Discovering Music Listening Guide – 5

Required Works

John Dowland

“Flow My Tears” (c. 1600)
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Claudio Monteverdi

Toccata from Orfeo (1609)
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Suggested Works

Gabrieli

Giovanni Gabrieli

Magnificat a 14 (1615)
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Gesualdo da Venosa

Questa crudele e pia, W4.30, Fourth Book of Madrigals (1611)
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George Frederick Handel

“And with His Stripes We Are Healed,” Chorus from Messiah, HWV 56 (1741)
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“I Know that My Redeemer Liveth,” Aria from Messiah, HWV 56 (1741)
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“With Rage I Shall Burst” (No. 27), Aria from Saul, HWV 53 (1738)
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Clement Janequin

Chant des oiseaux (c. 1529)
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Josquin des Prez

Missa L’homme armé (c. 1495)
(Josquin composed two masses on the L’homme armé cantus firmus.)
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Claudio Monteverdi

Orfeo
Prologue
Shepherd’s Chorus, Act I
Possente spiritu, Act III

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L’incoronazione di Poppea (1642)
Pur ti Miro, Act III
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Lagrime d’amante al sepolcro dell’amata, a 5 (A Lover’s Tears at the Tomb of His Beloved) (c. 1614)
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Thomas Morley

“Now Is the Month of Maying” (Madrigal)
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Johann Pachelbel

Canon and Gigue in D major for Three Violins and Basso Continuo (1680)
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Thomas Weelkes

“As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending” (Madrigal) (1601)
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