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MUSIC HIST TO 1750 (MUSI-3347-02) 2018FA > CLASS: Nov 30, 2018 -- COMPLETE > Flashcards

CLASS: Nov 30, 2018 -- COMPLETE Flashcards

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Both of these composers are ______ of each other

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Both of these composers are contemporaries of each other

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Bach:

  • Didn’t ______ much.
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Bach:

  • Didn’t travel much.
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Bach:

  • Associate with
    • ____ music
    • _____ music
    • _____ music
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Bach:

  • Associate with
    • church music
    • sacred music
    • keyboard music
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Handel

  • ______ widely
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Handel

  • Traveled widely
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Handel

  • _______ cities
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Handel

  • Cosmopolitan cities
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Handel

  • Composed much
    • _____ music
    • _____ music
    • _____ music
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Handel

  • Composed much
    • opera music
    • oratory music
    • dramatic music
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • CAREER:
    • _______ made Bach famous
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • CAREER:
    • Mendelson made Bach famous
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • CAREER:
    • City associated with church music: ______
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • CAREER:
    • City associated with church music: Leipzig
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • CAREER:
    • City associated with court music: _____
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • CAREER:
    • City associated with court music: Weimar
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • CAREER:
    • Directed _____ boys. Made sure they were fed and dressed
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • CAREER:
    • Directed choir boys. Made sure they were fed and dressed
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • CAREER:
    • Wrote one _____ a week, church music
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • CAREER:
    • Wrote one cantata a week, church music
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • STYLE:
    • Lots of _____ at once
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • STYLE:
    • Lots of melodies at once
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • STYLE:
    • Dense _____
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • STYLE:
    • Dense melodies
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • STYLE:
    • Bach’s counterpoint is different than Josquin’s because it has a _____ destination
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • STYLE:
    • Bach’s counterpoint is different than Josquin’s because it has a tonal destination
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • STYLE:
    • Slow ______ rhythm (not lots of Roman numerals, uses Fortspinnung to spin out towards a cadence.)
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • STYLE:
    • Slow harmonic rhythm (not lots of Roman numerals, uses Fortspinnung to spin out towards a cadence.)
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • STYLE:​​​​
    • ______ sounding cadences
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • STYLE:
    • tonal sounding cadences
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • STYLE:
    • ________ means spinning out of a melodic idea. “Noodling”
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • STYLE:
    • Fortspinnung means spinning out of a melodic idea. “Noodling”
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • STYLE:​​​​
    • When Bach was writing counterpoint, it was considered ______. Handel was writing the more trendy music.
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • STYLE:​​​​
    • When Bach was writing counterpoint, it was considered old-fashioned. Handel was writing the more trendy music.
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • STYLE:
    • Organized mess: like a protein in science. Totally _____ looking but total organization within the chaos.
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Describe Bach’s Career:

  • STYLE:​​​
    • Organized mess: like a protein in science. Totally chaotic looking but total organization within the chaos.
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Bach:

  • He was known for a wide variety of genres.
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Bach:

  • He was known for a wide variety of genres.
    • Preludes and Fugue
      • Well-tempered Clavier
    • Chorale Prelude
      • Orgelbüchlein, organ setting of the hymn tune
    • Concertos
    • Contatas
    • Passions
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Bach:

  • What is significant about the Well-Tempered Clavier?
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Bach:

  • What is significant about the Well-Tempered Clavier?
    • Composed in every chromatic key
    • This is significant because of Equal Temperament Tuning. Not possible before this.
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • Composed in _____
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • Composed in Leipzig
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • Performed during ______ services between Gospel and Sermon
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • Performed during church services between Gospel and Sermon
    • All the readings are done and the cantata prepares them for listening of the sermon
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • ______ composed
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • Freely composed
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • No _____
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • No story
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • On a _____ (Birth of Jesus, Christmas)
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • On a theme (Birth of Jesus, Christmas)
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • Non-______ but still performed as part of church services.
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • Non-Liturgical but still performed as part of church services.
    • Was acceptable because Bach was in the Lutheran church, they were all about music. As long as it aligned with the topic and was sacred.
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • How is it like the Italian Cantata:
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • How is it like the Italian Cantata:​
    • Arias and Recitatives
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • Who do we associate with the Italian Cantata:
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • Who do we associate with the Italian Cantata:
    • Barbara Strozzi
    • Alessandro Scarlatti
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • How is it unlike the Italian Cantata:
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • How is it unlike the Italian Cantata:
    • Sacred
    • German text
    • Chorales, simple 4-part
    • Choral Movements,
      • Integrates hymn tunes
      • Very decorated and ornamented
      • Didn’t exist in Italian Cantata
        • Italian: Monody = solo voice + basso continuo
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • Bach includes _______ recitative
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • Bach includes accompanied recitative
    • Up to this point, recitative was only accompanied with basso continuo
    • Bach throws extra violins in there
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • If you hear a recitative-like vocal style, plus a small instrumental ensemble, you know you’re looking at ____ or ____ because they were the only ones who did that.
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • If you hear a recitative-like vocal style, plus a small instrumental ensemble, you know you’re looking at Bach or Handel because they were the only ones who did that.
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • Only two composers who wrote in German in the Baroque period.
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Bach, Cantata: Nun komm**, der Heiden Heiland

  • Only two composers who wrote in German in the Baroque period.
    • JS Bach
    • Heinrich Schütz
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Bach

  • They didn’t have a ton of ______ time
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Bach

  • They didn’t have a ton of rehearsal time
    • Resulted in sight reading parts
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Bach

  • Lower performance ______ than today
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Bach

  • Lower performance standards than today
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Bach

  • They were performing this music every ____
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Bach

  • They were performing this music every week
    • By singing this type of music every week they probably got used to it
    • It is difficult but there is logic to it, stepwise motion, etc
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Bach, St. Matthew Passion

  • Special Type of Oratorio (unstaged)
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Bach, St. Matthew Passion

  • Text from first _____ book (Life of Jesus)
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Bach, St. Matthew Passion

  • Text from first Gospel book (Life of Jesus)
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Bach, St. Matthew Passion

  • Narrator/Historicus = _______
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Bach, St. Matthew Passion

  • Narrator/Historicus = Evangelist (character)
    • Difficult as a performer, multiple parts
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Bach, St. Matthew Passion

  • Other ______ for important characters:
A

Bach, St. Matthew Passion

  • Other Soloists for important characters:
    • Pontius Pilate
    • Jesus, Peter
    • “Maiden”
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Bach, St. Matthew Passion

  • ________: telling the story
A

Bach, St. Matthew Passion

  • Recitative: telling the story
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Bach, St. Matthew Passion

  • _____: personal reflection
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Bach, St. Matthew Passion

  • Aria: personal reflection
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Bach, St. Matthew Passion

  • ______: Reflecting on the situation
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Bach, St. Matthew Passion

  • Chorus: Reflecting on the situation
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Handel’s Cosmopolitan Career

  • Born in ____
A

Handel’s Cosmopolitan Career

  • Born in Halle
45
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Handel’s Cosmopolitan Career

  • Wide exposure to multiple ______
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Handel’s Cosmopolitan Career

  • Wide exposure to multiple genres
    • He sees a lot of Italian Opera
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Handel’s Cosmopolitan Career

  • Traveled throughout Italy
    • ______ (center of Monody, Caccini was working)
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Handel’s Cosmopolitan Career

  • Traveled throughout Italy
    • Florence (center of Monody, Caccini was working)
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Handel’s Cosmopolitan Career

  • Traveled throughout Italy
    • _____ (Oratorios of Carissimi)
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Handel’s Cosmopolitan Career

  • Traveled throughout Italy
    • Rome (Oratorios of Carissimi)
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Handel’s Cosmopolitan Career

  • Traveled throughout Italy
    • _____ (Opera Seria of Scarlatti, instrumentalist)
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Handel’s Cosmopolitan Career

  • Traveled throughout Italy
    • Naples (Opera Seria of Scarlatti, instrumentalist)
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Handel’s Cosmopolitan Career

  • Traveled throughout Italy
    • _____ (Comic Opera)
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Handel’s Cosmopolitan Career

  • Traveled throughout Italy
    • Venice (Comic Opera)
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Handel’s Cosmopolitan Career

  • Traveled throughout Italy
    • _____ (Lands a gig)
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Handel’s Cosmopolitan Career

  • Traveled throughout Italy
    • Hanover (Lands a gig)
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Handel’s Cosmopolitan Career

  • 1710: Landed gig as music director for the ______ of Hanover -> King George I of England
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Handel’s Cosmopolitan Career

  • 1710: Landed gig as music director for the Elector of Hanover -> King George I of England
    • Where he gets discovered by an impresario, asked to come to England to direct and premier a series of works in London.
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Handel’s Cosmopolitan Career

  • Cosmopolitan, big cities. Would be like going to _____, ____, ____, ____
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Handel’s Cosmopolitan Career

  • Cosmopolitan, big cities. Would be like going to Chicago, New York, LA, Boston etc.
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Handel’s Oratorio: Saul (1738)

Handel’s style looks forward to the Classical style

A
54
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Bach’s style looks bach to Counterpoint of the Renaissance

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Handel’s Oratorio: Saul (1738)

  • Confusing with Saul by Heinrich Schütz, sacred concerto.
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Handel’s Oratorio: Saul (1738)

  • Confusing with Saul by Heinrich Schütz, sacred concerto.
    • Different Saul’s. (Old Testament Saul- Handel & New testament saul - Schütz)
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Handel’s Oratorio: Saul (1738)

  • Like the earlier Oratorio:
    • Oratorio: sacred ______ drama
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Handel’s Oratorio: Saul (1738)

  • Like the earlier Oratorio:
    • Oratorio: sacred unstaged drama
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Handel’s Oratorio: Saul (1738)

  • Like the earlier Oratorio:
    • Often performed during ____
A

Handel’s Oratorio: Saul (1738)

  • Like the earlier Oratorio:
    • Often performed during Lent
      • When opera houses were shut down
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Handel’s Oratorio: Saul (1738)

  • Like the earlier Oratorio:
    • Old Testament ____ (1 and 2 Samuel)
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Handel’s Oratorio: Saul (1738)

  • Like the earlier Oratorio:
    • Old Testament Story (1 and 2 Samuel)
      • Old Testament Saul
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Q

Handel wrote many Oratorios, most famous being _______

A

Handel wrote many Oratorios, most famous being The Messiah

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Oratorio is different from the Cantata in that the Oratorio is _____

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Oratorio is different from the Cantata in that the Oratorio is dramatic

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Handel’s Oratorio: Saul (1738)

  • Unlike the earlier Oratorio:
    • Direct allusion to ______: No narrator
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Handel’s Oratorio: Saul (1738)

  • Unlike the earlier Oratorio:
    • Direct allusion to drama: No narrator
      • Characters are just talking to each other
      • Mimic throwing a Javelin
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Handel’s Oratorio: Saul (1738)

  • Unlike the earlier Oratorio:
    • _______ exchange of recit/aria
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Handel’s Oratorio: Saul (1738)

  • Unlike the earlier Oratorio:
    • Formulaic exchange of recit/aria
      • Accompanied recit, regular recit, multiple things going on, but when you look at the larger picture it’s much more formulaic in the way it’s pieced together
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Handel’s Oratorio: Saul (1738)

  • Unlike the earlier Oratorio:
    • Mass ______ representing the “people of Israel”
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Handel’s Oratorio: Saul (1738)

  • Unlike the earlier Oratorio:
    • Mass choruses representing the “people of Israel”
      • Play to the role of population
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Handel’s Oratorio: Saul (1738)

  • Unlike the earlier Oratorio:
    • Large scale ______ accompaniment
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Handel’s Oratorio: Saul (1738)

  • Unlike the earlier Oratorio:
    • Large scale instrumental accompaniment
      • Remember back to the first oratorio we looked at, Carissimi Jephte, we saw a single singer on stage singing an aria, only thing accompanying her was a continuo group
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Handel’s Oratorio: Saul (1738)

  • City associated with early Oratorio: ____
A

Handel’s Oratorio: Saul (1738)

  • City associated with early Oratorio: Rome
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Handel’s Oratorio: Saul (1738)

  • Most texts for Oratorio are in _____
A

Handel’s Oratorio: Saul (1738)

  • Most texts for Oratorio are in English

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