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Soprano recitative There Were Shepherds tempo

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not indicated

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Overture Section A affection

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majestic, mysterious, welcoming

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La Primavera 2nd mvt form

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two-part structure

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Vivaldi sacred work-oratorio ex.

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Juditha Triumphans

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Soprano recitative And lo! The angel if The Lord image

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fluttering wings depicted by ascending broken arpeggio 16th notes

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Soprano recitative And the angel said unto them key

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begins in D major

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La Primavera title of first four

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La Quattro Stagioni

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Prelude and Fugue in b flat Major structure

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  • two books
  • each book 24 preludes and fugues, organized in pairs if tonic major and minor keys
  • begins with c major and c minor, then moves up chromatically ending with B major and b minor
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La Primavera source

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  • (program) sonnets most likely err item by Vivdi, describing the seasons of the year
  • portions of the text were printed above the corresponding passages in the origin score
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Soprano recitative And suddenly key

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begins job d major

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Soprano recitative There Were Shepherds key

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c major

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Prelude and Fugue in b flat Major #background

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7

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Soprano recitative And suddenly time signature

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common time

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La Primavera 2nd mvt time signature

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3/4

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La Primavera 2nd mvt orchestration

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reduced (no cello or continuo)

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La Primavera #background

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Soprano recitative And the angel said unto them

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  1. type of recitative
  2. key
  3. tempo
  4. time signature
  5. begin
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Soprano recitative #And suddenly

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soprano aria Rejoice Greatly form

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ABA1

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Soprano recitative And the angel said unto them type of recitative

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recitativo secco

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Messiah structure

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  • three parts-each contain multiple movements
  • part 1-the prophecy of the coming if Christ and his birth
  • part 1-Christ’s suffering, death, and the spread of his doctrine
  • part 3-the redemption if the world through faith
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La Primavera performing forces

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solo violin, strings, continuo

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Soprano recitative And suddenly

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  1. type of recitative
  2. key
  3. tempo
  4. time signature
  5. begin
  6. image
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Soprano recitative There Were Shepherds type of recitative

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recitativo secco

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La Primavera 3rd mvt poetic image
nymphs and shepherd dance gaily to the festive sound of rustic bagpipes as they welcome spring
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Soprano recitative And lo! The angel if The Lord type of recitative
recitativo accompagnato
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La Primavera genre
solo violin concerto
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Prelude in b flat Major
1. key 2. tempo 3. time signature 4. texture 5. structure 6. section A 7. section B 8. affection 9. technical
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chorus Glory to God begin
"Glory to God, Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth"
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Soprano recitative #And the angel said unto them
5
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Vivaldi sacred work-motet ex.
Gloria
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Soprano recitative There Were Shepherds begun
"There were shepherds abiding in the field"
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La Primavera 2nd mvt poetic image
•the goatherd sleeps in a flowery meadow with his faithful dog beside him. the leaves rustle gently
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Fugue in b flat Major episode 1
* leads to G minor * subject appears in g minor * tonal answer in C minor
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Vivaldi opera ex.
* Orlando furioso | * Griselda
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La Primavera 3rd mvt form
ritornello
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Soprano recitative And suddenly type of recitative
recitativo accompagnato
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Overture #general
5
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chorus Glory to God image
"and peace" and "on earth" are separated by an octave
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Bach keyboard work(s)
* collection for students * two/three-part inventions(known as sinfonias) * toccatas * French/English suites
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Prelude in b flat Major structure
binary (AB) form
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Fugue in b flat Major episode 2
* leads to E flat major * partial (two-measure) entry of the tonal answer in E flat major * complete entry of subject in E flat major
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Prelude in b flat Major time signature
common time
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chorus Glory to God tempo
allegro
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Prelude and Fugue in b flat Major genre
keyboard music-prelude and fugues
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Fugue in b flat Major tonal answer
•presented by middle voice in F major (dominant)
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Soprano recitative And lo! The angel if The Lord key
f major
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soprano aria Rejoice Greatly #section B
3
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soprano aria Rejoice Greatly #general
4
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Fugue in b flat Major technical
playing 2 voices on 1 hand
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La Primavera cause
for Conservatorio Ospedale della Pietà
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Messiah source if text
Biblical prose-Old and New Testaments
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Prelude and Fugue in b flat Major background
1. genre 2. date 3. composer 4. op. no. 5. collection 6. significance of title 7. structure
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Soprano recitative There Were Shepherds time signature
common time
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soprano aria Rejoice Greatly time signature
common time
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soprano aria Rejoice Greatly section A begin
"Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice greatly, I daughter of Zion"
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chorus Hallelujah key
d major
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Soprano recitative And suddenly tempo
not indicated
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Soprano recitative And the angel said unto them tempo
not indicated
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La Primavera 3rd mvt orchestration
ripieno
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La Primavera date
1725
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Soprano recitative #And lo! The angel if The Lord
6
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Overture Section B answer
tonal
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Prelude in b flat Major section A
* broken chord passages played in breathless thirty-second notes and grated sequentially * ends in F major (dominant key) and proceeds to immediately to the next section
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Prelude and Fugue in b flat Major op. no.
No.21
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soprano aria Rejoice Greatly parts
1. general 2. Section A 3. Section B
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#Prelude in b flat Major
9
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La Primavera 3rd mvt time signature
12/8
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Fugue in b flat Major number of voices
3
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Overture general
1. title in original score 2. genre 3. form 4. key 5. time signature
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chorus Hallelujah time signature
common time
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Prelude and Fugue in b flat Major collection
The Well-Tempered Clavier
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chorus Glory to God key
d major
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chorus Hallelujah
1. key 2. tempo 3. time signature 4. "Hallelujah" 5. "and He shall reign"
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La Primavera 1st mvt key
e major
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Soprano recitative And suddenly image
lots of wings fluttering depicted by 16th note interval chords
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La Primavera 2nd mvt key
C sharp minor
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La Primavera 3rd mvt tempo
allegro
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chorus Glory to God time signature
common time
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Prelude in b flat Major tempo
* not indicated | * style implies to be quick in the manner of a toccata
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Overture Section A
1. tempo 2. texture 3. predominant rhythm 4. affection
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Messiah composer
George Frideric Haydn
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soprano aria Rejoice Greatly #section A
3
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Prelude and Fugue in b flat Major composer
Johann Sebastian Bah
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soprano aria Rejoice Greatly section B
1. key 2. begin 3. contrast
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Soprano recitative And the angel said unto them begin
"And the angel said unto them 'Fear not"
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Bach keyboard work-sinfonia ex.
The Well-Tempered Clavier
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soprano aria Rejoice Greatly section A image
"rejoice" sung in fast melismatic cheery 16th notes depicting delight
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Soprano recitative #There Were Shepherds
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Vivaldi sacred work(s)
* oratorios | * motets
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Soprano recitative parts
1. There Were Shepherds 2. And lo! The angel of The Lord 3. And the angel said unto them 4. And suddenly
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Prelude in b flat Major section B
* continue the toccatas-like style with the use of rapid cadenza-like runs that emerge from arpeggios red seventh chord * virtuosity is highlighted throughout * the improvisatory style, contrast to the controlled order in the fugue that follows
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soprano aria Rejoice Greatly section B contrast
slower, modulation, major-minor
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Overture Section B affection
excitement, celebratory
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soprano aria Rejoice Greatly tempo
allegro
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chorus Glory to God
1. key 2. tempo 3. time signature 4. begin 5. image
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La Primavera 1st mvt verse 1
* poetic image; the birds celebrate with festive song | * depicted by high pitched trills, repeated-note figures
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Overture Section B
1. tempo 2. texture 3. number of voices 4. subject introduced by 5. answer 6. affection
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Fugue in b flat Major affection
calmed down from excitement
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Overture #Section A
4
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Prelude in b flat Major texture
homophonic and polyphonic
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chorus Hallelujah "and He shall reign"
* imitative polyphony * contrast by quarter notes instead of 8th notes (longer value), texture change * climax crested by trumpets, timpani, and longer sustained notes
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Overture key
E minor
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chorus #Hallelujah
5
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Messiah parts
1. Overture 2. There Were Shepherds (soprano recitative) 3. Glory to God (chorus) 4. Rejoice Greatly (soprano aria) 5. Hallelujah
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Messiah Overture parts
1. general 2. Section A 3. section B
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Soprano recitative And lo! The angel if The Lord tempo
andante
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Messiah genre
oratorio
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soprano aria Rejoice Greatly key
B-flat major
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Prelude and Fugue in b flat Major significance of tie
* "Well-Tempered" refers to newly invented tuning system did keyboard instruments * "Clavier" is German word for key board instruments other than organ * allows for pieces to be written in any key
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Overture Section B number of voices
3
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Overture time signature
common time
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soprano aria Rejoice Greatly section B key
g minor
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soprano aria Rejoice Greatly general
1. key 2. tempo 3. time signature 4. form
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Overture title in original score
Sinfony
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Bach chamber music(s)
* six unaccompanied suites for cello * six unaccompanied a katas and partitas for violin * sonata for flute, viola da gamba, violin, and harpsichord
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Bach keyboard work-collection for students ex.
Notebook for Anna Magdalena/Wilhelm Friedemann
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La Primavera background
1. genre 2. date 3. composer 4. op. no. 5. subtitle of collection 6. subtitle of first 4 7. source 8. cause 9. performing forces
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chorus Hallelujah tempo
allegro
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soprano aria Rejoice Greatly section B begin
"He is the righteous Saviour, and he shall speak peace unto the heathen."
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Soprano recitative And lo! The angel if The Lord
1. type if recitative 2. key 3. tempo 4. time signature 5. begin 6. image
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Bach vocal work(s)
* cantatas | * passions
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soprano aria Rejoice Greatly section A word painting
"shout" was loud and sung on a single note
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soprano aria Rejoice Greatly section A
1. begin 2. image 3. word painting
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La Primavera composer
Antonio Vivaldi
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chorus Hallelujah "Hallelujah"
homorhythmic, blocked chordal texture
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Overture #Section B
6
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La Primavera 1st mvt
1. key 2. tempo 3. time signature 4. form 5. orchestration 6. ritornello theme 7. verse 1 8. verse 2 9. verse 3
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Fugue in b flat Major time signature
3/4
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Overture Section A texture
* homophonic | * homorhythmic
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Fugue in b flat Major fugal exposition
* subject in tonic presented by too voice and is unusually long) * compromised if two motives, first is mostly distinct, second is conjunct * outlines tonic-dominant seventh harmony
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Soprano recitative And lo! The angel if The Lord begin
"And lo! The angel of The Lord came upon to them"
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Messiah cause
for a benefit concert in Dunlin, Ireland
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Handel opera ex.
* Rinaldo * Giulio Cesare * Serses * Orlando
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Prelude in b flat Major affection
cheerful, joyful, lively, happy, alive
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Soprano recitative And lo! The angel if The Lord time signature
common time
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La Primavera 1st mvt orchestration
ripieno
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Soprano recitative And the angel said unto them time signature
common time
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Soprano recitative And suddenly begin
"And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude if the heav'nly host"
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Prelude in b flat Major technical
fast finger work while correct notation
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Overture Section A tempo
grave
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La Primavera 2nd mvt tempo
largo
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Overture Section B subject introduced by
1st violins and oboes
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Overture Section A predominant rhythm
dotted figure
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Bach orchestral work ex.
six "Brandenburg concertos"
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chorus #Glory to God
5
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Overture form
A (repeated) B
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Handel oratorio ex.
* Messiah * Judas Maccabeus * Isreal in Egypt
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Overture Section B tempo
allegro moderato
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Fugue in b flat Major texture
polyphonic
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Messiah librettist
Charles Jennens
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Overture Section B texture
polyphonic (fugal)
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Soprano recitative There Were Shepherds
1. type of recitative 2. key 3. tempo 4. time signature 5. begin
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Messiah date
1742, composed the previous summer in just twenty-four days
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Overture genre
French Overture
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Fugue in b flat Major tempo
* not indicated on the score | * (moderately) fast
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#Fugue in b flat Major
13
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Messiah language
English
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La Primavera subtitle of collection
il cimento dell'armonia e dell'invenzione (The contrast between harmony and inspiration)
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Fugue in b flat Major
1. key 2. tempo 3. time signature 4. texture 5. number of voices 6. fugal exposition 7. tonal answer 8. countersubject 9. episode 1 10. episode 2 11. final section 12. affection 13. technical
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La Primavera 1st mvt verse 3
* poetic image; murmuring dreams are caressed by gentle breezes * depicted by violins playing a rapid, undulating figure
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Bach #French/English suites
6
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Messiah background
1. genre 2. date 3. composer 4. cause 5. source of text 6. librettist 7. language 8. structure 9. performing forces
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Handel keyboard work(s)
for organ and harpsichord
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Bach orchestral work(s)
* four orchestral suites * violin concertos * harpsichord concertos
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Fugue in b flat Major countersubject
* countersubject 2 in top voice | * subject in bass voice
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Fugue in b flat Major key
B-flat major
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Handel sacred vocal work ex.
* Ode for Saint Cecilia | * Te Deum
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Messiah performing forces
* SATB soloists | * SATB chorus and string orchestra with continuo, oboes, bassoons, trumpets, and timpani
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Bach #vocal work-cantata
approximately 200
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Prelude in b flat Major key
B-flat major
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Messiah #background
9
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Bach vocal work-passion ex.
* St. Matthew/John Passion | * mass in b minor
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La Primavera 1st mvt tempo
allegro
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Handel orchestral work(s)
* Suites * Concerti grosso * organ concertos
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Handel orchestral work-suite ex.
* Water music | * Music for the Royal Fireworks
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Handel chamber music(s)
trio sonatas
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La Primavera op. no.
op.7, no.1
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La Primavera 1st mvt time signature
common time
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Bach keyboard work-French/English suites ex.
* Italian concerto | * Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue
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La Primavera 3rd mvt key
e major
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Prelude and Fugue in b flat Major date
* book 1-1722 | * book 2-1742
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La Primavera 1st mvt form
ritornello form
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La Primavera 3rd mvt
1. key 2. tempo 3. time signature 4. form 5. orchestration 6. poetic image 7. depiction
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La Primavera 2nd mvt
1. key 2. tempo 3. time signature 4. form 5. orchestration 6. poetic image 7. depiction
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Bach organ work(s)
* chorale preludes * toccatas * passacaglias * fugues
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La Primavera #3rd mvt
7
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La Primavera 3rd mvt depiction
* the bass note (drones of bagpipe) | * lilting compound meter (dance-like character)
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La Primavera 2nd mvt depiction
* the solo violin's languorous melody (sleeping goatherd) * the violin's dotted-note figure in parallel thirds (rustling leaves) * the viola ostinato (barking dog)
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La Primavera 1st mvt ritornello theme
* played by violins * poetic image; spring has arrived * depicted by spirited rhythmic figures, bright character, celebratory dance-like quality
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La Primavera 1st mvt verse 3
* poetic image; storm clouds darken the sky, bringing thunder and lightning * depicted by remands passages played by violins (thunder), riding thirty-second note scales (lightening) * technical challenges; fast arms at the the same angle
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La Primavera #2nd mvt
7
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La Primavera #1st mvt
9
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Vivaldi #concerto
over 400
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Vivaldi concerto(s)
* concerto gross, solo concerto * mostly for violin * bassoon, oboe, flute, viola, cello, mandolin
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Vivaldi #opera
over 40

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