January 31 - Surprise Party

[Guess who's coming to  Music Theory for
Treble and Bass (Quiz 2), Thursday, February 7,
Diablo Valley College Music, Pleasant Hill, CA]


Eighth Note(s)

...Single, showing constituant parts

... Two Down-Beat / Up-Beat 8ths in Old Vocal Style vs. Instrumental / Contemporary Vocal Usage



F Lydian and Major (in Bass Clef, with Half Notes)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydian_mode

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_major



Major Scale Whole Step / Half Step Pattern (C)

 ... in Bass Clef, with Half Notes

... on a musical keyboard


Small Intervals (Quality and Number)

P1 (Perfect Unison) = 0 Steps, with 1 Letter Name

m2 (Minor Second) = 1/2 Step, with 2 Letter Names

M2 (Major Second) = 1 Step, with 2 Letter Names

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unison
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_second



More Notes in Treble and Bass Clef, including many on Ledger Lines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clef

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ledger_line



Keyboard / Singing

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2010/10/sol-bloom-1870-1949-snake-charmer.html



[Music referenced in Quiz 2]


Japan - Two Pentatonic Scales

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiraj%C5%8Dshi_scale


India - Raga Maru Bihag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7-D29IxHQo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raga

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bihag 


Athenaeus - First Delphic Hymn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8vvEbUzV2g
(performance by a contemporary brass ensemble + drums and electric guitar)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenaeus_(musician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_Hymns  (Notation)


Mesomedes of Crete - Hymn to the Sun

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/05/mesomenes-of-crete-b-c-ad-110.html


Gregorian Chant - Kyrie IV

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2540/01/gregory-i-540-604.html

***

Ah

this

great, industrious group of Music Theoreticians, to the boards again for Prime-Retrograde Melodies,

followed

by

Quiz 1,

on

this

the

30th

day

of

spring

high

 back

up

3

to

 66

locally and in

Fairfield (ABA of 66-63-66 last 3 days) --

Pleasant Hill, 65 --

following up on a second Pony Express Trail walk,

just a shorty from the

Vacaville Carl's Jr. on Orange across the intersection of Nut Tree Road,

downslope to Olive Garden Parking,

then returning over the

I-80 Bridge,

precipituously downward through sagebrush

towards

point

of

origin.

Upon arrival home,

edit page 42 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act IV, and compose pages 15 / 6 re

The Decameron, Op. 289
100 Novels for Voices and Instruments, after the work (1353) of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
Tenth Day / Novel VIII
Sophronia, albeit she deems herself wife to Gisippus, is wife to Titus Quintius Fulvus

and

Broke Dance Suite, Op. 290
IVb4. Bear Dance (Au Naturel)

January 30 - Twang and Tweet

[Early Egyptians marching towards Music Appreciation Quiz 2 (Ancient Music),
Wednesday, February 6, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon, CA]



 F Lydian and Major (in Bass Clef, with Half Notes)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydian_mode

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_major



Major Scale Whole Step / Half Step Pattern (C)

... in Bass Clef, with Half Notes

... on a musical keyboard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitone



Four Texures of Music 


Monophonic - One line of music, strictly performed

Heterophonic - One line of music, freely performed

Polyphonic - More than one line of music, with lines of equal importance

Homophonic - More than one line of music, with one line more important than the others

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_(music)



Listening


California (Yurok) - Women's Brush Dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDIJYCI5lU0

http://www.yuroktribe.org/culture/history/brushdance.htm
(background on the dance, but we should write on the music)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/native-americans-in-california-c-8000.html
(with notation)


China - Entrance Hymn for the Emperor

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/05/king-kang-of-chou-reigned-1021-996-bc.html
(Recording and Notation)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBbOYeIxBhM
(alternative video)


Seikilos - Epitaph

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwYQ_bmkbZs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilos_epitaph (Notation)

***

Second session of Music History,

with Quiz 1 --

a

scenic

commute

down

80 /

680

into

a

surprisingly

sun-

and-

high-

fog

Contra Costa,

and

thereafter

out

for

another walk on the DVCSR-to-Pleasant-Hill walk,

taking a jaunt Alamedia Diablo from

Palms House

to

Junction

La

Cadena,

and

dutiful

return,

on

the

29th

day

of

spring,

high

down

3

to

63

Pleasant Hill / Danville, 66
San Ramon, 61
Pinole, 62
Fairfield, 67

homeward

to

edit page 41 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act IV, and compose pages 14 / 5

The Decameron, Op. 289
100 Novels for Voices and Instruments, after the work (1353) of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
Tenth Day / Novel VIII
Sophronia, albeit she deems herself wife to Gisippus, is wife to Titus Quintius Fulvus

Broke Dance Suite, Op. 290
IVb4. Bear Dance (Au Naturel)