CLASS: Nov 9, 2018-- Almost complete

Question 1

The ____ Cantata is very different than the Bach Cantata

Answer 1

The Italian Cantata is very different than the Bach Cantata

Question 2

REVIEW QUESTIONS:

What is the difference between a favola en musica (Musical Tale) and early opera?

Answer 2

• PERFORMANCE VENUE
  
  • favola en musica- Court mostly, invitation only
  • Early Opera- Public, still costly
• STORIES
  
  • favola en musica-
  • Early Opera- Historial Fantasy
• STYLE
  
  • favola en musica- Both Dramatic and staged
  • Early Opera
    
    • Much more focused on early pleasures and desires, sensuality. The mistress wins out.
• SOUNDS
  
  • favola en musica- Individual sections to create Genre
    
    • You can see it on the page “Strophic aria for ___”, “Recitative for the messenger”
  • Early Opera- It’s own Genre

*Finish this by looking at the previous class

Question 3

REVIEW QUESTIONS:

What is the difference between early opera and oratorio? What are the similarities?

Answer 3

• STAGED
  
  • Oratorio- Not Staged
  • Early Opera- Staged
• SACRED
  
  • Oratorio- Sacred
    
    • Bible story modified into a libretto
    • Narrator telling the story
  • Early Opera- Not sacred
• SIMILARITIES
  
  • Both dramatic
  • Both use aria and recitative
• CITY
  
  • Oratorio- Rome (during lint, because opera houses are shut down)

Question 4

• Composer that wrote a lot of concerted music
• Worked in Northeastern Germany most his life as a church musician
• Funded and travelled to Venice to study with Gabrieli
  
  • Made possible by the choir balconies in St. Marks
    
    • First place to see the balconies
    • Each balcony in each corner
    • Each balcony has an organ in it

Answer 4

Question 5

What Genre is this?

• Biblical Texts: Old/New Testament
  
  • Not the Oratorio- Bible story told in a different libretto text
  • This style uses an actual biblical text
• Set for Variety of Instruments/Voices
  
  • Big ensemble subdivided into groups (brackets)
• Concerted Texture
  
  • Shifting textures all the time
• Text in Latin or German or Italian
• Schütz (1585-1672) composed many of these
• Unstaged
  
  • No blocking, set design, or costumes
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Answer 5

Sacred Concerto

Question 6

PAGE 553 Example:

20:36

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Answer 6

Question 7

Who is the composer?

• Wrote many cantatas

Answer 7

Question 8

What Vocal Genre is this?

• Secular in nature
• Setting of Italian love poetry
  
  • Resonates with “Courtly Love” (unattainable love)
• Monodic texture (Solo + Continuo)
  
  • Don’t mix up with the The Caccini Madrigal (one style)
• Mixed Styles: (Compare this to single style of Caccini Madrigal)
  
  • Strophic arias, recitative, dance-like songs
• Example: Barbara Strozzi, Lagrime mie
  
  • Love poem from male perspective
  • Musical mimesis: “sobbing” suspensions
  • “Second Practice” Dissonance: “Dolore”
  • Styles: Lamento, Arioso, Strophic Aria

Answer 8

Cantata

Question 9

PAGE 496

EXAMPLE:

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Question 10

Reading: Music in Roman Churches

• Describe the music heard in Roman Churches
• What were the churches like?
• What genres of music were performed?
• What did the music sound like?

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