Audio Examples for The Sense of Music

Part 4. The Baroque Period

  1. Opera, Ballad Opera, and Oratorio

    1. Dido, How soft
    2. Handel, Piangero, piangero
    3. Cleopatra's first statement
    4. Agietero word-painting
    5. Gay, Revenge, revenge
    6. Comfort ye
    7. Saith your God
    8. Fire word-painting
    9. He shall feed his flock
    10. And he shall gather the lambs
    11. And carry them, tonal center
    12. Halleluja chorus motive 1
    13. Halleluja chorus motive 2
    14. Halleluja chorus motive 3
    15. Halleluja chorus motive 4
    16. Measures 19 and 30

  2. Secular Instrumental Music

    1. Scarlatti 1st measures
    2. Flamenco-like rhythm
    3. Measures 34-35, cadenza
    4. 6-note chord
    5. 11-note chord
    6. Il Cardellino ritornello theme
    7. Il Cardellino flute solo
    8. Il Cardellino motoric sequence
    9. Il Cardellino 2nd movement
    10. Il Cardellino ritornello theme, 3rd movement

  3. J. S. Bach

    1. Bach Fugue measure 52
    2. Bach Fugue chords created
    3. Starting simple phrase
    4. Second, longer phrase
    5. Second voice enters
    6. Measures 3 and 4, repeated Ds
    7. Final episode
    8. Oboe pattern
    9. Aria, upward-climbing theme
    10. Jesus with continuo
    11. Nervous excitement in violins
    12. Warlich, dieser ist Gottes Sohn
    13. Not Bach's version
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