The Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, The Buchmann-Mehta School of Music


Course: Keyboard Music until 1750

Annual, 2018-2019

Lesson, 2 hours weekly course

The course will be held in English.

Lecturer: Prof. Alexander Gorin
Tel: --------
Email: goral@post.tau.ac.il

Reception time: by appointment.

 

Course requirements:                                                                                                                Regular attendance, listening quiz and oral exam in I and II semesters (detailed information regarding listening quiz and exam will be given on the very first lesson and will be available on the site of the course from the very beginning of the course).

Description of course
The course will deal with a survey of solo keyboard literature from the baroque period.

Course topics                                                                                                                                     The main subjects are – keyboard instruments of the period – organ, cembalo, clavichord; composers, musical forms, genres and styles in keyboard music in Western Europe before 1750. Special attention will be devoted to keyboard music by J.S. Bach.

Grading Summary
oral exam 70% (35% in I semester and 35% in II semester)

listening quiz 30% (10% in I semester and 20% in II semester

Expected learning outcomes:

Students are supposed to get acquainted with keyboard music before 1750, to demonstrate familiarity with works, understanding of the development, genres and styles. Students also are supposed to improve ability to express themselves orally within the subject of the baroque keyboard music.

Bibliography
(reading is not mandatory, supplementary readings will be provided during the course):

Title

Author

Publisher

Year

Location

The New Grove early keyboard instruments / Edwin M. Ripin ... [et al.]

London : Macmillan

1989

AC1 ML549 NEW BOOK

The New Grove organ / Peter Williams, Barbara Owen

Williams, Peter F.

London : Macmillan

1988

AC1 ML550 WIL BOOK

The history of keyboard music to 1700 / Willi Apel ; translated and revised by Hans Tischler

Apel, Willi

Bloomington : Indiana University Press

1972

AC1 ML549 APE BOOK

Keyboard music before 1700 / edited by Alexander Silbiger

New York : Schirmer Books

1995

AC1 ML549 KEY BOOK

The keyboard music of J.S. Bach / David Schulenberg

Schulenberg, David

2nd edition

New York : Routledge 

2006

MUS MT145 BAC (SCHU) BOOK

The organ music of J.S. Bach / by Peter Williams

Williams, Peter F.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2^nd edition

2002

MUS MT 145 BAC (WIL) BOOK

Eighteenth - century keyboard music / edited by Robert L. Marshall

New York: Routledge

2003

ML705 EIG

Keyboard Music until 1750

Weekly Plan

Semester I

Theme

Week#/Lecture

Introduction, explanations. Keyboard instruments. Organ – how works.         

1

 Organ in the Clairmont Hall.                                   

2

Clavichord

3

Cembalo. Fortepiano. Keyboard instruments – nature, differences, sound production and means.                                                             

4

Italy – composers, genres. G. Frescobaldi – life, general characteristic.

5

Toccate Libro I, Preface. Fiori Musicali.

6

Germany – survey. D. Buxtehude – life, works.

7

France – survey. F. Couperin- life- works.                              

8

F. Couperin. L’Art de toucher le Clavecin. Table of embellishments. 6 Ordre.                     

9

J. Ph. Rameau – life, works.                                                                            

10

G.F. Handel – life, works.

11

D. Scarlatti – life.

12

D. Scarlatti. Sonatas – sources, catalogues, editions.

13

Semester II

J.S. Bach. Life.

1

J.S. Bach. Sources, catalogue, editions.  Education, teaching principals.

2

Clavierbuchlein for W.F. Bach, Inventions, Sinfonias.

3

Das wohltemperirte Clavier. 

4

Chromatic fantasia and fugue. Toccatas.

5

French Suites. English Suites.

6

Clavierübung. Partitas.

7

Clavierübung II. Italian Concerto.

8

Clavierübüng III.

9

Goldberg Variations.

10

Musikalisches Opfer. Die Kunst der Fuge. 

11

Die Kunst der Fuge. 

12

Summarizing/practicing answers for the exam.

13