Syllabus FALL 2007
MUSC 2100
 Department of Performing Arts
Millsaps College | Jackson, MS

The Evolution of Style in Western Music

STUDY GUIDE FOR TEST #3
The Baroque Era

Make sure you have read the relevant pages in Seaton listed on your handout.

This test will focus primarily on your ability to recognize musical genre by both eye (score) and ear (listening). Your ability to do this quickly and successfully will depend to a great extent on how well you use the style analysis techniques of LaRue, as we understand them so far. As you study and listen to the musical examples below, use SHMRG to separate and consider in your mind the various musical elements, so that you can synthesize them into awareness of the musical style of that selection. Each genre name is listed in red.

Although you WILL be asked to name compositions and composers, identifying the genre and WHY you think it is that particular genre is far more important.

LIST OF GENRES AND TERMS
SOME QUESTIONS TO KNOW THE ANSWERS TO

Currently on the NetJuke BAROQUE playlist:

VOCAL

  • Dowland: "Flow, My Tears" lute song
  • Monteverdi: Orfeo excerpts (opera: look at Ritornello, recitative, arioso, aria, etc.)
  • Monteverdi: Poppea excerpts (opera: recitative, arioso, aria)
  • Barbara Strozzi: Lagrime mie (solo cantata)
  • Schutz: Saul, was verfolgst du mich (Sacred Concerto)
  • Lully: Armide (French Overture, then Act II, scene 5)
  • Purcell: aria/recitative from Dido & Aeneas (Thy Hand, Belinda/When I am Laid in Earth)
  • Carissimi: Jephte excerpts (oratorio)
  • Alessandro Scarlatti: Clori vessoza (da capo aria from a cantata)
  • Handel: excerpts from "Giulio Cesare" (opera seria)
  • Handel: excerpts from "Saul" (oratorio)
  • Bach: Cantata (Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland)

INSTRUMENTAL

  • Byrd: Pavane Lachrymae (on Dowland's "Flow, My Tears")
  • Frescobaldi: Toccata #3 (harpsichord)
  • Marini: Sonata IV (early sonata)
  • Jacquet de la Guerre: Harpsichord Suite #3 in Am (all movements)
  • Francois Couperin: excerpts from Vingt-cinquieme ordre (suite)
  • Bach: excerpts from harpsichord Partita (or Suite) #5 -- compare w/ Couperin (score handout from Wednesday 10/31)
    • PREAMBULUM, ALLEMANDE, SARABANDE, CORRENTE, & GIGUE
  • Corelli Trio Sonata
  • Vivaldi Violin Concerto in A minor
  • Bach: Organ Prelude & Fugue in A minor
  • [the Bach Chorale Prelude on Durch Adams Fall will not be on the test]