...George Frideric Handel and Baroque Music Name: 高晓莹(Alison) Student No.:130440202 Major:Applied English(International Business) George Frideric Handel and Baroque Music It is commonly believed that music is an important way to express one's feelings and emotions. Music tells us who we are as well as reflects our thinking ,values and the social environment it came from. As we know, in the long run of history, music vary from period to period. Baroque music is one of the special style of music.Baroque music describes a style of European classical music approximately extending from 1600 to 1750. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance and was followed by the Classical era. The word "baroque" came from the Portuguese word barroco, meaning "misshapen pearl".That is to say, the typical characteristic of Baroque music is replacing the old with the new , though it may be irregular, exaggerated as well as grand. George Frideric Handel is a famous German-born British composer during this period. He was born in Halle (Germany), on February 23rd,1685, just a month before JS Bach was born in Eisenach, not so far to the south. Handel's father intended him for the law, but his own musical inclinations soon prevailed.He was strongly influenced both by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition. Following his studies in Germany, Handel went to Italy where he spent more than three years...
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...January Composer of the Week George Frideric Handel George Frideric Handel was a baroque composer. Handel lived from 1685–1759. He was born on February 23, in Halle, Germany in 1685. Handel died in London, England, in 1759. Handel went to the University of Halle for his education. ndel went to the University of George Frideric Handel composed operas, oratorios and instrumentals. His most famous work was Messiah in 1741. He started composing oratorios, when Italian Operas were not in fashion anymore. He wrote his first operas with the Royal Academy of England before the New Royal Academy of Music. This happened in 1727. Handel wrote forty-two operas, twenty-nine oratorios, more than one hundred twenty cantatas, trios and duets, numerous arias, chamber music, a large number of ecumenical pieces, odes and serenatas, and sixteen organ concerti throughout his life....
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...Explain the features of ‘And the glory of the Lord’ by Handel In terms of melody, word setting and structure, the piece, ‘And the glory of the Lord’ by Handel, is structured around the main 4 melodic ideas, starting with a rimornello: ‘and the glory of the Lord’( idea 1), ‘shall be revealed’ (idea 2), ‘and all flesh shall see it together’(idea 3) and ‘for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it’(idea 4). The first idea has two characteristic features. The first three notes, although not in order, make up up the A major triad and the second feature is a stepwise scale ending. The setting of the word is mainly syllabic. The second idea has a melismatic setting of the word ‘revealed’ and this is built up of a two one-bar descending sequence. The third idea is repetitive having three statements of the descending fourth idea. Because it is repeating, it gives the impression of a firm statement. The fourth idea is characterised by long repeated notes. These notes emphasise the idea ‘the Lord hath spoken it’. To achieve this strength Handel doubles the part with tenors and basses. All four of these short melodic phrases contrast from one another, so that when Handel combines them together, each melody having its own character and shape can be clearly heard. This piece’s instrumentation suits its grand yet religious nature. There is a SATB(Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass) choir. Double basses play same as cellos but sound an octave lower. The introduction is just the strings alone. Some...
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... | | | |PERIOD | |LIST 3 COMPOSERS |JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH |Ludwig van Beethoven |Vincenzo Bellini |Samuel Barber | | | | | | | | |George Philipp Telemann |Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin|Jean-Baptiste Duvernoy |Luciano Berio | | | | | | | | |George Frideric Handel |Christoph Willibald Gluck |Eliza Flower |Benjamin Britten | |For each Composer, list 3 |Johann Sebastian Bach- Wie |Ludwig van Beethoven- |Vincenzo Bellini- |Samuel Barber- Dover | |compositions |schön leuchtet der |Symphony No. 2, op. 36 (D |Adelson e Salvini, Bianca |Beach, Summer Music, and | | |Morgenstern, Ach Gott, vom |Major)," Symphony No. 3 |e Gernando, and Il pirata |Hermit Songs | | |Himmel sieh darein, and Ach |Eroica, op. 55 (E flat | | | | |Gott, wie manches Herzeleid...
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...written for 'outdoor' instruments for ease of hearing when on the river, and this was the first time horns were ever effectively used within an orchestra. Instruments were also almost certainly doubled Allegro The allegro movement starts off in the tonic key opening with a D major chord which sounds rather stately, almost like an announcement. After this, the trumpets play fanfare-like ideas in a repeated crotchet motif with an upbeat. The strings and oboes play two descending D major scales in unison. After this at bar 5, beat 2½, the fanfare ideas are then echoed in the horns with the bassoon and “basso” playing the string/ oboe motif heard in the opening 4 bars, with an octave repetition. There is antiphonal texture throughout, and Handel divides the orchestra into two distinct groups. Group 1 – oboes, trumpets, violins and violas. Group 2 – Bassoons, horns, cellos and basso. After this at bar 9 beat 3, there is a brief cadential idea (V – I) between the two groups. The entire movement is based around a series of short phrases (half a bar to 4 bars long). Statements made by trumpets and higher instruments (group 1) are then repeated by horns and lower instruments (an octave lower). This pattern continues until bar 37. Most phrases begin and end with either tonic or dominant harmony. In bar 15, the trumpets (and group 1)...
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...Andrew Ellis MUSI 3510 Goldstein 21 November 2013 Keyboard Suites of Handel and Bach The period from 1600 to 1750 gave western music some of its most well-known and beloved works. During this time, referred to as the Baroque Period, these pieces were written by some of the most prolific composers of all time. These musicians came from across Europe. Frenchmen, Italians, Englishmen, Germans, and others all made great contributions and advancements toward the development of music as we know it. However two of these men were perhaps the most important of all - George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach. While both of these men were born in Germany, the details of each of their employment in the musical profession includes vast differences in both the method by which they acquired their influences and the countries in which they held positions. The purpose of this essay is to use the details of each composer's life, prior to composition of the pieces in question, and musical examples from within the composition written from each man to differentiate and highlight specific writing styles and habits. Furthermore, two pieces will be from a genre that both Bach and Handel wrote in fairly extensively, the keyboard suite, will be used as these musical examples. Bach's English Suite No. 4 in F major (BWV 809) and Handel's Keyboard Suite No. 1 in A major (HWV 426) are the works that will be used. From Bach's Birth to His Time in Cothen Johann Sebastian Bach was born...
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...Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress | Table of Contents Music History from Primary Sources An Introductory Essay Alfred Mann A vellum leaf, 22 by 17 cm., from a prayer book. The letter forms of early Gothic script suggest the twelfth century, or a period even earlier. Neumes (marked in red) are placed above the first four lines of the Latin text. The entire page is richly illuminated in black, red, and blue, with a heavy gold layer decorating the initial A for the phrase beginning "Adoro te." The leaf was obtained for the Moldenhauer Archives from the music dealer and publishing firm Schneider, Tutzing. The Art of Musical Notation In its primary sources, music merges with the representational arts. Oral tradition has played a fundamental role in all ages, but in its formal sense, history--and the history of music--begins with the visual record. Musical notation, having emerged on a wide scale in all civilizations, produced in itself a highly individual record of artistic endeavor. The medieval monks who compiled the missals and other liturgical books for the service of worship rose from their function as scribes to artists in their own right; among the greatest documents of Baroque art are the holographs by Bach; and an entirely novel phase in artistic musical score design was initiated in the twentieth century. The primary sources of music reproduced in this volume rely on various aspects of the graphic arts, but foremost among them stands the representation...
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...George Frederic Handel His Life, His Times and His Music Table of Contents Handel’s Life Handel’s Times Handel’s Music What to listen for in Handel’s music Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op.3, No.2 Organ Concerto in F major, “The Cuckoo and the Nightingale” Water Music Suite Music for the Royal Fireworks “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” Messiah 2 6 10 14 14 14 14 15 15 16 www.ArtsAlive.ca 1 Handel’s Life Handel was born in Halle, Germany, on February 23, 1685. He showed interest in music, but was not encouraged to develop it. His father hated music, considering it a pastime that showed weakness of character. He wanted his son to have the financially secure career of a lawyer and therefore wouldn’t allow young Handel to play an instrument. Nevertheless, Handel managed to learn to play the organ and clavichord – a small instrument that resembles a piano. One story suggests that Handel’s sympathetic mother smuggled the clavichord to him in the attic. By covering the strings with cloth, Handel was able to practice every night without being heard by his father. Handel might never have been allowed to practice music openly if it hadn’t been for a duke who heard him play the organ. The duke persuaded Handel’s father to allow him to take music lessons. The young boy’s first music teacher was F.W. Zachau, the organist of the Lutheran Church in Halle. Handel, who was about eight years old, made quick progress under Zachau’s direction, learning the organ, harpsichord...
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...Tutorial 10 Anita Carolina (1001129588) Both Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel were Baroque composers that were born in Germany at the same year of 1685. Bach was born in Eisenach and came with musical family background over 6 generations which was based on the region of Thuringia in the Central Germany. In contrast, Handel was born in Halle and from a non-musical family. Both of them had different educational progress throughout their lives. Bach, in his early years, attended Latin School, learned violin with his short-lived father, and later on, he would study music with his older brother, Johann Christoph Bach whom was an organist himself. And afterwards, Bach took 2 years to study French Repertoire and local orchestra style in Luneberg School; nonetheless, he never completed his study. In the other hand, Handel was supposedly asked by his father to study law, but out of his interest, he played music without the knowledge of his father and later on, his father would later allowed him studied music education in organ, harpsichord, counterpoint, German and Italian idioms with Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow as his organ playing impressed even the Duke. Other than keyboard instruments, he also learned how to play oboe and violin. In 1702, he entered the University of Halle and chosen as cathedral organist. In the entire life of Bach, he had 4 different positions in different German local cities. His first position was as a church organist at Arnstadt in 1703 while...
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...composed sacred cantatas for functions like weddings. Typically, his cantatas open with a short orchestral prelude which is followed by an extended chorus, then solo singing interlaced with the chorales, and finally closing with a hymn. Bach composed over 300 cantatas. These intimate works offer a very personal view of his spirituality, of his vision of life and death, and of his lifelong devotion to his Creator. Later vocal music owes much to these cantatas, from the exquisite, delicate miniatures of Romantic period song-cycles to the grandiose choral exaltation of the closing movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. In the 17th and 18th centuries composer wrote the music that their employers demanded of them. Unlike his close contemporary Handel, Bach never worked for an employer who was interested in or who promoted opera. In fact, much of Bach's life was spent in the employment of the church, which is why we have so many church cantatas, motets and the great Passions. Operas were supposed to be light entertainment. Bach wasn't famous for anything light at all; his music was considered too somber and complex by most of his contemporaries. Also, Bach did not like operas too much--...
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...The Baroque Orchestra By Nunana Akoli Music during the Baroque period is known as the foundation for what is classical music, and one extremely important type of music is the Baroque Orchestra. This type of Orchestra was mainly practised from 1600 to 1750, following the death of one of the most influential composers of the time, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). During this time period, the Baroque Orchestra was created and developed by other very prominent composers of the time including George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), Claudio Montreverdi (1567-1643), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725), Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), Giovanni Bbattista Pergolesi (1710-1736) and many more. The Baroque period took advantage of the detailed use of polyphony, which is the texture which consists of 2 or more melodic tones that are woven together and played simultaneously, opposed to music that just consists of a single melodic voice or one with a more dominant melodic voice which would then be accompanied by chords. The orchestra itself was carried by a variety of different instruments including: Strings -Violin, The origins of the violin date back to as far as the 9th century and were thought to be first used by the Persian geographer named Ibn Khurradadhibih. JS Bach, Antonio Vivaldi and Arcangelo Corelli were well known for being talented violinists; Violins replaced Viols which were much...
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...does it really give? Handel's "Messiah" is a great example of how knowledge and the nature of God/the holy can be conveyed through the use of music. The song “Messiah" was written by a German composer, George Friederic Handel and is one of the most well-known pieces of music. "Messiah" is an oratorio (a sacred text set to music without drama) and was first performed on 13th April 1742 in Dublin and received its London premiere nearly a year later. Handel's Messiah is divided into three different parts: part one focuses on the Isaiah prophecies about Jesus and the Messiah. Part two is based around Jesus death and therefore part three focuses on his resurrection. The 'Hallelujah' chorus is the most popular part of the composition and has been adapted into modern versions sung by various artists around the world. Furthermore the actual oratorio libretto was written by Charles Jenners, the song has several biblical scriptures which are from Old Testament and the New Testament. The song is split into 3 parts, the first part of the song is the prophecy of the coming Messiah, the second part of the song shows the life of Jesus, his suffering and how died. The last part is about Jesus' resurrection and judgement. The piece of music conveys insight of God and Handel himself...
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...principios del XVIII[->15], con mayor o menor prolongación en el tiempo dependiendo de cada país. Se suele situar entre el Manierismo[->16] y el Rococó[->17], en una época caracterizada por fuertes disputas religiosas entre países católicos[->18] y protestantes[->19], así como marcadas diferencias políticas entre los estados absolutistas[->20], donde la aristocracia[->21] ejercía un férreo poder, y los parlamentarios[->22], donde una incipiente burguesía[->23] empezaba a poner los cimientos delcapitalismo[->24]. La música barroca[->25] es uno de los periodos de la historia musical[->26] occidental. Para Stanley Sadie este periodo posee cierta unidad entre 1600 y 1750 desde el compositor Monteverdi[->27] a Johann Sebastian Bach[->28] y Händel[->29]. Ivo Supicic considera que gran parte de la música de este periodo tiene una serie de características musicales comunes. La mayor parte de los estudiosos entienden que existen tres aspectos claves en el desarrollo de esta nueva expresividad musical denominada barroca que generaron los compositores: la monodia[->30] (o monofonía), elrecitativo[->31] y el bajo continuo[->32]. El musicólogo Adolfo Salazar[->33] describe así la innovación de la monodia frente a la polifonía[->34]: se abandonaron las múltiples combinaciones de voces superpuestas del Renacimiento, la nueva idea de la monodia abogaba por una sola voz protagonista que...
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...Johann Sebastian Bach composed numerous amounts of church cantatas in his lifetime and is known for several of them. His German background influenced many of his works as he lived in different cities throughout Germany in his lifetime. Although, he composed so many cantatas and other types of work, only fewer than a dozen were published in his lifetime as his music was regarded as old-fashioned. Many have noticed that “the dramatic and emotional force of his music, as evidenced in the Passions, was remarkable in its day and has spoken to succeeding generations with increasing power…. Bach’s music is supreme—to quote Wagner: ‘the most stupendous miracle in all music’.” Bach was born in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany on March 31, 1685. Coming from a family of musicians definitely aided him to become who he was. He studied religion, Latin, and other subjects in school starting at the young age of seven. Most of his pieces will reflect his strong North German Protestant religion, which was very common in his time. But unfortunately, by the age of ten, Bach became orphaned and lived with his older brother, Johann Christoph, who taught Bach to play the organ. In addition, his brother also enrolled him in a local school which helped benefit him further for his future musical career. However, Bach only stayed with his older brother until he was fifteen. Becoming a chorister at St. Michael’s Church in Lüneburg stemmed from Bach having a beautiful soprano voice. He then began to play the...
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...Tim Chang Music 261: Professor Kasunic The Blinding of a Rivalry Both Cuzzoni and Faustina were superstars of their era with many similar, yet contrasting characteristics. Francesca Cuzzoni was born on April 2, 1696 in Parma, Italy. She started her career at 18 in Italy and continued to strive from that point on in various parts of Europe. In 1722, the established composer, George Frideric Handel, recruited Cuzzoni to be the star of his Royal Academy of Music. She eventually joined Handel in England in 1723. Faustina Bordoni was born on March 30, 1697 in Venice, Italy. She, like Cuzzoni, made her debut in her hometown at the age of 19 and continued to flourish in this career. While Cuzzoni moved to London to work with Handel in 1723, Faustina continued to thrive in Italy. It was not until 1726 when Handel drew Faustina over to London to “rival” Cuzzoni in the Royal Academy of Music. Think of these two stars of Handel as the Britney and Christina of the 1720’s. The Academy is where most the media about their rivalry is expressed. Scholars such as Isabelle Emerson, Winton Dean, Steven LaRue and Suzanne Aspden have various viewpoints on Handel’s contribution to this rivalry. Emerson, writing in 2005 in her research of Five Centuries of Women Singers, argues that Cuzzoni and Faustina, though rivals, relied on each other for success. Emerson writes that, “rivalry aside, the two artists must have complemented each other remarkable well as singers. Contemporary...
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