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Music 653
Guidelines for Presentations: Classical Period
- Classical opera
- Development of opera from Baroque to Classical
- Opera seria in the Classic era
- Gluck and "Reform" operas
- Opera buffa
- Include discussion of the following works by principal composers in terms of typical structure, style (there will not be time to listen to all of them -- bring scores to look at; maybe play short selections):
- Pergolesi, La serva padrona [CD 4282; M1500.P422 S5]
Gluck, Iphigenie in Aulide [CDBox 11; M1503.G569 I64]
- Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro [CDbox 55; M1500.M84 N54 1979]
- Classical choral music and Haydn
- Vocal style of Classical sacred music
- Types of sacred works: Missa Brevis, Missa Solemnis (or Longa), motets, psalms, Magnificat, etc.
- Haydn’s Life
- training, influences, important life events
- life within the patronage system of the time
- personal stylistic development
- Include discussion of the following works by principal composers in terms of typical structure, style (there will not be time to listen to all of them -- bring scores to look at; maybe play short selections):
- Mozart: C minor Mass, K. 427 [CD 1054; M3.M896 Ser. 1, Wk. 1, Sec. 1, v. 5]
- Mozart: Ave verum corpus [CD 1054; M3.M896 Ser. 1, Wk. 3]
- Haydn: The Creation [CD 1852; M2000.H35 S34]
- Haydn: Missa in tempore belli [CD 800; M3. H46 Ser. 23 v. 2]
- In the study sheet, include a works list of Haydn’s most important works in the genres of opera and choral music.
- important works in the genres of opera and choral music.
- Mozart
- Life: training, influences, important life events
- Mozart’s life within the patronage system of the time
- Personal stylistic development
- Include discussion of the following works (there will not be time to listen to all of them -- bring scores to look at; maybe play short selections):
- Don Giovanni [CDBox 108; M3.M9392 K. 3 no. 420] [CDBox 164 (1 day reserve)]
- Requiem [CD 1722; M2010. M93 K. 626, K9]
- In the study sheet, include a works list of the most important works in the genres of opera and choral music.
- Beethoven
- Life: training, influences, important life events
- Beethoven’s life within the patronage system of the time
- Personal stylistic development.
- "Rescue" operas and Beethoven’s Fidelio
- Include discussion of the following works (there will not be time to listen to all of them -- bring scores to look at; maybe play short selections):
- Fidelio [CDBox 125; M3.B43 no. 435]
- Missa solemnis [CD 829; M3.B43 no. 432]
- In the study sheet, include a works list of the most important works in the genres of opera and choral music.
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