Music 110: Baroque and Classical Music History, Fall 2014
Time: Monday, Wednesday 9:00 am - 10:15 am
Location: Music 160
Description
Music 110 is an exploration and survey of the Baroque and Classical periods with study of styles, composers, works, music theory, performance practices, and cultural and intellectual history of Western art music. Students will apply research and library skills through written assignments, as well as musical and theoretical skills gained in lower division music systems and theory classes in analytical assignments.
Course Documents
Documents
- Syllabus, Musc 110: Baroque and Classical Music History [PDF]
- Midterm Required Listening [PDF]
- Midterm names, works, and terms [PDF]
- Final Required Listening [PDF]
- Final terms [PDF]
Lecture Notes
Documents
- 1. The Baroque Style [PDF]
- 2. Basso Continuo [PDF]
- 3. Monody and the Creation of Opera [PDF]
- 4. Monteverdi and "L'Orfeo" [PDF]
- 5. Venetian Public Opera [PDF]
- 6. Early Baroque Vocal Forms [PDF]
- 7. Tragedie Lyrique & Dance Forms [PDF]
- 8. Corelli, the Sonata, and Tonality [PDF]
- 9, Vivaldi and the Ritornello Concerto Format [PDF]
- 10. J. S. Bach [PDF]
- 11. G. F. Handel [PDF]
- 12. Comic Intermezzo [PDF]
- 13. Scarlatti and the Sonata Form [PDF]
- 14. Sammartini, "Sonata" form, and the Symphony [PDF]
- 15. Haydn and the Symphony [PDF]
- 16. Mozart, (J. C. Bach) and the Classical Concerto [PDF]
Links
Assignments
Documents
- Assignment 1: Basso Continuo [PDF]
- Assignment 2: The Castrati [PDF]
- Assignment 3: Baroque Dances [PDF]
- Assignment 4: Baroque Ornaments [PDF]
- Assignment 5: Write Your Own Opera Seria [PDF]
- Assignment 6: Binary [Sonata] Form [PDF]
- Concert Report [PDF]
Links
- BBC 4: Castrato, Part 1
- BBC 4: Castrato, Part 2
- BBC 4: Castrato, Part 4
- BBC 4: Castrato, Part 5
- BBC 4: Castrato, Part 6
- BBC 4: Castrato, Part 3
Online Resources
Links to some Bay-Area groups performing Baroque and Classical music.
Links
- Bay Area Classical Harmonies (BACH)
- Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra
- Chora Nova
- Pacific Collegium
- San Francisco Bach Choir
- San Francisco City Chorus
- Voci Women's Vocal Ensemble
- San Francisco Lyric Chorus
- Master Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra
- Oakland Youth Orchestra
- Philharmonia Baroque
- San Francisco Symphony chamber music
- San José Chamber Orchestra
- Berkeley West Edge Opera
- Livermore Valley Opera
- San Francisco Opera
- Noe Valley Chamber Music
- San Francisco Early Music Society
- Old First Concerts
- San Francisco Performances