St. Mary's College
Moraga, CA
Music and the Enlightenment (Performing Arts 119)
Spring 2009
Dr. Mark Alburger
Overview
Course Information
Unit Credit:
1/2 Course
Prerequisites:
Previous experience in music.
Location:
Syufy 110
Meeting Times:
MW 10:20-11:20am
Withdrawal:
It is the student's responsibility to notify the records office of a formal withdrawal.
Communication
Office:
Syufy 110
Telephone:
(707) 451-0714 (21ST-CENTURY MUSIC)
(707) 474-7273 (Cell)
Email:
mus21stc@gmail.com
Websites:
markalburger2009.blogspot.com
markalburger.blogspot.com
markalburgerevents.blogspot.com
markalburgerworks.blogspot.com
markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com
21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com
21st-centurymusic.com
myspace.com/markalburger
goathall.org
sfcco.org
Office Hours:
MW 11:20
Texts
Online:
markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com
(Late Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical chapters)
Print:
Piero Weiss and Richard Taruskin
Music in the Western World: A History in Documents
Schirmer Books, 1984
Optional:
Selected Late Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical scores
Materials
No. 2 pencils
Computer access
Course Description
This is a course on the music of the Baroque and Classical eras, with particular (though not exclusive) focus on the Western Europe Enlightenment and forces of the time including Absolutism, Capitalism, and Protestantism.
Objectives
1. Analyze Baroque and Classical musical examples from the perspectives of key/mode, form, harmony, rhythm, and melody.
2. Demonstrate a knowledge of the historical development of genres in music from 1500-1825, plus a familiarity with various stylistic antecedents and descendants.
Grading and Evaluation (point scale)
Daily attendance/participation (c. 1200)
Weekly written quizzes (c. 1200)
Concert reviews (c. 200)
Score Legend
90-100% / A
80-89% / B
70-79% / C
60-69% / D
0-59% / F
Concert Attendance
Students are required to attend two concerts per semester. At least one should be by the St. Mary's performing arts department and (not necessarily the same report) primarily of Western Classical music (band, chamber, choral, opera, orchestral). Reviews of each event will identify the concert (who, what, when, and where), and comment on salient elements. The first review will be due by mid-term; the second by the week before the final.
Late Assignments
There will be a 10% grade penalty on all assignments up to a week late. Assignments more than one week late will receive a failing grade. Only quizzes missed due to excused absences may be made up. Such quizzes must be made up within one week or receive a failing grade.
Attendance Policy
Students are expected to attend all class meetings. Required texts only supplement class meetings. Thus, attendance to all class meetings is essential to the successful completion of the course. Poor attendance has always resulted in a poor grade, while excellent attendance has always been a prerequisite to an excellent grade. Students who miss more than two weeks of class may be dropped without notice. Students who need to take a leave of absence during the term should ask a counselor for a petition and then receive written approval from the Instructor and the Dean of Students. Leaves of absence are limited to ten instructional days.
Academic Dishonesty
Students found cheating or plagiarizing will be subject to penalty.
Artistic Borrowing
Students found borrowing, gridding, modeling, or troping will be congratulated. Please refer to the history of art, the universe, and everything.
Syllabus
Part I - Late Renaissance Music (c. 1500-1600)
Week 1 - The Reformation
8483 Martin Luther (1483-1546) - Reformation Chorale
8485 Hugh Aston (c. 1485-1558) -Lady Carey's Dompe
8490 Costanzo Festa (1490-1545) - Sackbut
8491 Henry VIII (1491-1547) - Pastime
8492 Spain - Muslim Expulsion (1492) - Good Friday
8495 Hans Sachs (1495-1576) -Mastersinger
8495 Claudin de Sermsy (c. 1495-1562) - Consort
8500 Guillaume le Heurteur (c. 1500-1550) - Kortholt
8500 Luis de Milan (c. 1500-1561) - Vihuela
8500 Tielman Susato (c. 1500-1561) - Dulcian
8504 Funj Sultanate, Sudan (c. 1504) - North & South
8505 Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585)
Week 2 - The Counter-Reformation
8507 Anne Boleyn (c. 1507-1535)- O Death
8510 Louis (Loys) Bourgeois (b c. 1510 -1560)
8510 Andrea Gabrieli (c. 1510-1586) - Ricercar
8510 Claude Gervaise (c. 1510-1560) - Danceries
8517 Gioseffo Zarlino (1517-1590) - Music Theory
8519 Thoinot Arbeau (1519-1595) - Orchesographie
8525 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)
8532 Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594) - Lieder
8535 Giorgio Mainerio (1535-1582) - Old and New
8540 Ireland - Dublin Virginal Composer (b. c. 1540)
8543 William Byrd (1543-1623)
Week 3 - The Florentine Camerata and Company
8545 Pedro de Soto (b. c. 1545) - Renaissance Organ
8548 La Paz, Bolivia (1548), and the Aymara
8551 Giulio Caccini (1551-1618) - Florentine Camerata
8553 Giovanni Gabrieli (1553-1612)
8554 Anthony Holborne (c. 1554-1602)
8556 Pierre-Francisque Caroubel (1556-1611)
8557 Thomas Morley (1557-1603) - Madrigals
8560 Samuel Voelckel (1560-1618) - Courante
8561 Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) - Opera
8563 John Dowland (1563-1626)
8566 Carlo Gesualdo (c. 1566-c. 1613)
Part II - Baroque Music (c. 1600-1750)
Week 4 - Monteverdi, Opera, Vespers, Magnificat
8567 Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
8570 John Farmer (1570-1601) - Fair Phyllis
8570 William Kemp (b. c. 1570) - Kemp's Gig (c. 1595)
8571 Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
8572 Okuni (b. c. 1572) - Kabuki (1603) - Shamisen
8576 Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623) - Madrigals
8578 Agostino Agazzari (1578-1640) - Figured Bass
8582 Thomas Ravenscroft (1582-1635) - Blind Mice
8582 Marco da Gagliano (1582-1643) - Dafne
8583 Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) - Serpent
8583 Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) - The Silver Swan
Week 5 - Schutz, Enlightenment, Absolutism
8585 Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672) - Saul
8586 Johann Schein (1586-1630) - Crumhorn
8596 Rene Descartes (1596-1650) - Enlightenment
8619 Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) - Beglia Occhi
8620 English (b. c. 1620) - Greensleeves to a Ground
8632 Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) - Absolutism
8637 Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
8644 Heinrich Biber (1644-1704) - Trombone Sonata
8650 Protestantism in Nigeria (c. 1650)
Week 6 - Corelli, Sonata, Purcell, Cantata
8653 Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) - Trio Sonata
8653 Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) - Canon - Cello
8659 Henry Purcell (1659-1695) - Abdelazar - Dido
8660 Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741) - Gradus
8660 Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) - Cantata
Week 7 - Vernacular and Cultivated
8667 Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667-1752) - Beggars
8668 Francois Couperin (1668-1733) - Musete
8674 Jeremiah Clarke (c. 1674-1707) - Trumpet
8678 Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) - Concerto
8681 Georg Philip Telemann (1681-1767) - Oboe
Week 8 - Theory and Practice in Handel and Bach
8682 Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682-1738) - Rondeau
8683 Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) - Theory
8685 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) - Oratorio
8685 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - Fugue
8685 Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) - Performance
Part III - Classical Music (c. 1750-1825)
Week 9 - A Symphony of Opera Buffa and Performance
8700 G.B. Sammartini (1700-1775) - Symphony
8709 Formation of the Zulu (c. 1709) - Critical Times
8710 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)
8710 Thomas Arne (1710-1778) - Philosophy
8714 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) - Piano
8714 Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) - Reform
Week 10 - A Capital Mass of Haydn and Instruments
8717 Johann Stamitz (1717-1757) - Symphony
8723 Adam Smith (1723-1790) - Capitalism
8731 Founding of Afghanistan (1731)
8732 Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
8746 William Billings (1746-1800)
8750 John Stafford Smith (1750-1837)
Week 11 - Mozart and his Rivals
8750 Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) - Minuet
8752 Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) - Sonatinas
8756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
8760 Rouget de Lisle (1760-1836) - La Marseillaise
8767 Johnson (b. c. 1767) - Polly Put the Kettle On
Week 12 - The World of Beethoven
8770 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
8774 Flamenco (c. 1774) - Flamenco Guitar
8787 Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863)
8792 Lowell Mason (1792-1872)
8792 Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
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