(Music Appreciation -- what a bright idea!... with Quiz 1 sometime after 11:10am, Wednesday, January 30, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon, CA)
C Major Scale (Treble Clef on a Staff in Whole Notes) (Wikipedia Links for your reference)
(Letter Names and Numbers above)
(Solfege Syllables below)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_major
Musical Keyboard Letter Names
(1/2 step = adjacent notes on a keyboard -- white-to-black; black-to-white;
or white-to-white, if no intervening black note)
(# = Sharp raises a white note 1/2 step, b = Flat lowers a white note 1/2 step)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_keyboard
Five Basic Ways of Producing Sound
Wind (Aerophone) - (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Trumpet)
Solid-Body (Idiophone) - (Woodblock, Cymbal)
Drum (Membranophone) - (Timpani)
String (Chordophone) - (Harp, Piano, Violin)
Electricity (Electrophone) - (Synthesizer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_instrument_classification#Mahillon_and_Hornbostel-Sachs_systems
Listening
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: I. Introduction
(Thus Spake Zarathustra: I. Sunrise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETveS23djXM (0.00 - 1:43)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Strauss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Also_sprach_Zarathustra_(Strauss)
Gustav Holst - The Planets: I. Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGGlL1wexQk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Holst
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets
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Well, here we are --
a fantastic group for Music Appreciation, Spring 2018, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon, CA,
on
the
27th
day
of
spring,
high
down
6
to
64,
taking
to
the
DVCSR-to-Pleasant-Hill-west-of-Mt.-Diablo route once again,
now on Alameda Diablo from the junction of El Nido / Calle los Callados
to
Palms
Bend
and
back.
After
this
straightforward
journey,
an
unexpectedly
circuitous
return,
to
edit
new-edition page 39 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act IV, and compose pages 12 / 3
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) --
+ general catch-up...
some of this over quite an extensive playlist of world and
early musics...
