History of Baroque Music

obligatory courses

Classroom

A course devoted to the history of Western European music in the period 1600-1750. The lecture focuses mainly on the most important issues related to vocal and instrumental music, with a special emphasis on opera, in its different varieties and functions resulting from the specific political and cultural conditions of the most important European centres. The exercises cover issues related mainly to instrumental music in the Baroque era. Their aim is to discuss its basic forms (trio sonata, solo sonata, concerto grosso, solo concerto, etc.), the practice of basso continuo. The national styles of Italian, French and German would also be discussed, as well as their synthesis in the works of F. Couperin, J.S. Bach and G.F. Händel.

A course devoted to the history of Western European music in the period 1600-1750. The lecture focuses mainly on the most important issues related to vocal and instrumental music, with a special emphasis on opera, in its different varieties and functions resulting from the specific political and cultural conditions of the most important European centres. The exercises cover issues related mainly to instrumental music in the Baroque era. Their aim is to discuss its basic forms (trio sonata, solo sonata, concerto grosso, solo concerto, etc.), the practice of basso continuo. The national styles of Italian, French and German would also be discussed, as well as their synthesis in the works of F. Couperin, J.S. Bach and G.F. Händel.

Specific topics:

1. introduction to the era and its periodization; the idea of the basso continuo in Baroque music

2. the development and transformation of opera from the first Florentine drammi per musica via Mantua and Rome to Venice and its public theatres

4. the birth of oratorio in Rome (including dialogo volgare and latino) and the cantata

5. the genres of solo keyboard music - fantasia, canzona, toccata, partita, variations (G. Frescobaldi and the circle of his disciples); stylus phantasticus in German Baroque music

6. development of instrumental music in Italy: violin sonata, chamber works and concerto grosso by A. Corelli

7. music at the court of the Louis XIV: ballet de cour, comedie-ballet and tragedie en musique, the French harpsichord school

8. the Bolognese school and the development of the solo concerto with particular reference to the violin solo concerto in the works of A. Vivaldi

9. vocal and instrumental works of A. Vivaldi (mass movements, oratorio, operas)

10. works by J. S. Bach

11. works by G.F. Handel

1. A. Żórawska-Witkowska, Społeczny status muzyka w baroku (1580-1770), w: „Barok. Historia-Literatura-Sztuka” vi/1 (11) 1999.

2. Manfred Bukofzer, "Muzyka w epoce Baroku. Od Monteverdiego do Bacha" (tł. E.Dziębowska), Kraków 1970;

3. A. Szweykowska - Dramma per musica w teatrze Wazów, Kraków 1976

4. Z.M. Szweykowski, Historia muzyki XVII wieku t. 5 "Dramma per musica", Kraków 2008

5. D. Szlagowska, Muzyka baroku, Gdańsk 1998

6. M. Talbot, Vivaldi, Kraków 1988

7. Ch. Wolff, Bach. Muzyk uczony, Warszawa 2011

8. C. Hogwood, Handel, Kraków 2009

9. J.W. Hill, Baroque Music, NY, London 2005

10. Claude V. Palisca, Baroque Music, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1981

11. H.E. Smither, A History of the Oratorio, vol.1-2, Chapel Hill 1977

12. Sz. Paczkowski, Nauka o afektach w myśli muzycznej I połowy XVII wieku, Lublin 1998

13. Sz. Paczkowski, Styl polski w muzyce w muzyce Jana Sebastiana Bacha, Lublin 2011

14. P. Wilk, Sonata na skrzypce solo w siedemnastowiecznych Włoszech, Wrocław 2005

15. P. Wilk, Wenecki koncert instrumentalny w epoce Vivaldiego, Kraków 2014

Additional specific literature related to particular topics may be indicated in class.

Upon completion of the course the student should:

- know the basic terminology related to music cultivated in the Baroque era

- have a structured knowledge of selected topics in the history of Baroque music, such as the concepts of the periodization of the epoch, the activity of the most important composers with elements of biography, basic compositional styles and techniques, types of the most important musical forms and genres cultivated in the epoch with elements of knowledge about the performance practice of the time, characterised in a chronological perspective and the peculiarities of musical culture of the most important musical centres in Europe

- know the basic methods of analysis and interpretation of various musical creations of the Baroque period

- understand the specificity of Baroque musical language and its complexity, as well as historical and cultural variability within this epoch

- be able to search, analyse, evaluate, select and use information on the history of music in the Baroque period, making use of various bibliographical references

- be able to recognise and characterise different types of musical forms, genres and styles appropriate to the era (auditorily and from musical scores)

- have the ability to argue in a substantive manner, using other authors' views, and to formulate conclusions in relation to issues in the history of Baroque music

- have the ability to prepare oral presentations in Polish on specific topics related to the music of the Baroque

- be able to interact and work in a group, taking on a variety of roles,

- be aware of their own level of knowledge and skills in the field of Baroque music history and understand the need for post-graduate education in order to be able to fulfil their social responsibilities responsibly

The course concludes with an exam.

The preferred form of the exam is the written form. A condition for taking the exam in the History of Baroque Music is a successful completion of the exercises.

The erudite material required and enforced during the examination in the History of Baroque Music includes the topics realised during the lecture and exercises together with the readings indicated as obligatory.

At the discretion of the relevant authorities, it is possible to carry out the course online, as well as to pass the exercises and the exam via the university's platform Kampus-Egzaminy.

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