Scores

Monteverdi, Vespers of 1610
Purcell, Dido and Aeneas
Vivaldi, The Seasons
Bach, Orchestral Suites & Brandenburg Concertos
Bach, St. Matthew Passion
Handel, Giulio Cesare

Recordings

Monteverdi, Vespers of 1610. CD 3338 (Martin Perlman)
Monteverdi, Vespro della Beata Vergine, 1610. CD 778 (Jürgen Jürgens)

Purcell, Dido and Aeneas. CD 3409 (Benjamin Britten)
Purcell, Dido and Aeneas. CD 83 (Raymond Leppard)

Vivaldi, The Four Seasons. CD 4263 (Andrew Parrott)
Vivaldi, The Four Seasons. CD 3837 (Anne Sophie-Mutter)
Vivaldi, The Four Seasons. CD 3252 (Iona Brown)

J.S. Bach, Ouvertüren. CD 4080 (Nos. 1 & 3), CD 4081 (Nos. 2 & 4)
(Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin)
J.S. Bach, 4 Orchestral Suites. CD 2995 (Philip Pickett)
J.S. Bach, Les Quatre Ouvertures. CD 1102 (Jordi Savall)

J.S. Bach, Brandenburg Concertos. CD 3027 (Ross Pople)
J.S. Bach, Brandenburg Concertos. CD 1146 (Trevor Pinnock)
J.S. Bach, Brandenburg Concertos. CD 61 (Reinhard Goebel)

J.S. Bach, St. Matthew Passion. CD 3894 (Philippe Herreweghe)
J.S. Bach, St. Matthew Passion. CD 1101 (John Eliot Gardiner)

Handel, Giulio Cesare. CD 1606 & CD 1674 (Rene Jacobs)
Handel, Giulio Cesare. CD 722 (Julius Rudel)
Handel, Giulio Cesare. Video cassette 40

Student Journal and Assignments

You are required to keep a journal which will reflect the work you do in connection with this class. There will be some kind of analytical assignment with each work. You will also write a “summary paper” on one or more readings in connection with each work, and in addition you are to write a short summary of the information you have learned for each composer studied. The journal will include these assignments and summaries, and might also include class handouts and notes, a list of readings and any notes taken while completing the readings, notes on listening, etc.

Readings (Monteverdi)

Conlon, Joan Catoni. Performing Monteverdi: A Conductor’s Guide, 2001.

Kurtzman, Jeffrey. The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610, 1999 (603 pp.)

Stevens, Denis. “Monteverdiana 1993” Early Music, XXI/4 (1993), 565-74.

Whenham, John. Monteverdi Vespers (1610), 1997. Cambridge Music Handbooks

Readings (Purcell)

Burden, Michael, ed. The Purcell Companion, 1995. Roger Savage, “Producing Dido and Aeneas: An Investigation into Sixteen Problems,” 445-68.

Harris, Ellen T. Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, 1987

Moore, Robert E. Henry Purcell & the Restoration Theatre, 38-69, 1974

Price, Curtis A. Henry Purcell and the London Stage, 225-62, 1984

Price, Curtis A. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, An Opera, 1986. Norton Critical Scores

Readings (Vivaldi)

Everett, Paul. Vivaldi: The Four Seasons and Other Concertos, Op. 8, 1996. Cambridge Music Handbooks

Readings (Bach Orchestral Suites)

Mather, Betty Bang. Dance Rhythms of the French Baroque, 1987

Readings (Bach Passion)

Butt, John ed. The Cambridge Companion to Bach, 1997. Robin A. Leaver, “The mature vocal works and their theological and liturgical context,” The Passions, 99-108

Daw, Stephen. The Music of J. S. Bach: The Choral Works, 106ff

Robinson, Ray and Allen Winold. A Study of the Penderecki St. Luke Passion, 1983. Ch. II, “A Brief History of the Passion” (27-38)

Steinitz, Paul. Bach’s Passions

Readings (Handel)

Dean, Winton. Handel’s Operas, 1704-1726, 483-526

LaRue, C. Steven. Handel and his Singers, 1995

Meynell, Hugo. The Art of Handel’s Operas, 1986, 92-98