1. Choose one composition from list of famous Baroque operas and oratorios and listen to it at least twice.
2. Describe the ways the music conveys the emotions or ideas of its accompanying storyline. Choose specific excerpts to highlight.
3. When describing the music in your post, write about at least three fundamental elements of music (melody, rhythm, texture, harmony, form), using key terms introduced in chapters 1 and 4 of your textbook. When you use these musical terms put them in bold.
Baroque Operas
• Monteverdi, Orpheus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8361qIY8wpk
• Monteverdi, The Coronation of Poppea.
o Act 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuGVdO0DurA
o Act 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJz9yfiUMdc
o Act 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKc-jw8uCIg
• Lully, Armide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zrbaEHomag
• Purcell, Dido and Aeneas https://stageagent.com/shows/opera/2009/armide/songs
• Handel, Julius Caesar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kjM2UoKYBw
• Gluck, Orpheus and Eurydice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXYgVoTwFcU
Baroque Oratorios
• Carissimi, Jepthe
o Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iybKwyX8-Vg
o Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrT19Ro9owg
• Handel, Messiah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-QV_I-xseA
• Handel, Esther https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBHc9Cd-by0
• Handel, Israel in Egypt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRUS-VwEJaw
