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Baroque Era Ch 11, 12, 13

Baroque Era Ch 11, 12, 13. Johann Sebastian Bach Baroque Suite Chorale Chorale Prelude Cantata. Johann Sebastian Bach. Church Musician Write music for services Play organ Teach choirs Teach soloists Conduct orchestra, choirs Court Musician Wrote music for entertainment

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Baroque Era Ch 11, 12, 13

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  1. Baroque EraCh 11, 12, 13 Johann Sebastian Bach Baroque Suite Chorale Chorale Prelude Cantata

  2. Johann Sebastian Bach • Church Musician • Write music for services • Play organ • Teach choirs • Teach soloists • Conduct orchestra, choirs • Court Musician • Wrote music for entertainment • Wrote commissioned pieces • School teacher • Organ teacher • Organ construction consultant • Composer—sacred & secular music • Husband/father Don’t write this down!

  3. Bach’s Music • Extremely large output • Finest quality • Great variety of genres • keyboard music (organ, harpsichord) • concertos • sonatas • motets • cantatas • even a Mass! • orchestral suites • NO OPERA Don’t write this down!

  4. Baroque Suite • Contrasting dance-inspired mvts (C)for listening, not dancing • All mvts in same key (U) • Mvt. 1 = serious French Overture (C)(strange way to open)

  5. Overview • Bach • Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, Bourrée • Dance Suite Movement • I= • Driving, exuberant rhythm • AABB form • Careful control of timbre Helps: Connect KamienKamien Text Listening Guide

  6. Chorale • Hymn for congregational singing • easy to sing • easy to remember • Homophonic • in German • Strophic Helps: Connect KamienKamien Text Listening Guide

  7. (of course!) Chorale Prelude • Played on organ • Uses: • as introduction to congregation’s singing of chorale • as prelude music before service • A chorale “decorated,” i.e., woven into a more elaborate piece

  8. Think about it… Furniture, machines, architectural components, musical instruments (e.g., pipe organ)—all highly decorated, become beautiful works of visual art as well as useful devices… Shrubbery is pruned into visually interesting, exotic shapes (topiary)… A simple chorale for congregational singing is woven into an elaborate, more complex, and lengthier piece of music… See a pattern here?

  9. Cantata • multi-movement, lengthy • chorus, soloists, orchestra, organ • most sacred, some secular Large-scale work • in German • usually based on Sunday’s scripture • many based on familiar chorales Usefulness in worship VIMP

  10. Cantata • Bach’s output = HUGE (>350) • variety • style • performing forces • highest artistic standards • sincere religious devotion

  11. Log • Bach • Cantata #140, (Wachet auf ) • Sacred cantata • I= • Mvt 4: 2 highly contrasting ideascombined in Ritornello-like organization • Mvt 7: simple homophonic chorale Helps: Connect KamienKamien Text Listening Guide

  12. Wachet auf chorale melody Zi - sing - hört Wäch- ter on die en

  13. Wachet auf, Mvt 4 combines 2 highly contrasting ideas: faster R & angular gestures Orchestra plays complex “decoration” sin------ hört die Wäch-ter gen----- on Zi - Tenors sing simple chorale melody slower R & smooth arched phrases

  14. Wachet auf, Mvt 4 Form: Decor Decor Decor Decor Chorale Chorale Chorale Chorale Decor Decor Decor Decor Decor Decor = musical “decoration” (see previous slide) This movement’s structure is similar to ritornello form. How does it differ from the Brandenburg ritornello form? Helps: Connect KamienKamien Text Listening Guide Name the elements or events that create UNITY. Name the elements or events that create CONTRAST.

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