Two page: one page for essay, one page for listening test

WATCH & LISTEN: Watch the two videos and listen to period examples on all of your CDs.

RESEARCH ON THE WEB – ESSAY: Discuss opera houses in Venice during Monteverdi’s time, their mechanical abilities, performance practices and their audience, and how this has shaped the modern Broadway musical.

(NOTE: This is not an assignment about Monteverdi or his music.)

LISTENING ASSIGNMENT: Identify the 5 musical examples for PART III.

MONTEVERDI L’Orfeo (1/12)

Duration: (10:25) User: veraeikon – Added: 4/8/09

YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ_mjTTDM5A

MONTEVERDI LOrfeo (1978) This 1987 production is an excellent view into the elaborate staging and consumes of the time.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, directionJean-Pierre Ponnelle, direction Philippe Huttenlocher (Orfeo)Dietlinde Turban (Euridice)Trudeliese Schmidt (Music, Hope)Roland Hermann (Apollo)Glenys Linos (Messenger, Proserpina)Werner Gröschel (Plutone)Hans Franzen (Caronte)Peter Keller (First Shepherd)Francisco Araiza (Second Shepherd, First Spirit)Ballet de l’Opéra de ZürichChoeur de l’Opéra de ZürichDas Monteverdi ensemblePet Halmen, costumes

Video：Toccata & Fugue in d minor (BACH, JS)

Duration: (9:57) User: cphayles – Added: 1/9/07