Piano Literature
MUSC 5325
Professor Korevaar
English Virginalists
Assignment for Tuesday August 24, 2010
Read Silbiger, 1-21 (Introduction)
For Thursday, August 26:
Listen to:
John Bull: Walsingham (Fitzwilliam Vol. 1, p. 1; CD 15605 track 1)
William Byrd: Walsingham (Fitzwilliam Vol. 1, p. 267; CD 15340 track 14)
What kind of these pieces are these? How are Bull's and Byrd's
approaches
different?
Listen to a variety of pieces (different genres:
variations, grounds,
dances
, fantasias) from the three CDs: 15605, 15340, 8152. How are the
performers'
approaches the same/different? What do you think of the instruments
(read
the notes on these!)? Some recommendations:
Farnaby: Fantasia (FVB 231)
Peter Philips: Pavana Pagget and Galliard (FVB 74-75)
Farnaby's Dream (194, 195, 196, 273)
Read: Silbiger:
23-62.
Look at (skim) the forward to the Fitzwilliam Book (M21 F54
1949 v.1, v.2) (in vol.
1); also look at the facsimile included in the copy of Parthenia on
reserve
(M21 B9 P3 1951). Note the six-line staff (also in the original of
Fitzwilliam).
Also note the way ornaments are notated in each source.
Timeline:
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643); Byrd (1543- 1623); Bull (1562-1628);
Philips (1560-1628); Sweelinck (1562-1621); Farnaby (1563-1640); FVB
(compiled
by Francis Tregian [maybe] between 1609 and 1619); Giovanni Gabrieli
(1554ca-1612);
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643); Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667);
Bartolomeo
Cristofori (1655-1731) -- piano before 1711; Gottfried Silbermann
(1683-1753); Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1665-1746); Dietrich
Buxtehude
(1636-1707); Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722); JSBach (1685-1750); GFHandel
(1685-1759);
DScarlatti (1685-1757); Jean-Phillipe Rameau (1683-1764);
François
Couperin (1668-1733); WFBach (1710-1784); CPEBach (1714-1788); JCBach
(1735-1782);
Haydn (1732-1809); Mozart (1756-1791); Clementi (1752-1832); Dussek
(1760-1812);
Hummel (1778-1837); Beethoven (1770-1827); Schubert (1797-1828); Weber
(1786-1826); Berlioz (1803-1869); Mendelssohn (1809-1847)