Baroque Music 632 Syllabus

                                            MUS 632 - BAROQUE MUSIC

Evaluation procedures

1.   Examinations - two exams (a mid-term and a "non-cumulative"

      final) on assigned readings, assigned listening, and lectures.

 2.   Optional (if you wish a third grade to be averaged with the exam grades):  

       Write a term paper giving a scholarly presentation of 10-15 pages

       in length to be submitted during the final week of classes.  When

       appropriate, use musical examples, illustrations, diagrams, or tables

       to amplify text.  All examples should be appropriately labeled and           

       referred to in the text by number.  The paper should be typed

       (with footnotes and bibliography) in a format suggested by MUS

       601 or by guidelines spelled out in Kate Turabian, A Manual for

       Writers . . . (5th edition).

Lectures,  Listening and Reading Assignments

        The scheduled topics for each class meeting are listed below along with

        assigned readings.  In addition,  recordings, scores, and videos will be posted 
        on the internet for which you will also be responsible.  These may be accessed at:

        www.musichistorybaroque.blogspot.com

date      lecture topic                                    readings and listening

  

8/31      Introduction to the Baroque             Lecture

               

 9/7        A backward glance at                     Materials passed out in class

              the Renaissance     

9/14       An overview of Baroque                Palisca 1-29

              music, monodic style

9/21       The rise of opera, the                       Palisca 30-57          

              recitative style, and the

              late continuo madrigal

9/28        Lute and keyboard music                Palisca 82-98

               of the late renaissance and        

               early Baroque

10/5         The colossal Baroque and               Palisca 66-81; 100-113

                the sacred concerto in    

                Germany; political and

                 social background of theBaroque;

                the "age of absolutism"

10/12       Opera in mid-century Italy,              Palisca 221-231, 249-252;

                France, and England                        Palisca 114-124

                The Italian Secular Cantata

       

10/19      Midterm examination

10/26      Neapolitan opera                                Palisca 237-246. 252-261;

               (Scarlatti and G. F. Handel)   

11/2        Lute and harpsichord music                Palisca 177-196

               in France

11/9       The rise of the violin with                    Palisca 145-163

               the trio and solo sonata  

11/16      The concerto grosso and                     Palisca 163-175, 197-220;

               solo concerto; organ and 

               clavier music in Germany

11/23        J. S. Bach                                           Palisca 318-336

11/30         J. S. Bach and G.F. Handel

       

12/7          To be announced

12/14         Final examination