1. Class of 1685 The Instrumental Music of Bach and Handel

2. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)

3. Careers and Lifestyles Handel – 1685: born in Halle, Germany – 1703: Hamburg worked as violinist and harpsichordist, composer

4. Careers and Lifestyles Handel – 1685: born in Halle, Germany – 1703: Hamburg worked as violinist and harpsichordist, composer – 1706–1710: Florence and Rome formative years, “Il Sassone”

5. Careers and Lifestyles Handel – 1685: born in Halle, Germany – 1703: Hamburg worked as violinist and harpsichordist, composer – 1706–1710: Florence and Rome formative years, “Il Sassone” – 1710: Hanover music director for the Elector of Hanover

6. Careers and Lifestyles Handel – 1685: born in Halle, Germany – 1703: Hamburg worked as violinist and harpsichordist, composer – 1706–1710: Florence and Rome formative years, “Il Sassone” – 1710: Hanover music director for the Elector of Hanover – 1711: England elector of Hanover becomes King George I of England

7. Careers and Lifestyles Bach – The Bach family of musicians – 1685: born in Eisenach, Germany – 1703–1707: served as organist in Arnstadt

8. Careers and Lifestyles Bach – 1685: born in Eisenach, Germany – 1703–1707: served as organist in Arnstadt – 1708: served as organist in Mühlhausen

9. Careers and Lifestyles Bach – 1685: born in Eisenach, Germany – 1703–1707: served as organist in Arnstadt – 1708: served as organist in Mühlhausen – 1708–1717: served as organist and concert director in Weimar

10. Careers and Lifestyles Bach – 1685: born in Eisenach, Germany – 1703–1707: served as organist in Arnstadt – 1708: served as organist in Mühlhausen – 1708–1717: served as organist and concert director in Weimar – 1717–1723: served as music director in Cöthen

11. Careers and Lifestyles Bach – 1723: served as music director at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig

12. The Chorale Prelude Orgelbüchlein Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt [Anthology 1-84]

13. The Fugue sectional toccata “toccata and fugue;” “fantasia and fugue” “prelude and fugue” Bach, Fugue in G minor [Anthology 1-82] – subject – answer – countersubject – episode

14. The “Well-Tempered Keyboard” Das wohltemperirte Clavier – Book 1 (1722) – Book 2 (1738-1742) – B minor fugue [Anthology 1-83] appoggiaturas Seufzer “sighs, groans”

15. Bach’s Imported Roots Georg Muffat (1653–1704) – treatise on how to play in the Lullian style

16. Bach’s Imported Roots Johann Jacob Froberger (1616–1667) – Dix suittes de clavessin French dance music binary form

17. Bach’s Imported Roots Johann Jacob Froberger (1616–1667) – Dix suittes de clavessin French dance music binary form core dances – allemande (broad quadruple meter) – gigue (6/8 meter) – courante (grave triple meter, with hemiola effects) – sarabande (majestic triple meter)

18. Bach’s Suites French Suites (Froberger model) – galanterie; galant French Suite No. 5, in G major [Anthology 1-85] – allemande – courante – sarabande – gavotte – bourée – loure – gigue

19. “Agréments” and “Doubles”: The Arts of Ornamentation François Couperin (1668–1733) 14 th Set of harpsichord compositions (1722) – Le Rossignol en amour [Anthology 1-86] gigue character piece agréments double

20. Stylistic Hybrids: The “Brandenburg” Concertos French dance music Keyboard arrangements of Italian concertos The “Brandenburg Concertos” – assembled in 1722 in Cöthen – usually scored ensembles

21. Stylistic Hybrids: The “Brandenburg” Concertos The Fifth Brandenburg Concerto in D major [Anthology 1-87] – concertino: violin, transverse flute, written-out harpsichord part – cembalo solo senza stromenti (the harpsichord alone without instruments)

22. Handel’s Instrumental Music 2 dozen concertos grosso Solo organ concertos Orchestral suites – “Handel’s Celebrated Water Musick” (1717) – “The Musick for the Royal Fireworks” (1749)