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Unit 5 Baroque Listening Examples
Number: 5.1 CD 2/4
Title: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, 1st Mvmt, Allegro
Composer: Bach
Genre: Concerto grosso
Characteristics
Texture: polyphonic
Text: none
Voicing/Instrumentation: flute, violin, harpsichord soloist, and orchestra
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Number: 5.2 CD 2/17
Title: Organ Fugue in g minor (Little Fugue)
Composer: Bach
Genre: fugue
Characteristics
Texture: polyphonic
Text: none
Voicing/Instrumentation: organ
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Number: 5.3 CD 2/20 pg 148-150
Title: Tu se morta from Orfeo
Composer: Monteverdi
Genre: recitative (opera)
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic
Text: Italian
Voicing/Instrumentation: male voice & basso continuo (portable organ, bass flute)
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Number: 5.4 CD 2/22 pg 151-152 (#21 recitative intro)
Title: Dido’s lament from Dido and Aeneas
Composer: Purcell
Genre: Aria (opera)
Characteristics
Texture: Homophonic
Text: English
Voicing/Instrumentation: soprano & strings/harpsichord
What I heard:
Number: 5.5 CD 2/41 pg 171
Title: Suite No. 3 in D Major, 2nd mvmt-Air
Composer: Bach
Genre: Suite
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic
Text: none
Voicing/Instrumentation: strings & continuo
What I heard:
Number: 5.6 CD 2/43
Title: Suite No. 3 in D Major, 4th mvmt-Bouree
Composer: Bach
Genre: Suite
Characteristics
Texture: polyphonic
Text: none
Voicing/Instrumentation: 2 oboes, 3 trumpets, timpani, strings, basso continuo
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Number: 5.7 CD 2/47 pg 174-175 (chorale base #53)
Title: Cantata No. 140 Awake a Voice is Calling Us, 1st mvmt
Composer: Bach
Genre: Cantata
Characteristics
Texture: Polyphonic
Text: German
Voicing/Instrumentation: chorus & small orchestra (2 ob, Eng. Horn, French horn, strings & basso continuo)
What I heard:
Number: 5.8 CD 3/9 pg 190-191
Title: Hallelujah Chorus from the Messiah
Composer: Handel
Genre: oratorio
Characteristics
Texture: polyphonic alt. with homophonic
Text: English
Voicing/Instrumentation: chorus & orch
What I heard:
Number: 5.9 CD 2/25
Title: La Primavera (Spring)
Composer: Vivaldi
Genre: violin concerto
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic alt with polyphony
Text: none
Voicing/Instrumentation: violin/string orch & harpsichord
What I heard:
Number: 5.10 CD 2/34 (prelude) 2/37 (fugue)
Title: Prelude & Fugue in c minor
Composer: Bach
Genre: fugue
Characteristics
Texture: polyphonic
Text: none
Voicing/Instrumentation: harpsichord
What I heard:
Number: 5.11 CD 3/3 pg 186
Title: Comfort Ye from The Messiah
Composer: Handel
Genre: oratorio (arioso)
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic
Text: English
Voicing/Instrumentation: male solo & orch
What I heard:
Number: 5.12 CD 3/5 pg 187
Title: Ev’ry Valley from The Messiah
Composer: Handel
Genre: oratorio (aria)
Characteristics
Texture: homophonic
Text: English
Voicing/Instrumentation: male solo & orch
What I heard:
Number: 5.13 CD 3/6 pg 188-189
Title: For Unto Us a Child is Born from The Messiah
Composer: Handel
Genre: oratorio (choral selection)
Characteristics
Texture: polyphonic alt w/homophonic
Text: English
Voicing/Instrumentation: chorus & orch
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