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Baroque and Rococo Music Overview

The document outlines various musical compositions from the Baroque and Rococo periods, categorized by composer and style. It includes details such as the type of ensemble, structure, movement characteristics, and thematic elements for each piece. Notable composers mentioned are Corelli, Vivaldi, Lully, Couperin, Rameau, Bach, Handel, Hasse, Pergolesi, and C.P.E. Bach.

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Baroque and Rococo Music Overview

The document outlines various musical compositions from the Baroque and Rococo periods, categorized by composer and style. It includes details such as the type of ensemble, structure, movement characteristics, and thematic elements for each piece. Notable composers mentioned are Corelli, Vivaldi, Lully, Couperin, Rameau, Bach, Handel, Hasse, Pergolesi, and C.P.E. Bach.

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Italian

Corelli
1. Sonata da chiesa op. 3 no. 2 in D (1689)
-trio sonata: 2 violins, basso continuo
-4 movements: slowfastslowfast (homopolyhomopoly)
-walking bass, free ornaments
-sacred

Vivaldi
2. Violin concerto Op. 3 No. 6 in A minor (1711)
-violin concerto: solo violin, strings, continuo
-3 movements: fastslowfast (homo)
-melody in sequence, terraced dynamics, ritornello form
-secular

French
Lully
3. Armide (1685)
-Tragedies en musique: (large) strings, flute, basso continuo
A. Overture: slowfast (homopoly)
B. ‘Enfin, il est en ma puissance’ recitative secco: slow, free (monody)
-double-dotting, notes inegdes, precise rhythm notation
-secular

Couperin
4. Twenty-fifth Keyboard Suite/Ordre, Pieces de Clavecin (1730)
-miniature for harpsichord in binary form
A. La visionaire: French overture style, fastslow (homo)
B. La muse victorieuse: passepied/minuet (poly)
-secular

Rameau
5. Hippolyte et Aricie (1733)
-opera: soprano, chorus, strings, continuo
-recitative accompagnato
-melody derived from harmony, word painting
-secular
German
Bach
6. Prelude and Fugue in a minor BWV 543 (1715)
-organ
-prelude: violinistic figuration, fugue: ritornello (subject)
-secular

7. Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV 62 (1724)


-cantata/sacred concerto: SATB, strings, basso continuo, 2 oboes, horn
-choralearia (t)recitative (b)aria (b)recitative (s, a)chorale [arch form]
-ritornello opening
-sacred

English
Handel
[Link] Cesare, HWV 17 (1724)
-opera seria, aria ‘V’adore puille’: soprano, orchestra
-homophonic
-French rhythm, Italian da capo form, German doubling
-secular
High Baroque/Rococo
Hasse
1. Cleofide (1731)
-opera seria, da capo aria: oboe double violin, viola, basso continuo, soprano
-Italian, expressing love
-homophonic, solo repeats orchestra introducation

Pergolesi
2. La serva padronna (The maid as Mistress)
-intermezzo (opera buffa), recit secco: bass, soprano, strings, harpsichord,
da capo aria: bass
-Italian, Recit: confused about marrying a servant Aria: confused about love
Funny: lower class character being smart, repeating motive/words, light accom,
low voice
-homophonic
-Gallant: light,

C.P.E Bach
3. Symphony in F, W.183 No. 3 (1775)
-symphony, first and third movement: strings, horn, flute, oboe, basso continuo
-homophonic (violin melody, winds filling)
1st movement
-Mannheim Rocket
-Sturm ung Drang: dissonance, fast runnings, contrasting dynamics, strong unison
-Empfindsamkeit: sudden retard, sounds improvised, chromatic, recit-like,

3rd movement
-Mannheim
-gallant: periodicity, rhetoric, light, echo (piano-forte)

4. Sonata in A W.55 No. 4 (1765)


-keyboard sonata, second movement: fortepiano
-homophonic
-Empfindsamkeit: long line, sounds improvised, chromatic, recit-like, asymmetrical
5. Flute concerto in D minor (1750)
-flute concerto, third movement: strings, harpsichord, flute
-homophonic
-ritornello form
-Sturm ung Drang: dissonance, fast runnings, contrasting dynamics, strong unison

6. Haydn
Symphony No 44 (1772)
-symphony, fourth movement: strings, horn, 2 oboe, bassoon
-homophonic
-Sturm ung Drang: dissonance, minor key, fast, contrasting dynamics,
strong, repeating unison

D. Scarlatti
7. Sonata K119 (CA. 1740)
-keyboard sonata: harpsichord
-homophonic
-binary form
-Spanish style: flamenco, guitar-like crushing chords (V9b7)

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