MUSIC 308A Music History I - San Diego State University

MUSIC 308A Music History I
Ancient to Baroque
Fall 2013
San Diego State University
T/TH 8:00am-9:15am
M-245
Instructor: Dr. Richard H. Brown
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00-12:00pm, Wednesdays 5:00-6:00pm
Office: M 201
Email: rbrown@mail.sdsu.edu
Course Description The purpose and organization of this course are: 1) to become acquainted with the
repertory of Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music within its historical context, and to discuss the
problems associated with its study and performance. 2) to be able to recognize aurally and visually
(scores) different styles and genres of the period in question. 3) to hone your critical thinking and writing
skills. 4) to learn analytical techniques applicable to the music studied.
Required Texts (available at the university bookstore, but much cheaper online). These books will also be
used for MUSIC 308B and 408A
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Piero Weiss and Richard Taruskin, eds., Music in the Western World: A History in Documents
Second Edition (Belmont, CA: Thomson/Schirmer 2008) (will also be used for 308B and 408A)
J. Peter Burkholder and Claude V. Palisca, eds., Norton Anthology of Western Music, 3 vols. 6th
ed. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2010). For the Fall semester we will only need Volume 1, but
you will eventually need to purchase the second two volumes for 308B and 408A. The CD
collection purchase is optional: One copy of the Norton Recorded Anthology of Western
Music, Concise Edition (6 CDs) will be available on reserve for reference.
Optional Texts (not at the bookstore, but available online and on reserve in the library). I will put
readings from the textbook in the syllabus, and it is a very helpful volume to own if you want to spend
the extra money, but it is not required. All of the material you are responsible for will come from lectures
and the lecture Power Point slides, the anthology scores, and the Weiss/Taruskin source readings.
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Richard Taruskin and Christopher H. Gibbs, The Oxford History of Western Music, College Edition
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2013) – note, this is a one volume text, not to be confused
with the five volume set published in 2005 (You do not have to read 5,000 pages for this class!)
Listening examples will come from the recorded anthology and/or blackboard, and are listed in the
weekly schedule.
Supplementary texts will be provided on Blackboard. I will also provide PowerPoint slides from class
lectures, supplementary material and links on Blackboard on a regular basis, so it is essential that you
regularly check with the website for class updates.
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Grading:
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Weekly Quizzes
Bibliography Project
Examination I
Examination II
Final Examination
25%
25%
15%
15%
20%
THERE WILL BE NO MAKE-UPS FOR EXAMS
except in cases of a verified illness or emergency,
of which I am informed in advance.
The SDSU Code of Academic Integrity applies to all portions of this course. For an outline of possible
violations and sanctions, please refer to the SDSU student conduct code.
Student Disability Services: students requesting academic accommodations based on a disability must
register with Student Disability Services (http://www.sa.sdsu.edu/sds/index.html ) who will issue a
verification letter. SDS is located in Calpulli Center, Suite 3101, and is open from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
Mon-Fri; 594-6473.
Grading for the course is as follows:
93.00—100 = A
90.00—92.99 = A-
87.00—89.99 = B+
77.00—79.99 = C+
83.00—86.99 = B
73.00—76.99 = C
80.00—82.99 = B70.00—72.99 = Cbelow 60 = F
67.00—69.99 = D+
63.00—66.99 = D
60.00—62.99 = D-
Weekly Schedule Beginning the second week, we will start class each Thursday with a short quiz on the
material covered the prior week (except exam weeks, when there will be no quiz). This will include
listening and multiple choice questions. You are responsible for keeping up with all of the required
readings and listening, and to come to class prepared for the lecture. PowerPoint slides will be uploaded
to Blackboard each week, along with additional listening resources, flashcards, and supplementary texts.
There will be three examinations. Exams are not cumulative, thus you will only be responsible for the
material within the prior 5 week unit of study. I will provide a review sheet the week before each
examination of terms and listening examples.
Annotated Bibliography Project – Due Nov. 22nd This is the first of three writing projects for the music
history sequence at SDSU. Students will compile an annotated bibliography from a list of approved
topics. We will visit the library after exam II to explore the process of researching a paper topic.
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Schedule
Key
OHWM =
NAWM =
WT
=
BB
=
Optional Reading from Taruskin, Gibbs, The Oxford History of Western Music, College
Edition
Listening Example in Burkholder and Palisca, eds., Norton Anthology of Western Music.
Reading, listed by reading number, not page number, in Weiss/Taruskin,
Music in the Western World.
Reading/listening/assignment in Blackboard
Week Date
Topics, Readings, Assignment
I
Aug 27/29
Course preliminaries; The Earliest Music; Music in Greece and
Rome; Music in the Early Church; Music and Philosophy in Ancient Greece
Listening:
NAWM 1
NAWM 2
Reading:
OHWM, pp. 1-6
WT #2, 3, 4, 5, and 10
Sept. 3/5
Roman Liturgy and Chant
Listening:
NAWM 3
NAWM 4
NAWM 5
NAWM 6
II
NAWM 7
III
Epitaph of Seikilos, song (epigram) (First Century C.E.)
Euripides: Orestes, Greek tragedy, excerpt: Stasimon chorus (408
B.C.E.)
Mass for Christmas Day, Gregorian chant mass
Chants from Vespers for Christmas Day, Gregorian chant Office
Ascribed to Wipo of Burgundy: Victimae paschali laudes, sequence
Tropes on Puer natus: Quem queritis in presepe and Melisma (10th
cent.)
Hildegard of Bingen: Ordo virtutum, sacred music drama:
Chorus, In principio omnes (ca. 1151)
Reading:
OHWM, pp. 7-45
WT # 12, 13, and 14
Sept. 10/12
Secular Music; Polyphony Through the Thirteenth Century
Listening:
NAWM 8
NAWM 9
NAWM 10
NAWM 14
NAWM 15
Bernart de Ventadorn: Can vei la lauzeta mover, canso (troubadour
song) (ca. 1170-80)
Comtessa de Dia: A chantar, canso (troubadour song) (12th cent.)
Adam de la Halle: Jeu de Robin et de Marion: rondeau, Robins
m’aime
(ca. 1284)
Organa from Musica enchiriadis (c. 850-890)
Alleluia Justus ut palma, free organum, from Ad organum
faciendum (ca. 1100)
3
NAWM 17
NAWM 18
NAWM 19
NAWM 20
NAWM 21
NAWM 22
NAWM 23
IV
Reading:
OHWM: 46-90, WT: 15 & 16
Sept. 17/19
French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century, Exam Review
Listening:
NAWM 24
NAWM 25
NAWM 26
NAWM 27
NAWM 28
NAWM 29
NAWM 30
NAWM 31
V
VI
Leoninus and colleagues: Viderunt omnes, organum duplum (12th
cent.)
Clausulae on Dominus from Viderunt omnes (12th or early 13th
cent.)
Perotinus: Viderunt omnes, organum quadruplum (ca. 1198)
Ave virgo virginum, conductus (12th or early 13th cent.)
Motets on tenor Dominus (13th cent.)
Adam de la Halle: De ma dame vient/Dieus, comment
porroie/Omnes, motet (ca. 1260s-1280s)
Sumer is icumen in, rota (ca. 1250)
Philippe de Vitry: In arboris/Tuba sacre fidei/Virgo sum, motet (ca.
1320)
Guillaume de Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame, mass: Kyrie (ca
1364)
Guillaume de Machaut: Foy porter, virelai (mid 14th cent.)
Guillaume de Machaut: Rose, liz, printemps, verdure, rondeau
(mid 14th cent.)
Philippus de Caserta: En remirant vo douce pourtraiture, ballade
(ca. 1370)
Jacopo da Bologna: Non al suo amante, madrigal (ca. 1350)
Gherardello da Firenze: Tosto che l’alba, caccia (mid 14th cent.)
Francesco Landini: Non avrà ma’ pietà, balata (late 14th cent.)
Reading:
OHWM: 91-129
WT: 18, 19, 20
T Sept. 24
EXAM # 1:
Th. Sept. 26
Introduction to the Renaissance
Reading:
WT #24
Listening:
NAWM 32
NAWM 33
Oct. 1/3
English and Burgundian Music; Josquin des Prez and Company
Listening:
NAWM 34
NAWM 35
NAWM 36
Alleluia: A newë work, carol (early 15th cent.)
John Dunstable: Quam pulchra es, motet or cantilena (early 15th
cent.)
Binchois (Gilles de Bin): De plus en plus, rondeau (ca. 1425)
Guillaume Du Fay: Resvellies vous, ballade (1423)
Guillaume Du Fay: Christe, redemptor omnium, hymn in
fauxbourdon style (ca. 1430)
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NAWM 37
NAWM 38
NAWM 39
NAWM 40
NAWM 41
NAWM 42
NAWM 43
VII
Reading:
OHWM: 131-186
WT: 21, 22, 23, 26
Oct. 8/10
Sacred Music in the Era of Reformation
Listening:
NAWM 44
NAWM 45
NAWM 46
NAWM 47
NAWM 48
NAWM 49
VIII
Guillaume Du Fay: Se la face ay pale, ballade and cantus-firmus
mass: Gloria (1430s, ca. 1450s)
Antoine Busnoys, Je ne puis vivre, virelai (ca. 1460)
Jean de Ockeghem: Missa prolationum, mass: Kyrie (ca. 14201497)
Henricus Isaac: Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen, Lied (ca. 1500)
Josquin des Prez: Ave Maria . . . virgo serena, motet (ca. 1484-85)
Josquin des Prez: Missa Pange lingua, paraphrase mass: excerpts
(ca 1515)
Josquin des Prez(?): Mille regretz, chanson (ca. 1520)
Martin Luther: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland and Ein feste Burg,
chorales (1524 and 1529)
Loys Bourgeois: Psalm 134, Or sus, serviteurs du Seigneur,
metrical psalm (ca. 1551)
William Byrd: Sing joyfully unto God, full anthem (1580s – 1590s)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Pope Marcellus Mass, mass:
excerpts (ca. 1560)
Tomás Luis de Victoria: O magnum mysterium, motet and
imitation mass: Kyrie (ca. 1570)
Orlande di Lassus: Cum essem parvulus, motet (ca. 1579)
Reading:
OHWM: 186-223
WT: 27, 28, 29, 36, 37
Oct. 15/17
Madrigal and Secular Song
Listening:
NAWM 50
NAWM 51
NAWM 52
NAWM 53
NAWM 54
NAWM 55
NAWM 56
NAWM 57
NAWM 58
NAWM 59
NAWM 60
NAWM 61
Reading:
Juan del Encina: Oy comamos y bebamos, villancico (late 15th cent.)
Marco Cara: Io non compro più speranza, frottola (ca. 1500)
Jacques Arcadelt: Il bianco e dolce cigno, madrigal (ca. 1538)
Cipriano de Rore: Da le belle contrade d’oriente, madrigal (ca. 156065)
Luca Marenzio: Solo e pensoso, madrigal (1590s)
Carlo Gesualdo: “Io parto” e non più dissi, madrigal (ca. 1600)
Claudin de Sermisy: Tant que vivray, chanson (ca. 1527)
Orlande de Lassus: La nuict froide et sombre, chanson (ca. 1570s)
Claude Le Jeune: Revecy venir du printans, chanson (late 16th cent.)
Thomas Morley: My bonny lass she smileth, ballet (ca. 1595)
Thomas Weelkes: As Vesta was, madrigal (ca. 1601)
John Dowland: Flow, my tears, air or lute song (ca. 1600)
OHWM: 224-237
WT: 38, 39
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IX
Oct. 22/24
The Rise of Instrumental Music, Exam Review
Listening:
NAWM 62
NAWM 63
NAWM 64
NAWM 65
X
XI
Reading:
WT: 41, 42
T. Oct. 29
EXAM # 2
Th. Oct. 31
Library Research Visit
Nov. 5/7
Introduction to Baroque Music; The Birth of Opera and Chamber Music
Listening:
NAWM 66
NAWM 67
NAWM 68
NAWM 69
NAWM 70
NAWM 71
NAWM 72
NAWM 73
NAWM 74
NAWM 75
NAWM 76
NAWM 77
NAWM 78
NAWM 79
NAWM 80
NAWM 81
Reading:
XII
Tielman Susato: Dances from Danserye (ca. 1551)
Luis de Narváez: From Los seys libros del Delphin, intabulation
and variations for vihuela (ca. 1538)
William Byrd: Pavana Lachrymae, pavane variations (ca. 1600)
Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon septimi toni a 8, from Sacrae
symphoniae, ensemble canzone (ca. 1597)
Tues. Nov. 12
Listening:
Claudio Monteverdi: Cruda Amarilli, madrigal (late 1590s)
Giulio Caccini: Vedrò ’l mio sol, solo madrigal (ca. 1590)
Jacopo Peri: Le musiche sopra l’Euridice, opera: excerpts (1600)
Claudio Monteverdi: L’Orfeo, opera: excerpt from Act II (1607)
Claudio Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea, opera: Act I, scene 3 (1642)
Antonio Cesti: Orontea, opera: excerpt from Act II (1656)
Barbara Strozzi: Lagrime mie, cantata (1650s)
Gabriel Bataille: Ma bergere non légere, air de cour (ca. 1613)
Giovanni Gabrieli: In ecclesiis, sacred concerto (motet) (ca. 1610)
Alessandro Grandi: O quam tu pulchra es, solo motet (sacred concerto)
(ca. 1625)
Giacomo Carissimi: Historia di Jephte, oratorio: excerpt (ca. 1648)
Heinrich Schütz: O lieber Herre Gott, sacred concerto from Kleine geistliche
Konzerte I (ca. 1636)
Heinrich Schütz: Saul, was verfolgst du mich, sacred concerto, from
Symphoniae sacrae III (ca. 1650)
Girolamo Frescobaldi: Toccata No. 3 (ca. 1615, rev. 1637)
Girolamo Frescobaldi: Ricercare after the Credo from Mass for the
Madonna, in Fiori musicali (ca. 1635)
Biagio Marini: Sonata IV per il violino per sonar con due corde, sonata for
violin and continuo (ca. 1626)
OHWM: 239-287.
WT: 46, 48, 49.
Music Under the Sun King
NAWM 82
NAWM 83
NAWM 84
Jean-Baptiste Lully: Armide, opera: excerpts (1686)
Jean-Baptiste Lully: Te Deum, grand motet: conclusion (1677)
Denis Gaultier: La Coquette virtuose, courante (ca. 1650)
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NAWM 85
XIII
Reading:
OHWM: 287-295
WT: 54, 55
Th. Nov. 14
Rationalism and Music in the Early Modern Period
Listening:
BB
Johann Sebastian Bach, Violin Partita #2 in D minor, BWV 1004
(ca 1717-23)
Reading:
BB
BB
René Descartes, Passions of the Soul (1645-6)
Johannes Mattheson, The Complete Music Master (1739)
T. Nov. 19
Purcell’s London
Listening:
NAWM 86
BB
BB
Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, opera: Conclusion (1689)
Purcell, Funeral music for Queen Mary (1695)
March and Canzona
“From Silent Shades and the Elysian Groves” (1683), aka “Bess of
Bedlam”
Reading:
OHWM: 295-301
WT: 58
Th. Nov. 21
Vivaldi and the Rise of Tonally-driven Form
Listening:
NAWM 90
NAWM 91
NAWM 93
XIV
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre: Suite No. 3 in A Minor,
keyboard suite from Pièces de clavecin (ca. 1687)
Alessandro Scarlatti: La Griselda, opera: excerpt from Act I, scene
2 (1720-21)
Arcangelo Corelli: Trio Sonata, Op. 3, No. 2 (1680s)
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A Minor,
Op. 3, No. 6 (ca. 1710)
Reading:
OHWM: 303-321
WT: 61, 66
F. Nov. 22
Annotated Bibliography Project Due
T. Nov. 26.
Bach Instrumental Music
Listening:
NAWM 96
NAWM 97
BB
BB
BB
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in A Minor (ca. 1715)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale Prelude on Durch Adams Fall
(ca. 1716)
Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier (1722)
Prelude and Fugue in C Minor
Bach, Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in Eb Major, BWV 998
Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major (1721)
1st movement
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XV
Reading:
OHWM: 325-353
WT: 71
Th. Nov. 28
No Class, Thanksgiving Recess
Dec. 3
Bach Vocal Music
Listening:
NAWM 98
Reading:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, cantata
(1724)
BB
Bach, B-Minor Mass (1749)
Credo "Crucifixus"
Credo "Et resurrexit"
OHWM: 364-381
WT: 72, 73
Dec. 5
Handel
Listening:
NAWM 99
NAWM 100
XVI
George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare, opera: Act II, scenes 1–2
(1724)
George Frideric Handel: Saul, oratorio: Act II, scene 10 (1738)
Reading:
OHWM: 353-363
WT: 64, 69, 70.
T Dec. 10
Catch up and Review
Final Examination: Tuesday, December 17th, 8:00AM – 10:00 AM
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