Fall 2003
Listening and Reading Assignments

NOTE: In the listening assignments, F refers to examples in the Fuller anthology; NAWM refers to examples in the Norton Anthology of Western Music, 4th edition (this is on reserve; the call number is MT91 .N67 2001 v. 1); an asterisk - * - means that a score is not available. Translations for vocal works not contained in Fuller or NAWM are included in a separate handout.

The commentaries that follow each work in Fuller are extremely valuable guides to the music, and they form an integral part of the listening assignment.

Week 1

September 8 The Greco-Roman Heritage and the Early Christian Church
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 1-8, 23-30

10 Early sacred monophony 1
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 31-46
Listening:
Resurrexi (Introit) F 1a
Quem queritis (Introit trope) F 1b
Kyrie Cunctipotens genitor (melismatic version) F 1c1
Kyrie Cunctipotens genitor (Latin version) F 1c2
Haec dies (Gradual) F 1e
Alleluia Pascha nostrum F 1f
Credo F 1h
Terra tremuit (Offeratory) F 1i
Agnus Dei F 1k

12 Early sacred monophony 2
Reading and listening as above

Week 2

September 15 Later chant and medieval music theory
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 46-57
Listening:
Ave regina caelorum (Votive antiphon) F 7a
Veni sancta spiritus (Prose) F 7b
Pange lingua gloriosi corporis (Hymn) F 7c
Hildegard of Bingen – “In principio omnes” NAWM 6

17 Secular monophony
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 57-66
Listening:
Bernart de Ventadorn - Can vei la lauzeta mover F 8a
Chevalier mult estes guariz (Crusaders’ song) F 8d
Gace Brulé - Biaus m’est estez F 8e
Beatriz de Dia – A chantar *
(score and verse 1) NAWM 10

19 Early Polyphony 1
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 70-76
Listening:
Rex caeli Domine (organum at the fourth) F 4a
Sit Gloria Domini (organum at the fifth) F 4b
Kyrie Cunctipotens genitor (from Ad organum faciendum) F 4d
Wulfstance of Winchester [?] –
Alleluia Te martyrum (organum) F 5
Viderunt Emmanuel (Aquitanian versus) F 9a
Kyrie Cunctipotens genitor (from Codex Calixtinus ) F 9b

Week 3

September 22 Early Polyphony 2 School of Notre Dame
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 76-84
Listening:
[Alleluia Pascha nostrum] F 1f
Leonin
Alleluia Pascha nostrum (earlier version) F 10a
Alleluia Pascha nostrum (later version) F 10b
Perotin – Sederunt *
(excerpt in) NAWM 16
Deus in adjutorium (conductus sine cauda) F 12a
O tocius Asie (conductus cum cauda) F 12b

24 Early Polyphony 3
Reading and listening as above

September 26
13th-Century Motet I (to c. 1250)
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 84-87
Listening:
1) Ad solitum vomitum/Regnat (two-voice motet) F 13b
2) Ad solitum vomitum/Regnat (three-voice motet) F 13c
3) Depositum creditum/Ad soliutm vomitum/Regnat
(Latin double motet) F 13d
L’autre jour/Au tens pascour/In seculum
(French double motet) F 13f

Week 4

September 29 13th-Century Motet II (after c. 1250)
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 87-93
Listening:
El mois de mai/De se debent bigami/Kyrie F 15a
On parole de batre/A Paris/Frese nouvele F 15b
Alle psallite cum luya/Alle psallite cum luya/
Alleluia F 15c
Petrus de Cruce - Aucun ont trouvé/Lonc tans/
Annuntiantes F 15d
Clap, clap, par un matin/Sus Robin/Tenor *

October 1 14th-Century Ars nova
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 96-101
Listening:
Phillippe de Vitry - Tribum que/Quoniam secta/
Merito hec patimur F 16
Guillaume de Machaut
Bone pastor Guillerme/Bone pastor
qui pastores/Bone pastor F 17
Lasse! Comment oublieray/Se j’aim/Pour quoy *

First Paper Assigned – Due in class on Monday, October 13

3 Formes fixe in France and Italy
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 101-111
Listening:
Guillaume de Machaut
Nes que on porroit (ballade) F 18a
Quant j’ay l’espart (rondeau) F 18b
Dame à vous sans retollir (virelai) F 18c
Jacopo da Bologna - Non al suo amante (madrigale) F 19
Gherardello da Firenze - Tosto che l’alba (caccia) F 20
Francesco Landini - Questa fanciull’amor (ballata) F 21

Week 5

October 6 Late 14th-Century France - Ars subtilior
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 111-120
Listening:
Solage - Fumeux fume (rondeau) *
Johannes Symonis - Puisque je suis fumeux (ballade) *
Borlet (?) - Ma trédol rosignol joly (virelai) F 22
Johannes Ciconia - Sus un’fontayne (virelai) F 23

8 15th-century England
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 123-29
Listening:
Leonel Power
Credo (Opem nobis) F 24a
Ave regina caelorum (motet) F 24b
John Dunstable - Beata mater (motet) F 25
Guillaume Dufay - Christe, redemptor omnium F 26

10 Guillaume Dufay 1
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 129-41
Listening:
Guillaume Dufay
Ce moys de may soyons lies et joyeux (rondeau) F 30a
Adieu m’amour, adieu ma joye (rondeau) F 30b
Se la face ay pale (chanson) NAWM 29a

Week 6

October 13 Guillaume Dufay 2
Reading as above
Listening:
Guillaume Dufay
Agnus Dei from Missa Se la face ay pale F 27a
Ave regina caelorum (III) (motet) F 28

15 Mid 15th-Century Sacred and Secular Styles
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 144-63
Listening:
Johannes Ockeghem - Agnus Dei from Missa Mi-mi F 29
Hayne van Ghizeghem - De tous biens plaine (rondeau) F 31
Josquin des Prez
Faulte d’argent (chanson à 5) F 35a
Allegez moy doulce plaisant brunette (chanson) *

17 Mid-term recess

Week 7

October 20 In-class midterm through Dufay

22 Josquin des Prez and his successors
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 164-69
Listening:
Josquin
Ave Maria gratia plena (motet) F 32
Agnus Dei from Missa L’homme armé super
voces musicales F 33
[Pange lingua gloriosi corporis (hymn)] F 7c
Kyrie from Missa Panga lingua F 34a
Agnus Dei from Missa Panga lingua F 34b

24 Early 16th-Century National Styles
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 170-72; 177-83; 194-96
Listening:
Orsù orsù car’signori (Italian carnival song) F 38
Heinrich Isaac - Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen (Lied) NAWM 34
Marchetto Cara - Io non compro più speranza (frottola) F 39
Clément Janequin - Ou mettra l’on ung baiser
(Parisian chanson) F 48
Juan del Encina - Triste España (romance) F 37b

8 PM Concert Hall - La Venexiana: “Claudio Monteverdi: Art of the Madrigal” (Concert Series)

Week 8

October 27 The Early 16th-Century Italian Madrigal
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 183-90
Listening:
Jacques Arcadelt - Il bianco e dolce cigno F 50
Cipriano de Rore - De la belle contrade d’oriente F 51

29 The Later 16th-Century Italian Madrigal
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 190-94
Listening:
Luca Marenzio - Scaldava il sol F 52
Carlo Gesualdo - Moro, lasso, al mio duolo F 54
Claudio Monteverdi
Ecco mormorar l’onde *
Sì ch’io vorrei morire *
Cruda Amarilli F 53

October 31 France and England in the 16th Century
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 197-205
Listening:
Claude le Jeune - Revecy venir du printans NAWM 42
Thomas Weelkes - O Care, thou wilt dispatch me NAWM 43
Orlando Gibbons - The Silver Swan *
John Dowland
Flow my teares F 57a
Lachrimae Gementes F 57b

Week 9

November 3 Reformation and Counter-Reformation I
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 224-41
Listening:
Arnold von Bruck - Aus tiefer Not F 40c
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Agnus Dei I from Missa Pope Marcellus NAWM 47b
Veni sponsa Christi (antiphon) F 42b
Veni sponsa Christi (motet) F 42a
Kyrie from Missa Veni sponsa Christi F 43

5 Reformation and Counter-Reformation II
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 242-48
Listening:
Tomás Luis de Victoria
O magnum Mysterium NAWM 48a
Vidi speciosam sicut columbam *
Orlando di Lassus
Tristis est anima mea F 44
In teneris annis F 45
William Byrd - Miserere mihi, Domini F 46a

Thursday, November 6 8 PM Concert Hall – I Fagolini: “The Zenith of the
Madrigal” (Concert Series)

7 The Beginnings of the Baroque
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 251-66
Listening:
Emilio de’ Cavalieri - Dalle più alte sfere *
Giulio Caccini - Perfidissimo volto F 55
Sigismondo d’India - Cruda Amarilli F 56

Week 10

November 10 Opera I
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 266-73
Listening:
Jacopo Peri - excerpt from Euridice F 62
Claudio Monteverdi - excerpts from Orfeo
“Vi ricordi” through “Ahi caso acerbo” F 63a
“A l’amara novella” through “Ahi caso acerbo” F 63b
N.B. the recording of this excerpt includes the messenger’s
account of Euridice’s death (a largish passage that comes
in between F 63a and b)
Monteverdi’s Orfeo is on Video Disk: ML1500 M78 O6

12 Opera II
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 273-78
Listening:
Claudio Monteverdi – excerpts from
L'incoronazione di Poppea
Act I, scene 3 F 64
Final duet *
Monteverdi's Poppea is on Video Disk: M1500.M78I57
Antonio Cesti – excerpt from Orontea NAWM 56
Second paper assigned – Due in class on Monday, November 24

14 17th-Century Vocal Chamber Music
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 278-85
Listening:
Claudio Monteverdi
Zefiro torna F 58
Lamento della ninfa *
Hor che 'l ciel e la terra *
Barbara Strozzi – Cantata: Lagrime mie NAWM 57

Barbara Strozzi
Week 11

November 17 Venice
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 285-89
Listening:
Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzona Septimi Toni a 8 F 47
In ecclesiis F 59
Claudio Monteverdi - excerpts from Vespro
della beata Vergine (1610)
Deus in adiutorium *
Dixit Dominus *
Pulchra es *
A performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers filmed in St. Mark’s Venice is
available on Video Disk M2014.6.M66 V47

19 17th-Century Sacred Music 1
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 289-94
Listening:
Giacomo Carissimi – excerpts from Jephte
“Cum autem victor” through “Cantate mecum” F 65a
“Cum vidisset Jephte” through “Heu mihi! Filia mea” F 65b
“Plorate, plorate colles” to end NAWM 61

21 17th-Century Sacred Music 2
Reading: Grout & Palisca, as above
Listening:
Heinrich Schütz¨ -
O quam tu pulchra es F 60
Saul, Saul was verfolgst du mich F 61

Week 12

November 24 Keyboard Music
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 294-304; 351-54
Listening:
William Byrd – John come kiss me now F 70
Girolamo Frescobaldi – Toccata F 72
Johann Jacob Froberger – Suite VI F 74
Louis Couperin – Prélude a l'imitation de Mr. Froberger F 75

26-28 Thanksgiving recess

Week 13

December 1 Opera III and Cantata
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 309-27
Listening:
Jean-Baptiste Lully - excerpt from Alceste F 68
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas Act III *
The final scene, from “Thy hand Belinda” on, is F 69
A complete score is on reserve: Mini M1500.P99 D5 1986
Allesandro Scarlatti - excerpts from Su le sponde del Tebro F 81

3 Ensemble Music
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 356-64
Listening
Giovanni Legrenzi – Trio Sonata: La Raspona NAWM 74
Arcangelo Corelli
Sonata da camera a tre, Op. 4, No. 5 F 78
Sonata for violin and violone or cembalo, Op. 5, No. 1 F 80
Heinrich Biber – Rosary Sonata X F 79

5 Concerto
Reading: Grout & Palisca, 364-69; 373-80
Listening:
Antonio Vivaldi – Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 8, No. 8 F 89

FINAL EXAM -- Tuesday, December 9 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Pythagoras Robert Fludd – Universal Monochord (1621)