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J.S. Bach Prelude and Fugue (no. 114)

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Year: 1722

Genre: Prelude and fugue

Musical characteristics:

  • Includes a toccata-like cadenza.
  • Subject and two countersubjects

Context:

  • Originally written for his son as an etude
  • Binary-like form
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J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto (no. 115)

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Year: 1721

Genre: Concerto

Musical Characteristics:

  • Nine ritornello sections
  • Split into three sections with cadenza

Context:

  • Technical harpsichord cadenza
  • Features virtuosity in performance
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J.S. Bach “ruft uns die stimme” movement 1 (no. 116a)

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Year: 1731

Genre: Cantata

Musical characteristics:

  • Chorale Fantasia
  • For spiritual reflection and aestically pleasing

Context:

  • For St. Thomas Church
  • Tells a story of a bride and groom
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J.S. Bach “ruft uns die stimme” movements 3 and 4 (no. 116c,d)

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Year: 1731

Genre: Cantata

Musical characteristics:

  • Da capo aria
  • Heavy contrast and clear melody

Context:

  • Uses violino piccolo
  • d: Arranged for organ
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J.S. Bach B minor mass Crucifixus (no. 117)

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Year: 1749

Genre: Mass

Musical characteristics:

- Chromatically descending ground bass

- Descending minor seconds and tritones

Context:

  • Performed in Frankfurt
  • Expresses grief and suffering
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John Gay “The Beggar’s Opera” (no. 119a-d)

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Year: 1728

Genre: Ballad Opera

Musical characteristics:

  • Contains spoken dialogue
  • In english and contains simple melodies

Context:

  • Extremely popular among public
  • About a man who tries to balance a wife and a mistress
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Pergolesi La serva Padrona (no. 120a,b)

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Year: 1733

Genre: Opera Buffa

Musical characteristics:

  • contains continuo underneath solo singers

- Spoken dialogue, solos and duets

Context:

  • Originally written as an intermezzo
  • Soprano and bass lead parts
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Rousseau “Le Devin du village (no. 121)

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Year: 1752

Genre: Opera Comique

Musical characteristics:

  • Contains a direct and spontaneous melody
  • Duet is mostly in unison to create a unified effect

Context:

  • originally an intermede
  • Rousseau believed in an emphasis on melody as opposed to harmony
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Gluck Orfeo Aria and chorus (no. 122a,b)

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Year: 1762

Genre: Italian libretto

Musical Characteristics:

  • Contains recitative and aria
  • For two orchestras, chorus and solo singers
  • Dramatic piece

Context:

  • Lead role is castrato
  • Similar to opera seria traditions
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Gluck Orfeo Obbligato and Aria (no. 122c,d)

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Year: 1762

Genre: Italian libretto

Musical characteristics:

  • Dramatic and driving rhythms
  • Solo singers with two orchestras

Context:

  • Today male lead is played by a women
  • Uses castrato male lead
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Stamitz Symphony in E flat major (no. 124)

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Year: 1755

Genre: Symphony

Musical characteristics:

  • Uses Mannheim style
  • Energetic rhythms

Context:

  • Stamitz was both a conductor and virtuosic violinist
  • In a sonata-like form
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Carl Bach Fantasia (no. 126)

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Year: 1753

Genre: Fantasia

Musical characteristics:

  • Wandering and unpredictable nature
  • Contrasting melod gestures and phrase lengths

Context:

  • Meant for creativity of the performer
  • Uses Bebung vibrato for clavichord
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J.C. Bach Piano Sonata (no. 127)

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Year: 1766

Genre: Piano Sonata

Musical characteristics:

  • In galant style
  • Contrasting second theme

Context:

  • He was a student of C.P.E. Bach
  • Clear cut sections and defined thematic functions
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Haydn Symphony No. 6 (no. 128)

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Year: 1761

Genre: Symphony

Musical characteristics:

  • Progrommatic music of the rising sun
  • Chromatically ascending line played by violins

Context:

  • Written for Esterhazy family in Vienna
  • One of three total symphonies written
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Haydn The “Bird” Quartet (no. 129)

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Year: 1781

Genre: String quartet

Musical characteristics:

  • Motivic development
  • Less contast between instruments, textures and dynamics than his symphonies

Context:

  • Uses musical equality
  • Sounds like a conversation between four instruments
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Haydn Surprise Symphony (no. 130)

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Year: 1791

Genre: Symphony

Musical characteristics:

  • Uses theme and variations form
  • Fortissimo chord

Context:

  • Contains a coda
  • Simple melodic line
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Haydn Symphony No. 99 (no. 131)

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Year: 1794

Genre: Symphony

Musical characteristics:

  • Contrast between solo and orchestra lines
  • Sonata form with exposition and development

Context:

  • Performed in London
  • His goal was novel entertainment
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Haydn The Creation (no. 132)

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Year: 1796

Genre: Oratorio

Musical characteristics:

  • Sung in German
  • Chromatic descending lines in the orchestra

Context:

  • Sacred piece but performed in a concert hall not church
  • Two soprano, one tenor and two bass solo line with chorus and orchestra
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J.S. Bach “In dulci jubilo” (no. 112)

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Year: 1710

Genre: Chorale Prelude

Musical characteristics:

  • Double canon
  • Free polyphony

Context:

  • From book of 46 preludes
  • Organ music