chapter eight: early baroque vocal music
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Chapter Eight:Early Baroque Vocal Music
Baroque • Opera: • Libretto:
Overture:
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)• “The father of opera”
• Composed operas, madrigals, Masses, motets
• 1590: Worked as singer and performer on string instruments for Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga in Mantua– 1601: Appointed court director of music
– Composed the operas Orfeo (1607) and Arianna (1608)
• Became maestro di cappella (music director) at Saint Mark’s basilica in Venice
Orfeo (1607)
• Based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice
• Use of Monody:
• Recitative
• Aria
Chamber Cantata• For solo voice and a few accompanying instruments
• Intended to be performed at home or a private chamber (chamber music)
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)• Cantata L’amante segreto (The Secret Lover):
“Voglio morire” (I Want to Die) – Use of figured bass and ostinato
Opera in London
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)•1679: Position as organist at Westminster Abbey
•By 1682, organist for the king’s Chapel Royal as well
•Dido and Aeneas (1689): One of the first operas written in English
Dido’s Final Aria
• Introduced by “Thy hand, Belinda” – Simple recitative
• “When I am laid in earth” – Aria (Listening Ex: p. 106)– Built on a basso ostinato
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