Syllabus for Choral Reperoire
Course Number: MUP 458
Course Name: Choral Repertoire
Meeting Time:
Section 001: F 1:00-1:50
Instructor: Dr. Tod Fish
Office: Music 126b
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: x1148
Office Hours: by appointment
Location: Music 153
**Instructor reserves right to change syllabus if it is deemed necessary**
Course Description
1) We will study a wide variety of music from both the sacred and secular genres.
2) We will analyze strengths and pitfalls of each piece of music viewed.
Course Objectives
As a result of taking this course:
1. Students will have a wide survey of music on the UIL Prescribed Music List
2. Students will have a basic knowledge of repertoire from five musical periods
3. Students will understand how to put together both a concert and UIL Program.
Required Texts:
3-inch, three-ring binder – All Music will be kept in this binder and turned in as part of
your final examination
Suggested texts:
Oxford Book of English Madrigals
Oxford Book of French Chanson
Oxford Book of Italian Madrigals
King’s Singers Madrigals Vol. 1
The Choral Experience – Ray Robinson
A Survey of Choral Music – Homer Ulrich
Website:
cpdl.org (Choral Public Domain Library)
imslp.org (another public domain site)
Syllabus for Choral Reperoire
Grading
Your grade will consist of the following elements:
70% - Attendance
20% - Turned in binder with Music divided and in order
10% - Four Years worth of UIL
Grading Scale Based on Points:
90 - 100
80 – 89
70 – 79
60 – 69
Below 60
A
B
C
D
F
Attendance – 70%
This course is one where you will have to attend to get the full effect. It is basically a
survey of the choral repertoire from the mid -15th century through contemporary
music. This class is awesome; why would you want to miss?! There will be ZERO
unexcused absences permitted. Each one will result in the loss of a letter grade.
Binders submitted-20%
You are to collect and catalogue EVERY piece of music handed out to the class. You
must divide it according to the different classifications listed on the weekly activities
of the syllabus.
Four Years Worth of UIL Programs – 10%
Please submit FOUR years worth of UIL Programs. At a four-year high school, you
are only allowed to repeat pieces every four years, so we need four years of programming. I
want you to put together DIVERSE programs that incorporate all five of the time periods and
the divisions of the classifications. Try to avoid ALL sacred or ALL secular programs.
Date
1/17
Topic
Course Intro:
Listening to examples of
UIL programs
Young programs
Intermediate programs
Advanced programs
TOPIC
How to program
your choirs for UIL
or other concerts
1/24
Secular Renaissance
Music:
English Madrigal:
Italian Madrigal:
April is in My Mistress’ Face
Now is the Month of Maying Morley
Il bianco e dolce cigno Arcadelt
Si ch’io vorrei morire –
Monteverdi
O occhi manza mia
El grillo – Di Lasso
Important Notice
Syllabus for Choral Reperoire
The Silver Swan – Gibbons
Weep, O Mine Eyes - Bennett
Fair Phyllys - Farmer
Cont…
Balletto/Ballett
Amor Vittorioso –
Gastoldi
Fyer, Fyer - Morley
1/31
Secular Renaissance
Music
Spanish Villancico:
La mi sola Laureola – Ponce
Trist’Espana - Encina
Fata la parta – Encina
German Secular:
Vitrum nostrum gloriosum
Innsbruch, ich muss dich lassenIsaac
Tanzen und Springen- Hassler
2/7
Renaissance Motets:
Josquin Generation:
Gustate et videte - Isaac
Verbum caro factum est Compere
Tu solus qui facis mirabilia
Ave Maria – Josquin
French Chanson:
Margot Labourez les
vignes – Arcadelt
Mon Coeur se
recommande a vous –
Lassus
Je ne lose dire – Certon
Mille regrets – Josquin
Il est bel et bon –
Passereau
Tant que vivrai
Il me souffit - Sermisy
Puer natus est – Morales
Magi veniunt ab oriente
Crux fidelis – Clemens
Non Papa
If Ye Love Me
O Nata Lux – Tallis
Post-Josquin
Generation:
Alleuia – Taverner
Regina Caeli
2/12
Renaissance Motets:
Latter part of the Period:
Sicut Vervus – Palestrina
O vos omnes – Victoria
O magnum mysterium
Timor et tremor – Lassus
Surrexit pastor bonus
Shir Hama’a lot –Rossi
Beat viscera
Ave Verum – Byrd
O sacrum convivium
In Monte Oliveti – Croce
Rorate Coeli – Guerrero
Christus factus est Anerio
Adoramus te, Christe –
Monteverdi
Verbum caro factum est –
Hassler
Gloria in excelsis Deo –
Weelkes
Wednesday Class due to
TMEA!!!
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2/21
Early Baroque Sacred
In ecclesiis
Jubilate Deo – Gabrieli
Hodie Chrisus natus est
Psalm 96 – Sweelinck
Beatus vir – Monteverdi
Surrexit Christus Hodie Scheidt
Plorate filii Isarael – Carissimi
Cantate Domino
Ehre sei dir, Christe
Lord, Who is My Guide
but Thee – Schütz
Later Baroque:
Bach/Handel
Cantate Domino - Buxtehude
2/28
Christlag in
Todesnbanden
Die mit tränen säen –
Schein
Thou Knowest Lord, the Secrets
of Our Hearts – Purcell
Zadok the Priest
Werfet Panier – Telemann
Hallelujah, Amen –
Handel
Exultate Deo - Scarlatti
Erschallet BWV 172
Gloria
Domine filli unigenite – Vivaldi
Cantata BWV 50
Deposuit potentes - Durante
Lobet den Herrn BWV
230
Sanctus in d minor
Break forth, O Beauteous
Heavenly Light – Bach
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3/7
Classical
Domine ad adjuvandum me
festina – Martini
Mozart Secular:
Mozart Sacred:
Motets:
Ave verum
Sancta Maria
Se lontan ben mio tu sei
Milagnero tacendo
Luci cara, luci bella
Ecco, quell fiero
Movements from
extended works and
some extended
works:
Placdido e’il mar
Dixit
Laudate pueri K. 339
Te Deum
Regina Coeli
Kyrie Missa Brevis in Bflat
Classical
Haydn:
3/22
Te Deum 1
Te Deum 2
Achieved is They Glorious Work
The Heaven’s are Telling from
Creation
Gloria Mass in the Time of War
Gloria from Heiligmesse
3/29
Haydn cont…
Alles hat seine Zeit
Beethoven:
Hallelujah
Kyrie from Mass in C
Cherubini:
Sanctus from Requiem
Veni Jesu
Bridging the Gap:
Schubert Sacred:
Mendelssohn
Sacred:
Salve Regina
Tantum ergo
Magnificat
Kyrie
Gloria from Mass in G
Heilig, Heilig, Heilig from
Deutsche Messe
Frohlocket
Jauchzet dem Herrn
Heilig
Secular Part Songs:
Die Nachtigal
Neujahrslied
Im walde
Secular Part Songs:
Den Tanz
Lebenslust
Hirtenchor
4/4
Romantic Secular Part
Songs:
Neckerein
Sehnsucht
O schöne nach
Der Abend - Brahms
Zigeunerleben - Schumann
As Torrents in Summer – Elgar
Abendlied – Rheinberger
See the Chariot at Hand –
Vaughan Williams
Extended Works:
Liebeslieder Walzer: 3
movts 8,10, 11 most
popular - Brahms
Nanie - Brahms
Submit a practice
example of a UIL
program
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4/11
Romantic Sacred:
Cantique de Jean Racine
Tantum ergo – Faure
Lass dich nur dich
O Heilland Reiss – Brahms
Enosh – Lewandowski
Os justi
Locus iste – Bruckner
Bogoroditse devo –
Rachmaninov
Ave verum – Elgar
Duh Tvoy blagiy –
Chenokov
There Shall a Star Come Out of
Jacob
He Watching Over Israel Mendelssohn
4/16
20th/21st centuries
The Blue Bird
Beati quorum via - Stanford
Lullay My Liking - Holst
Song of Democracy - Hanson
Blagoslovim dushe moya,
Ghospoda – IppolitovIvanov
Like as the Culver on the
Bared Bough – Stevens
Christmas Cantata –
Pinkham
Come to Me, My Love
Jubilant Song – Dello
Joio
Start to compile four
years worth of UIL
programs 
WEDNESDAY CLASS
DUE TO EASTER!!!
Durufle – Ubi caritas
4/25
20th/21st centuries
Dieu, qui la fait – Debussy
Hodie
Exultate Deo – Poulenc
Ave Maria – Stravinsky
The Coolin
Sure on this Shining Night –
Barber
5/2
Jubilate Deo
Festival Te Deum
Chorale after an old
French Carol – Britten
The Lamb – Tavener
Bernstein – The Lark
Stomp Your Foot Copland
Folks Still Alive
What Sweeter Music – Rutter
Solfeggio – Pärt
Lux Aurumque
A Boy and a Girl – Whitacre
Water Night
Ave Verum - Stoppford
Afternoon on a Hill –
Barnum
My Flight for Heaven –
Henson
Dirait – ton
O Magnum
O nata lux
Let the River Run Johnson
*****SUBJECT TO CHANGE*********
Turn in Binders after
class
Turn in four years worth
of UIL programs after
class