[Jacopo Peri, one of the inventors of opera, wondering why he is not featured in open-note Quiz 6 (Baroque Music), 12noon, Thursday, July 5, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon, CA]
D, A, E Major / E Minor
Three Genres in Baroque Music, and Their Typical Movements
Opera
Overture
Recitative
Aria (Duet, Trio, Quartet, etc.)
Chorus
(etc.)
Suite
Overture
Dance I
Dance II
(etc.)
Concerto
Fast
Slow
Fast
Birth-Death Years for J.S. Bach, and
Three Stylistic Periods (Cities of Activity) - Types of Music Written in Each
J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Weimar - Organ
Cothen - Instrumental
Leipzig - Vocal
Listening
Claudio Monteverdi - Vespers: I. Deus in Adjutorium (I. God Come to My Aid)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GYjNj75MFI
(John Eliot Gardiner early-music version -- with Vocal Score!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Monteverdi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespro_della_Beata_Vergine
http://imslp.org/wiki/Vespro_della_Beata_Vergine,_SV_206_(Monteverdi,_Claudio)
(Full Score)
Heinrich Schutz - Saul, Saul
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/heinrich-schutz-1585-1672-saul.html
(N.B. Best heard/viewed on Firefox)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Schütz
https://www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/43mym9/heinrich_schutz_saul_saul_was_verfolgst_du_mich/
http://imslp.org/wiki/Saul%2C_Saul%2C_was_verfolgst_du_mich%3F%2C_SWV_415_(Sch%C3%BCtz%2C_Heinrich)
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas: When I Am Laid in Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGQq3HcOB0Y
(OK version, preceeded by recit. Thy Hand, Belinda [about a minute] with Vocal / Bass Line Score)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeB4cpRq16M
(Dramatic version)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Purcell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dido_and_Aeneas
http://imslp.org/wiki/Dido_and_Aeneas,_Z.626_(Purcell,_Henry)
Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria: I. Gloria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQx2TWgxX14
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Vivaldi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_(Vivaldi)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Gloria_in_D_major,_RV_589_(Vivaldi,_Antonio)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Fugue in G Minor ("Little")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Kq60w-AXk
(with Score!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue_in_G_minor,_BWV_578
George Frideric Handel - Messiah: Hallelujah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4LDVrnAQeo
(Keyboard-Vocal Score)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iXmIjpGsGc&p=FA3F0EFACB26D72D&playnext=1&index=2
(Live Early-Music performance)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_(Handel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_Part_II
http://imslp.org/wiki/Messiah,_HWV_56_(Handel,_George_Frideric)
(Full Score - 44. Hallelujah, at bottom of listings)
***
How about a little Red Violin, Music Historians? --
with the
skies still a
surreal hue from the Lake-Napa-Yolo County Fire,
but getting better in
place and time for
another
stroll on the DVC San Ramon to Mt. Diablo Route,
now walking from Foothill Summit Bend,
north,
downslope to Dan Cook Canyon.
Who, one may ask, was Dan Cook (c. 1825-1883)?
Evidently originally from Genesse, NY, Dan went west with his older brother Seth, working in Montana, Idaho, and California mines. They met John Boyd in Virginia City, and all three were well-established in the Nevada mining industry by 1870. In 1876 the group purchased a low-producing mine in Bodie (CA) for $75,000 which proved to be a bonanza (the stock shares shot up from $3.75 in December 1877, to $53 in July 1878). They sold out in the early 1880 and moved to San Francisco.
Sometime before this, Dan had married the daughter of Big-Four Railroad lawer David Doughty Colton (1832-1878), and inherited Colton's ranch near Danville (re Daniel Inman, who purportedly named it after his mother's hometown of Danville, VA).
Meanwhile the Cook brothers' father, Ira, had settled in San Rafael. Dan and Seth evidently took charge in lanscaping family holdings around what was later named Boyd Park -- for crony John, who had been introduced to their father's granddaughter, Louise Cook Arner, married her two weeks after Dan's death in 1883 at San Francisco's
Colton Mansion (destroyed in the 1906 earthquake, and now a park adjacent to Grace Cathedral --
note Charles Crocker's
spite fence around Nicholas Yung's holdings [1880-1904]), and been gifted the
Boyd Gate House, which serves as San Rafael's historical museum to the present day.
Dan's Danville ranch was passed to Seth, and thence to Louise Cook Arner Boyd, frequented as a summer home by her daughter, the polar explorer Louise Arner Boyd --
the present property now held by Diablo Country Club,
near those six promontories of Fossil Ridge traversed by South Gate Road....
98th
day
of
summer,
high down 7 to 84 (San Ramon, 75 ; the heated base of Mt. Diablo, 77), editing page 22 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act II...
also beginning Dan Cook Canyon: Six Tethered Tales 'Round Danville, CA, Op. 285 (2018), with
I. Goodbye God, I'm Going to Bodie (Dan Cook Strikes It Rich / The Open Bar)...
