May
12 Thurs. Germany +
Italy + England = Handel; Preliminary
Outline Due
81
– Handel: Giulio Cesare, Act I,
Scenes 5-7 – 1724 (6:15, 5:03, 4:16)
* Handel: Messiah, Excerpts – 1741 (3:04,
3:43)
85
– Handel: Zadok the Priest – 1727 (5:41)
Week 8 May 17 Tues. Glimmerings of the Classic Era Part
IV Prelude, 11
100
- D. Scarlatti: Sonata in D Major, K.
492 (L. 14, P. 443) – c. ?1750 (3:57)
May 19 Thurs. The Classic
Era – New Stars are Born 12
102
– J. C. Bach: Sonata in D Major,
Op. 5, no. 2, mvt. 1 – 1766 (4:34)
103
– C. P. E. Bach: Fantasia in C minor,
Wq. 63/6 – 1753 (5:39)
104
– Haydn: Piano Sonata in C minor,
Hob. XVI:20, mvt. 1 –
1771 (8:43)
105
– Haydn: String Quartet in C Major,
Op. 33, no. 3 – 1781 (7:11, 3:21, 6:55, 2:45)
Week 9 May
24 Tues. Student Presentations (all materials are due from everyone)
May
26 Thurs. Student Presentations
Week 10 May 31 Tues. The
Classic Era – Growing Orchestral Power
99
– G. M. Monn: Symphony in B Major, mvt. 1 – c.
1740 (4:33)
* Monn: Symphony in B
Major, mvts. 2–3 – c. 1740 (4:23,
1:31)
101
– Stamitz: Symphony
in D Major, Op. 3, no. 2, mvt. 1 – 1752-5
(3:07)
* Stamitz: Symphony in
D Major, Op. 3, no. 2, mvts. 2–4 –
1752-5 (2:16, 3:09, 1:50)
106
– Haydn: Symphony No. 103 in E-flat
Major, mvt. 1 – 1795 (9:31)
June
2 Thurs. Lasting
Classical Legacies – The Piano Concerto
107
– Mozart: Piano Concerto in D
Major, K. 107, No. 1, mvt. 1 – 1772 (5:41)
108
– Mozart: Piano Concerto in E-flat
Major, K. 271, mvt. 1
– 1777 (9:59)
Finals June 7 Tues. Final Exam: 1-4 pm (please bring back your Loaner CD!)