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Class of 1685

Class of 1685. The Instrumental Music of Bach and Handel. Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685–1750 ) George Frideric Handel ( 1685–1759 ) Domenico Scarlatti ( 1685–1757 ). Careers and Lifestyles. Handel 1685: born in Halle, Germany 1703: Hamburg

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Class of 1685

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  1. Class of 1685 The Instrumental Music of Bach and Handel

  2. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) • George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) • Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)

  3. Careers and Lifestyles • Handel • 1685: born in Halle, Germany • 1703: Hamburg • worked as violinist and harpsichordist, composer

  4. Careers and Lifestyles • Handel • 1685: born in Halle, Germany • 1703: Hamburg • worked as violinist and harpsichordist, composer • 1706–1710: Florence and Rome • formative years, “Il Sassone”

  5. Careers and Lifestyles • Handel • 1685: born in Halle, Germany • 1703: Hamburg • worked as violinist and harpsichordist, composer • 1706–1710: Florence and Rome • formative years, “Il Sassone” • 1710: Hanover • music director for the Elector of Hanover

  6. Careers and Lifestyles • Handel • 1685: born in Halle, Germany • 1703: Hamburg • worked as violinist and harpsichordist, composer • 1706–1710: Florence and Rome • formative years, “Il Sassone” • 1710: Hanover • music director for the Elector of Hanover • 1711: England • elector of Hanover becomes King George I of England

  7. Careers and Lifestyles • Bach • The Bach family of musicians • 1685: born in Eisenach, Germany • 1703–1707: served as organist in Arnstadt

  8. Careers and Lifestyles • Bach • 1685: born in Eisenach, Germany • 1703–1707: served as organist in Arnstadt • 1708: served as organist in Mühlhausen

  9. Careers and Lifestyles • Bach • 1685: born in Eisenach, Germany • 1703–1707: served as organist in Arnstadt • 1708: served as organist in Mühlhausen • 1708–1717: served as organist and concert director in Weimar

  10. Careers and Lifestyles • Bach • 1685: born in Eisenach, Germany • 1703–1707: served as organist in Arnstadt • 1708: served as organist in Mühlhausen • 1708–1717: served as organist and concert director in Weimar • 1717–1723: served as music director in Cöthen

  11. Careers and Lifestyles • Bach • 1723: served as music director at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig

  12. The Chorale Prelude • Orgelbüchlein • Durch Adams Fall istganzverderbt [Anthology 1-84]

  13. The Fugue • sectional toccata • “toccata and fugue;” “fantasia and fugue” • “prelude and fugue” • Bach, Fugue in G minor [Anthology 1-82] • subject • answer • countersubject • episode

  14. The “Well-Tempered Keyboard” • Das wohltemperirte Clavier • Book 1 (1722) • Book 2 (1738-1742) • B minor fugue [Anthology 1-83] • appoggiaturas • Seufzer“sighs, groans”

  15. Bach’s Imported Roots • Georg Muffat (1653–1704) • treatise on how to play in the Lullian style

  16. Bach’s Imported Roots • Johann Jacob Froberger (1616–1667) • Dix suittes de clavessin • French dance music • binary form

  17. Bach’s Imported Roots • Johann Jacob Froberger (1616–1667) • Dix suittes de clavessin • French dance music • binary form • core dances • allemande (broad quadruple meter) • gigue (6/8 meter) • courante (grave triple meter, with hemiola effects) • sarabande (majestic triple meter)

  18. Bach’s Suites • French Suites (Froberger model) • galanterie; galant • French Suite No. 5, in G major [Anthology 1-85] • allemande • courante • sarabande • gavotte • bourée • loure • gigue

  19. “Agréments” and “Doubles”:The Arts of Ornamentation • François Couperin (1668–1733) • 14th Set of harpsichord compositions (1722) • Le Rossignol en amour [Anthology 1-86] • gigue • character piece • agréments • double

  20. Stylistic Hybrids:The “Brandenburg” Concertos • French dance music • Keyboard arrangements of Italian concertos • The “Brandenburg Concertos” • assembled in 1722 in Cöthen • usually scored ensembles

  21. Stylistic Hybrids:The “Brandenburg” Concertos • The Fifth Brandenburg Concerto in D major [Anthology 1-87] • concertino: violin, transverse flute, written-out harpsichord part • cembalo solo senzastromenti (the harpsichord alone without instruments)

  22. Handel’s Instrumental Music • 2 dozen concertos grosso • Solo organ concertos • Orchestral suites • “Handel’s Celebrated Water Musick” (1717) • “The Musick for the Royal Fireworks” (1749)

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