Listening

 

Topic I "Les Goûts-réunis"

 

Jean-Baptiste Lully, Atys (1676)

1. Ouverture

2. I,3 dialogue scene complex

 

Jean-Baptiste Lully, Armide (1686)

3. II, 3 monologue: "Enfin il est en ma puissance"

4. IV, 2 excerpt from divertissement

 

Alessandro Scarlatti, Griselda (1721)

5. Sinfonia

6. I, 4 dialogue recitative

7. "Nell'aspro mio dolor" da capo aria

8. I, 18 recit and "Amanti, che piangete" da capo aria

 

Archangelo Corelli

9. Sonata da chiesa Op.3 no.5 (1689)

 

François Couperin, Pièces de claveçin from 2e Ordre (1713)

10. "Les Ideés heureuses"

11. "La Florentine"

12. "La Terpsicore"

 

François Couperin, Les Nations (1726)

13.  Sonade "La Piémontoise"

 

François Couperin, L'Apothéose de Lulli (1725)

14. Essai en forme d'ouverture

15. Airs

 

Jean-Philippe Rameau, Hippolyte et Aricie (1733/45)

16. IV, 3 conclusion of divertissement: rondeau and air

17. deux menuets

18. bruit de mer et vents

19. IV, 4 Phèdre, choeur

 

Antonio Vivaldi

Op.8 Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (1725), Concerto No.9 in d minor

20. allegro

21. largo

22. allegro

 

Johann Sebastian Bach , Partita I in Bb excerpts

 

 

Topic 2 Sonata

 

 1. Niccolò Piccinni, La Cecchina, ossia la buona figliuola (1760) “Ah Cecchina il tuo Mengotto”

2. Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata K. 209  (c.1740)

3. C.P.E. Bach, Prussian Sonata No. 5 first movement (1742)

4. Haydn Symphony No.92 " Oxford ", first movement (1789)

5. W.A. Mozart, String Quintet No. 6 in E-flat, K.614, first movement (1791)

6.W.A. Mozart, Overture from Die Zauberflöte (1791)

7. F. Schubert, Piano Sonata in B-flat major, D960, first movement (1828)

8. R. Schumann, Piano Sonata in f# minor, op.11, first movement (1836)

9. J. Brahms, Cello Sonata in F major Op.99 (1886) first movement allegro vivace

 

 

Topic 3  Music and the Inner Life

 

1. J.S. Bach, "Wenn kommst du mein Heil?" from Cantata 140 "Wachet auf"      

2. J.S. Bach, “Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen”, opening chorus from Matthäus-Passion (1727) 

3-4. J.S. Bach, recit, chorus, aria from Matthäus-Passion 38a -40 choral (p.175-185) 

5. C.P.E. Bach, Fantasia II from Sonaten, freien Fantasien und Rondos für Kenner und Liebhaber, vol.5 (1786)

6. Nicolo Piccinni, “Una povera ragazza” from La Cecchina ossia la buona figliuola (1760)

7. Joseph Haydn, Symphony No.49 “La Passione” (1768) fourth movement

8. L. Beethoven "Heiliger Dankgesang" from String Quartet Op. 132 (1825)

9. Franz Liszt, Hamlet (1858)

??. J. S. Bach, "Erwäge wie sein blutgefärbe Rücken," St. John Passion (1724)

 

Topic 4 – Beethoven

Piano Sonata in c minor, “Pathétique”, Op.13, first movement (1797-98) cd1

String Quartet Op. 18 no. 6 “La Malinconia” – Allegretto quasi allegro (1800) cd1

“Eroica” variations for piano, Op.35 (1802) introduzione - var.1 and fugue cd2

Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”, Op. 55, first movement (1803) cd1

Song cycle “An die ferne Geliebte”, Op.98 (1816) cd1

String Quartet Op. 130 first movement and "Cavatina"  (1825) cd2

Grosse Fuge Op. 133 (1825-26) cd2

String Quartet Op.135 finale (1826) cd2

 

Topic 5 – Opera

Gianbattista Pergolesi (Federico), La serva padrona, “Sempr’incontrasti” (1733) – intermezzo

Niccolo Piccinni (Goldoni), La Cecchina ossia la buona figliuola, Act 2, 13-15 (1760) , chain finale, melodramma giocoso [text only for this work]

Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice ( Vienna , 1762), Act 2 scene 1 – reform opera

W.A. Mozart (DaPonte), Le nozze di Figaro (1786), Act 1, no. 7, Terzetto – opera buffa

Richard Wagner, Tristan und Isolde (1857-59, 1865), Act 3 excerpts – music drama

Giuseppe Verdi (Boito), Otello (1887), Act 1 excerpts

Giuseppe Verdi (Boito), Otello (1887), Act 4 excerpts

Jacques Offenbach (Crémieux & Halévy) Orphée aux enfers, opéra bouffe (1858), Act 2, scene 3, no 12, “Duo de la mouche”