Chapter 22 Grace and Grandeur: The Baroque Dance Suite
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The document discusses Baroque instruments and the Baroque dance suite. It provides details on instrument designs and materials used in the Baroque era. It then describes the typical structure of a Baroque dance suite, including common dances and forms. It highlights two notable Baroque suites: Handel's Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. The Water Music suite included a "Hornpipe" movement, described as a lively sailors' dance written in binary form. The document also briefly mentions other Baroque suites by Jacquet de la Guerre, Couperin, and Bach.
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Chapter 22 Grace and Grandeur: The Baroque Dance Suite
- 1. THE ENJOYMENT OF MUSIC ESSENTIAL LISTENING EDITION by Kristine Forney Andrew Dell’Antonio Joseph Machlis THIRD EDITION Lecture Slides
- 2. Chapter 22 Grace and Grandeur: The Baroque Dance Suite
- 3. Baroque Instruments • The Rise of Instrumental Music • Early- vs. late-Baroque instrumentation
- 4. • Instrument designs were improved • Finest violins in history came from shops of – Stradivarius – Guarneri – Amati • Violin strings made of gut • Woodwinds made of wood • Horns and trumpets: valveless, called “natural” • Timpani Baroque Instruments
- 5. The Baroque Suite • Dance Suites – “Stylized” collection of dances intended for listening rather than dancing – Derived from various types of dances that were in fashion – Core Dances: Allemande(Ger), Courante(Fr), Sarabande(Sp), Gigue(Irish) – Other dances: Bourée, minuet, gavotte, loure, polonaise, passepied – Might include prelude or overture – Customary for all to be written in the same key, faster dances contrast with slower – Repeated sections; embellished on repeat – Binary form
- 6. Handel and the Orchestral Suite • Water Music • Music for the Royal Fireworks--written to celebrate the peace treaty that ended the War of Austrian Succession Two notable suites by Handel
- 7. George Frideric Handel Water Music • Written for a riverboat party given by English King George I--July 17, 1717 • The entire piece is a suite--series of dance movements Twenty-two numbers • Performed without continuo • Divided into three suites • Movement presented here: – Hornpipe--a lively dance in triple meter, often associated with sailors
- 8. Binary Form • Two sections, each repeated – ||: A :||: B :|| • Tonic key to related key New key ---> tonic • A section starts in tonic and modulates; B section starts in the new key and goes back to the tonic key. • Usually based on a single theme, manipulated in various ways; little actual contrasting material.
- 9. More About the Hornpipe • Timbre: Winds vs. Strings • Handel did not specify which instruments should play. – In the Hornpipe performers used a different orchestration each time the binary form was presented. – Orchestration--manner in which various instruments are assigned to musical lines
- 10. Other Baroque Suites • Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre--Suite in D Minor--for harpsichord • Francois Couperin--many suites for harpsichord • Johann Sebastian Bach--Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major (Air on a G String)
- 13. by Kristine Forney Andrew Dell’Antonio Joseph Machlis Lecture Slides SECOND EDITION THE ENJOYMENT OF MUSIC ESSENTIAL LISTENING EDITION http://wwnorton.com/web/enjoyess2
Editor's Notes
- ■ In the Baroque era, instruments were greatly improved and featured in several large-scale genres, including the suite (a collection of dances). ■ The Baroque suite is a group of dances, usually in the same key, with each piece in binary form (A-A-B-B) or ternary form (A-B-A). ■ Handel’s best-known orchestral suites are Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks.
- “If music be the food of love, play on.” —William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night During the Baroque era, instrumental music became as important as vocal music for the first time in history. Great virtuosos such as Bach on the organ or Vivaldi on the violin raised the technique of playing to new heights. Early Baroque composers did not specify instrumentation. Late Baroque composers began to choose instruments according to timbre desired, and wrote the music in a way that showcased the best quality of the instrument.
- Instrument designs became more precise, and the art of orchestration began to blossom. One dramatic improvement occurred in the construction of string instruments. Some of the finest violins ever built were from the workshops of Stradivarius, Guarneri, and Amati. Many of these violins are still in circulation and are currently worth millions of dollars.
- Handel wrote two notable orchestral suites: Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. Artwork: Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto) (1697–1768), a royal sortie on the Thames River in London
- Listening Guide 10—Handel: Water Music, Suite in D Major, II