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Fran ç ois Couperin 1668-1733

Fran ç ois Couperin 1668-1733. L’art de toucher le clavecin. Questions of ornamentation. Is the ornament diatonic, or does it require an accidental? Does it precede the main note or fall on the beat? Is it fast or slow? If slow, what proportion of the main note does the ornament require?

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Fran ç ois Couperin 1668-1733

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  1. François Couperin 1668-1733

  2. L’art de toucherle clavecin

  3. Questions of ornamentation • Is the ornament diatonic, or does it require an accidental? • Does it precede the main note or fall on the beat? • Is it fast or slow? • If slow, what proportion of the main note does the ornament require? • Does the stress lie more on the ornament or the main note?

  4. Antonio Vivaldi • Venetian composer • Holy Orders in his early twenties.

  5. il prete rosso - “The Red Priest” Girls’ orphanage in Venice Composer in one of four of the most important music schools of Italy (and Europe) Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

  6. Vivaldi’s Musical Style • Vivaldi is credited for helping to free instrumental style from vocal style. • Each piece is used as a teaching tool to create virtuosity in the players of the orphanage and music school. • Vivaldi boasted that he could write a concerto faster than the copyist could copy it!

  7. Vivaldi’s Musical Style • Rapid scale patterns • Arpeggio: the outlining of a chord’s root, third, fifth and octave. • Change of register. High Low • Tessitura: range of an instrument • Creating contrasting timbres by blending different instruments together. (sonority)

  8. The Four Seasons: Spring • La Primavera: The Spring • Programmatic Concerto: • Program Music: Music that is inspired by prose, poetry, painting, or a scene or event in the mind of the composer.

  9. The Four Seasons: Spring • Program: the actual thought, poetry, or prose. • La Primavera describes with music a poem from The Contest Between Harmony and Inspiration… attributed to the composer.

  10. Spring – Concerto in E Major Allegro Springtime is upon us. The birds celebrate her return with festive song, and murmuring streams are softly caressed by the breezes. Thunderstorms, those heralds of Spring, roar, casting their dark mantle over heaven, Then they die away to silence, and the birds take up their charming songs once more. Largo On the flower-strewn meadow, with leafy branches rustling overhead, the goat-herd sleeps, his faithful dog beside him. Allegro Led by the festive sound of rustic bagpipes, nymphs and shepherds lightly dance beneath the brilliant canopy of spring.

  11. La Primavera: First movement • Joyful spring has arrived (the Spring theme: Ritornello) • The birds greet it with their cheerful song. • And the brooks in the gentle breezes. • Flow with a sweet murmur. • The sky is covered with a black mantle, and thunder and lightening announces a storm • When they fall silent, the birds take up again their melodious song.

  12. Ritornello form Vivaldi’s Concerto, Mvt 1 R1S1 R2 S2 R3 S3 R4S4 R5 S5 R6 Song of birds Murmuring streams How is S2 NOT consistent w/ the form? Song of birds Thunder lightning

  13. Compositions • Over 500 concertos • 46 operas • sinfonias • 73 sonatas • chamber music • sacred music

  14. Foremost French musician of 18th century Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)

  15. Rameau: Music Theory

  16. Treatise on Harmony (1722) • Coined the terms tonic, dominant and subdominant • harmonic progression through falling 5th (or rising 4th) • chords maintain their identity regardless of inversion (harmony is based on root progression, regardless of lowest note)

  17. Rameau: Music Theory • the chord is the primal element in music • a chord maintains its identity in all inversions basse fondamentale or root progression • Triadic relationships: tonic, dominant, etc. • Hierarchial function of triads • Pivot chord modulation

  18. Rameau - theory II • 3. Triadic relationships - tonic, domininant, etc. • 4. Hierarchial function of triads • 5. Pivot chord modulation

  19. Hippolyte et Aricie (1733) • music almost programmatic (rough sea, high winds • “Ah! faut-il” • tragédie lyrique • monologue

  20. Exposed to greatness • Alexandre-Jean-Joseph Le Riche de la Poupliniere (a rich tax collector) became Rameau’s patron • Poupliniere’s gatherings included Voltaire, Rousseau, and Casanova

  21. Rameau and Voltaire

  22. Lullistes versus Ramistes Rameau: “subverter of the good old French opera tradition of Lully” • more expressive, dramatic (due to more chromatic harmonies) • innovative orchestration (more winds) • increase in homophonic sections (Classical period is right around the corner)

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