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Chapter 3, Opera’s Beginnings
Dalle pio alte sfere
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Ahi case acerbo!
Tu se’ morta
Possente spirito
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- http://javanese.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/2/21/IMSLP310353-PMLP21363-monteverdi_orfeo2.pdf
- ‘Ahi case acerbo!’ pp. 56-62
- ‘Tu se’ morta’ pp. 62-64
- ‘Possente spirito’ pp. 84-99
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Chapter 4, Music and Religion
Hodie completi sunt
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Quam pulchra es
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Anima mi ache pensi
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Eile mich, Gott, zu erretten
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Mein Sohn, warum hast du uns das getan?
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This is the record of John
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Chapter 5, Instrumental Music
The Queens Command
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The King of Denmark’s Galiard” from Varietie of Lute-Lessons
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Tombeau de Mesangeau
Suite 6 from Banchetto musicale, courante
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Sonata Sesta a 2
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Chapter 6, Opera in Italy, 1637–1680
Come dolci, Signor, come soave” from Poppea
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“Pur ti miro” from Poppea
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- http://petrucci.mus.auth.gr/imglnks/usimg/9/91/IMSLP56258-PMLP69659-Monteverdi_Poppea_SV308_Act3.pdf pp. 246-250
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“Dell’antro magico” from Giasone
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Act 2, Scene 13, “Isifile, Medea, Giasone” from Giasone
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- http://conquest.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/d/dc/IMSLP61235-PMLP44048-Cavalli_Giasone_ActII-4.pdf
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“Intorna all’idol mio” from Orontea
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Chapter 7 - Church, State, and Spectacle in France
“French overture” from Phaeton
“"Le sort de Phaëton se découvre à mes yeux," from Phaeton
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"Protée en a trop dit" from Phaeton
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“O Dieu qui lancez le Tonnerre" from Phaeton
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“Tombeau for Monsier Lully “
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“Prelude in D, Pièces de clavecin”
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“De profundis“
“L’âme en peine,” Troisième livre de pièces de clavecin
“Sustinuit anima mea”
“Requiem aeternum”
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Chapter 8, Restoration England
“O Sing unto the Lord”
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- http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011680917 (US access only)
- http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100159490, vol. 17, p. 139 (US access only)
“Trio Sonata in A Minor (Z. 794)”
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- http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100159490 vol. 5 (US access only)
- http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002061137 (US access only)
The Fairy-Queen. Act 1, No. 14. Night, “See, see, see even Night is here” to end masque
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Chapter 9, Music for the Stage in Europe’s Big Cities
“Ah! Crudel il pianto mio” from Rinaldo
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"Or la tromba," from Rinaldo
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“An old woman cloathed in gray” for Polly Peacham and Filch’s “The bonny gray-ey’d morn,” Airs 1-2 from The Beggar’s Opera
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“Tristes apprêts” from Castor et Pollux
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Chapter 10, The Concerto
“Concerti grossi, Opus 6, no. 1”
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“Grand Concertos, Op. 6, no. 5”
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“L’estro armonico Opus 3, no. 3”
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“Italian Concerto, BWV 971”
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Chapter 11, Johann Sebastian Bach in His Time and Ours
“Prelude and Fugue no. 21 in B-flat Major”
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“Wachet auf! BWV 140”
Chorus, “Wachet auf”
Recitative, “Er kommt, er kommt”
Aria Duet, “Wann kommst du, mein Heil”
Aria Duet, “Mein Freund ist mein”
Chorus, “Gloria, sei dir gesungen”
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- http://javanese.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/6/67/IMSLP01394-BWV0140.pdf
- pp. 251-268: Chorus, “Wachet auf”
- pp. 268: Recitative, “Er kommt, er kommt”
- pp. 268-274: Aria Duet, “Wann kommst du, mein Heil”
- pp. 279-283: Aria Duet, ”Mein Freund ist mein”
- p. 284: Chorus, ”Gloria, sei dir gesungen”