Companion to Music in the Baroque.
A concise anthology including a wide range of Baroque music.
Anthology for Music in the Baroque, part of the Western Music in Context series, is the ideal companion to Music in the Baroque. Twenty-six carefully chosen worksincluding a lute song by John Dowland, a cantata by Barbara Strozzi, and selections from J. S. Bachs Art of Fugueoffer representative examples of genres and composers of the period. Commentaries following each score present a careful analysis of the music, and online links to purchase and download recordings make listening easier than ever.
Claudio Monteverdi, "O Mirtillo" from Fifth Book of Madrigals
Giulio Caccini, "Dovrņ dunque morire" from Le nuove musiche
John Dowland, "Flow, my tears" from The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres
Claudio Monteverdi, "Tu se' morta" and "Ahi, caso acerbo" from LOrfeo
Claudio Monteverdi, Lamento della ninfa, from Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi
Girolamo Frescobaldi, Toccata No. 2, from Toccate e partite d'intavolatura di
cimbalo, Book 1
Dario Castello, Sonata No. 2 from Sonate concertate in stil moderno, Book 2
Johann Jacob Froberger, Suite in C major, FbWV 612, from Libro quarto di
toccate, ricercari, capricci, allemande, gigue, courante, sarabande
Claudio Monteverdi, "Duo seraphim" from Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610)
Heinrich Schütz, "Fili mi, Absalon" SWV 269, from Symphoriae sacrae, Book 1
Giacamo Carissimi, "Plorate colles" from Jephte
Francesco Cavalli, "Infelice, ch'ascolto?" from Giasone
Jean-Baptiste Lully, "Le perfide Renaud me fuit" from Armide
Henry Purcell, "What ho!" and "What power are thou" from King Arthur
Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto for Viola d'amore and Lute, RV 540: Movement 1,
Allegro
Barbara Strozzi, "Begli occhi" from Cantate, ariette, Op. 3
Arcangelo Corelli, Violin Sonata in A Major, Op. 5, No. 9
Franēois Couperin, La ténébreuse and Les moissonneurs from Pičces de
clavessin
Jean-Philippe Rameau, "A l'aspect de ce nuage" from Platée
Dieterich Buxtehude, Ad cor: Vulnerasti cor meum from Membra Jesu nosti,
BuxWV 75
Georg Philipp Telemann, Ouverture burlesque de Quixotte, TWV 55:G10
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Crucifixion Sonata from the Mystery Sonatas
George Frideric Handel, Rinaldo, HWV 7a: Act 1, scenes 6, 7, and 9
George Frideric Handel, Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, scene 3
Johann Sebastian Bach, St. John Passion, BWV 245: Part 2, nos. 37-32
Johann Sebastian Bach, Contrapuncti 1 and 7 from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080
Wendy Heller is Professor of Music and Director of the Program in Italian Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice and articles published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Early Music, and Music & Letters. Hellers writings have received awards from the American Musicological Society and the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, and she has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. Walter Frisch is H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Brahms: The Four Symphonies, The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg 19031908, and German Modernism: Music and the Arts. He is the recipient of two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
