Music Notes for 6th Grade Singing

Vocalise

MARCHESI. M No. 10.

CONCONE. G No. 20.

List B.

Baroque Era 1600-1750

The Baroque era saw the beginning of opera, the growth of the orchestra, and a flourishing of instrumental music, especially for the violin and keyboard. Most new fashions originated in Italy and Italian musicians dominated the field, but by the end of the period, distinctive national styles had evolved.

Alessandro Scarlatti 1660-1725 Wrote Le Violette

A maestro di cappella at 18, and with six successful operas performed in by 23, Scarlattis career had a remarkable start. He moved to Naples and by the 1690s was at the peak of his fame. By 1700 the city rivalled Venice as the leading operatic city, but Scarlatti was by then running into money problems partly due to his large family and in looking for freelance work, he often ignored his contractual duties. After problematic spells in Rome and Venice, he returned to Naples, but despite his fine reputation, his later, more complex operas achieved only a lukewarm success. Routinely called the founder of Neapolitan opera, it seems his style was mostly pan- Italian; only one of his 110 plus operas is Neapolitan in music and text. He dies in poverty, and is remembered as the father of the composer Domenico.

Key works - Operas

Telemaco Marco Attilio Regolo Griselda

Other composers in the Baroque Era

Johann Pachelbel Henry Purcell Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni Antonio Vivaldi George Frideric Handel Johann Sebastian Bach

List C.

Romantic Era 1810-1920

The Baroque era saw the beginning of opera, the growth of the orchestra, and a flourishing of instrumental music, especially for the violin and keyboard. Most new fashions originated in Italy and Italian musicians dominated the field, but by the end of the period, distinctive national styles had evolved.

Shumann, R. 1810-1856 Wrote Die Lotusblume

Music is fanciful, introspective, and bombastic, daringly original and frequently impractical Capture the innocent spirit of early German Romantic literature.

Key works
Symphony No 3 - orchestral Carnaval piano solo Piano quintet chamber Dichterliebe, Op 48. song cycle

Other composers in the Romantic Era

Franz Schubert Felix Mendelssohn Frederic Chopin Franz Liszt Johannes Brahms Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky