Music 242 Music History II:
Topics in Baroque and Classical Music
Steve Saunders
Course Syllabus and Study Aids
- Download Syllabus for MU242 (pdf format)
- Course Reserves for MU242 (at Bixler Art and Music Library Service Desk)
- Website for Text: Taruskin, Oxford History of Western Music, College Edition
- Listening Assignments for MU242, pg. 1: Bach, Vivaldi, Handel
- Listening Assignments for MU242, pg. 2: Early Classical Era, Haydn
- Listening Assignments for MU242, pg. 3: Mozart
- Listening Assignments for MU242, pg. 4: Beethoven, Early Romantics
On-Line Reserves
- Connect to Colby MU 242 Electronic Reserves (via Moodle)
Library of Congress Resources
- Main Page: Anthologies from the Library of Congress Music Division
- PDF of Motet manuscript: Library of Congress, M1490.M88 Case
- Catalog record for manuscript, M1490.M88 Case
- PDF of Printed Bibliography: Anthologies of Musical Works . . . in the Library of Congress
- Online Catalog of the Library of Congress
- Table of Contents Spreadsheet
- Douay-Rheims Bible Online (with searchable Latin Vulgate)
- Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant
- List of Books of the Bible in Douay-Rheims Translations
- Divinum Officium Project: Texts for the Divine Office from several breviaries
- New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Oxford Music On-line)
- Music Research Guide: Colby Libraries
- RISM Database (International Inventory of Musical Sources)
- Catalogue of Motets, Mass, Office, and Holy Week Music Printed in Italy, 1516-1770, compiled by Jeffrey Kurtzman and Anne Schnoebelen
- Printed Sacred Music Database, 1500-1900
- MU242: Select List of Bibliographic Sources
- Colleen Reardon, Edition of "Two Motets for Soprano and Basso Continuo"
- Link to Cavallotti/Caibabri, "Scelti dei motetti" (Rome, 1665) from Bibliotheque nationale, Paris
- Link to file of complete Rolla, "Teatro musicale" (Milan, 1653) from the British Library