Lectures

Lectures & Handouts
by Dr. Richard Kolb

Spring 2024 - Dramatick Opera

1. Lecture

Fall 2023: English Theater Music c. 1690-1710

1. Lecture

Spring 2023: Roman Opera Survey

1. Lecture: Overview; La Catena d’Adone, 1626 (D. Mazzocchi); Erminia sul Giordano, 1633 (M. Rossi); Il Palazzo Incantato, 1642 (L. Rossi)

Fall 2022: Chamber Music in Rome c. 1620-1660

1. Lecture 1: Intro and examples
2. Lecture 2: Vocal & Instrumental Music: Michi/Savioni/Violin
3. Handout 1: Roman Vocal Chamber Music Overview

Spring 2022: Monteverdi in His Letters

1. Handout-Monteverdi life events
2. Monteverdi Letters Pt. 1-Cremona & Mantua 1567-1608
3. Monteverdi Letters Pt. 2-Mantua 1604-1611
4. Monteverdi Letters Pt. 3-1611-1615 Mantua and Venice
5. Monteverdi Letters Pt. 4-July 1615-January 1620
6. Monteverdi Letters Pt. 5-January 1620 to Feb. 1626

Spring 2021: Various topics

1. Lecture 1: Pietro Della Valle
2. Lecture 2: André Maugars

Fall 2020: Various topics

1. Lecture: Printing & Notation
2. Lecture: Vincenzo Giustiniani and the Roman Scene
3. Handout 1: Francesca Caccini
4. Handout 2: Vincenzo Giustiniani, Discorso sopra la musica (1628)-Transl. RK

Spring 2020: The Lament

1. Handout 1-The Lament during the Late 16th and Early 17th Centuries
2. Handouts 2/3-Monteverdi’s Lamento d’Arianna

Fall 2019: Poetic Forms of the 16th and 17th Centuries

1. Handout 1-Versification
2. Handout 2-Sonetto
3. Handout 3-Ottava rima-strambotto
4. Handout 4-Arie per cantar ottave
5. Handout 5-Canzonetta
6. Handout 6-Terza rima-Trionfo-Capitolo

SSpring 2019: English Music Theatre c. 1600-c.1710

Handout 1-Masque 1600 to 1649
Handout 2-Masque vs. opera 1650 to 1700
Handout 3-Italian opera in England, c. 1690-1710

Fall 2018: English Theater Music c. 1642-1688

1. Civil War, Commonwealth, Restoration (lecture)
2. Handout 1: Composers Pt. 1
3. Handout 2: Foreign composers
4. Handout 3: John Blow & Henry Purcell