1. MUH 3211 - Music History I Vocal Music, 1600-1650
12/4/2018
Chapter Eight
Vocal Music,
DAY 28 (8 Nov 17)

2. Sacred Music (early 17th C)
Prima prattica (old) - Palestrina & Zarlino - remains in use
Seconda prattica (new) - Monteverdi, et al.
Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610)
Mixed settings of sacred texts
Giovanni Gabrieli ( ), organist
St. Mark’s (San Marco)
“In Ecclesiis” (1590s?)
Polychoral settings - multiple groups - physically separated
Canzon Primi Toni (1612)
Sonata pian e forte

3. San Marco (Venice) - interior

4. Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) German student of G. Gabrieli (1609-1612)
Kapellmeister in Dresden ( )
Chiefly Sacred music in Latin & German
Singet dem Herren ein neues Lied (Anth I/79)
Saul, was verfolgst du mich? (Anth I/80)

5. MUH 3211 - Music History I Vocal Music, 1650-1750
12/4/2018
Chapter Nine
Vocal Music,
DAY 28 (8 Nov 17)

6. Jean-Baptiste Lully by Paul Mignard (1639-91)
Opera in France
Controlled by King
Emphasis on dance
Tragédie en musique - Philippe Quinault (poet) - J.-B. Lully (composer)
Anth I/81 – Armide (1686)
Overture (the King’s “24”) - “overdotting”
Act II/ sc. 5 (Renaud asleep, Armide approaches)
Jean-Baptiste Lully by Paul Mignard ( )

7. Opera seria (Just what it says) “Serious Opera” - Tragic content
MUH Music History I
12/4/2018
(Just what it says) “Serious Opera” - Tragic content
Plots often based on Classical Antiquity
vs. opera buffa (“comic opera”) [later]
Italy (and beyond) 1680s to late 1700s - most opera seria sung in Italian
Action (Recitative) – Reflection (Aria)
Development of standard poetic forms
Pietro Metastasio ( ) & others - librettist whose text were set over 700 times
DAY 28 (8 Nov 17)

8. Da Capo Aria Two parts (A – B) - contrasting emotions - “Ma” (…“but”…)
Performed w/ da Capo = A – B – A’
Ornamented return
Cadenza
Instrumental ritornello
G. F. Handel ( )
Giulio Cesare in Egitto - London (1724)
Act I, Scene 5 (Anth I/82) - Recitative (action) “Regni Cleopatra…”
- Aria (reflection) “Non disperar…” Kathleen Battle (w/ ornamented da capo)

9. Castrato Male soprano (contralto)
Surgically altered before puberty (!)
Heroic leads in opera seria
18th C “rock stars”
Farinelli, Senesino, et al.
“L’empio sleale, indegno” - Giulio Cesare, Act I, sc. 6 - Derek Ragin, countertenor
BBC Documentary: Castrato (6 parts)
“Senesino” (Francesco Bernardi, ) Cesar in Handel’s Giulio Cesare