1. MUH 3211 - Music History I Vocal Music, 1650-1750
11/19/2018
Chapter Nine
Vocal Music,
DAY 30 (15 Nov 17)

2. Dido and Aeneas (1689?) Henry Purcell (1659-95)
Virgil’s Aeneid (Bk IV) - adapted by Nathun Tate
Jonas Priest’s Girl’s School (Chelsea)
1st performed by 1689
All female roles (7-8?)
Later adapted as masque
Score lost/revised
Dido – Queen of Carthage
Aeneas – Hero of Trojan War/will found Rome
Anth I/83 - overture - No.1 (Scena) 1:58 - No. 2 (Dido) 3:00 - No. 3 (recit.) 7:24 - No. 4 (Chorus) 7:59 - No. 5 (recit.) 8:14 - No. 6 (Duet/Chorus) 10:15
Dido’s Lament (44:30)

3. Sacred Music : Oratorio
Opera in Rome - banned Easter/Advent
Oratorio replaces opera - not staged - Biblical stories (Latin) - use of Chorus
Giacomo Carissimi - leading composer in Rome of oratorio
Jepthe (c ) - Anth I/85
Book of Judges, 11-12

4. Sacred Music : Cantata From “cantare” (It.) – “to sing”
Can be sacred or secular (chamber music)
Single or multi-movement
Solo singer w/ accompaniment (or larger forces)
Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre ( )
Judith (1708) Anth I/87 - “Le coup est achevé” (starts 14:36)

5. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Born into family of musicians (from 1400s!)
Organist, etc.
Arnstadt, Mühlhausen, Weimar, Cöthen (organist & instrumental conductor)
1722 – Leipzig – Cantor of St. Thomas (church music) – to end of his life!
All genres except opera
Two wives, 20 children (!)

6. Thomaskirche (Leipzig)

7. J.S. Bach’s Cantatas Over 300 cantatas
Three complete church cycles (50+ per year!) in Leipzig (starting 1723)
Composed, copied, rehearsed & performed (Every week)
4 choirs in 4 churches (rotating weekly)
Based in weekly Bible readings & texts
Chorale tunes (Luther)
Mixture of movements - Choral ritornello - recitative & aria (d.c.) - duets, etc. - Chorale (4 part harmonization)
Anth I/88 (complete)