An Outline of The History of Western Music Grout ... - The Reel Score

- musical scheme brought together all the great traditions of the past
(chorale, solo song, concertated medium
c- all added to the dramatically powerful elements of operatic recitative &
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iii) strictly speaking, the designation "cantata" applies only to compositions of
this type
(3) The Passion
i) in Lutheran Germany, the "historia" - a musical setting based on some
biblical narrative was favored over the oratorio - the most important type of
historia was the Passion
ii) origins
a- plainsong settings of the suffering & death of Christ existed since
medieval times
b- after the 12th century, it was customary to recite the story in a semidramatic
mode with the priest singing the narrative portions, another the
words of Christ and a third the words of the crowd (the "turba" section)
c- after the 15th century, composers wrote polyphonic settings of the turba
portions in motet style - known as the "dramatic or scenic Passion"
d- "motet passions" appeared in the mid 15th century in which the entire text
was set as a series of polyphonic motets
e- "oratorio Passion" the rise in the concerted medium led to a new type of
Passion in the late 17th century derived from the oratorio
4. Composers
a) Catholic
(1) Italy
i) Maurizio Cazzati (ca. 2620-1677) published nearly fifty collections of sacred
vocal music between 1641 & 1678
ii) Giovanni Paolo Colonna (1637-1695) succeeded Cazzati in 1674 as music
director at San Perronio
iii) Legrenzi, & Antonio Lotti (1667-1740) in northern Italy
iv) Alessandro Scarlatti, & Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) in Naples
(2) Germany Catholic south
i) Antonio Caldara (ca. 1670-1736)
ii) Adolph Hasse (1699-1783)
iii) Johann Josef Fux (1660-1741)
(3) France
i) Marc-Antome Charpentier (1634-1704)
ii) Henri Dumont (1610-1684)
iii) Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
iv) Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726)
v) François Couperin (1668-1733)
b) Lutheran north Germany
(1) Matthias Weckmann (1619-1672)
(2) Franz Tunder (1614-1667)
(3) Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611-1675)