[A universe of sounds, in preparation for Quiz 1, to be given in Music Theory, c. 9:30am, Thursday, January 31, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA]
Treble Clef, on a 5-Line Staff (plural - Staves) (Wikipedia links for your reference)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clef
Measures and Bar Lines (Single and Double)
N.B.
a thin double bar (not pictured above) can serve as a section break
a (thick) double bar (above) can also called be called an end bar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_(music)
Three Basic Note (Time) Values (and corresponding rests)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note_value
Time Signature (or Meter)
Numerator = How many beats (counts) per measure (2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12 common - 1, 5, 7, 8, 11 less so)
Denominator = What kind of note gets the beat (2, 4, 8, 16 - 1, 32 rare - almost always binary)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_signature
Tempo (Speed) - often designated by a Metronome Marking - Beats per Minute (BPM)
Quarter Note = 60 Beats per Minute (i.e. one beat a second)
(One Measure of Quarter Notes in 4/4 above)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Nepomuk_Maelzel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metronome
C Major Scale (in Treble Clef, using Whole Notes, ascending)
(Middle C on a Ledger (additional, short) Line below the 5-line Staff)
... Letter Names, Scale-Degree Numbers
... Solfege
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_major
Typical Keyboard Fingering for C Major Scale
Musical (Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Synthesizer) Keyboard
(Half Step = Distance between adjacent notes
White-Black, Black-White, White-White if no intervening Black
Whole Step = 2 Half Steps
# = Sharp, raises a note 1/2 Step
b = Flat, lowers a note 1/2 Step)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_major
Treble Clef Notes (from one Ledger Line below to one above Staff)
Pentatonic Scale (any collection of 5 pitches per octave)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale
Keyboard-Singing
Lowell Mason - Mary Had a Little Lamb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_Mason
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Had_a_Little_Lamb
[Music Referenced in Quiz 1]
Senegal - Greetings from Podor
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/05/islam-in-senegal.html
Egypt - The Trumpet of Tutankhamun
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/01/tutankhamun-1341-bc-1323-bc.html
China - Entrance Hymn of the Emperor
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/05/king-kang-of-chou-reigned-1021-996-bc.html
[Other Music Referenced in Week 1]
Guido d'Arezzo - Ut Queant Laxis (Hymn to St. John) - The original solfege song!
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/7991/01/guido-darezzo-991-1034.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_of_Arezzo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ut_queant_laxis
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)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Also_sprach_Zarathustra,_Op.30_(Strauss,_Richard)
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
http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Planets,_Op.32_(Holst,_Gustav)
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First day of Spring 2019 Music Theory, and
we are in full force, eventually!
Including a Music Major announcement from Bret, plus initial Board Melody in
Musical Spelling,
on
the
28th
day
of
springlike temps,
high
up
2
to
66,
locally and in Pleasant Hill (Pinole, 64),
back up
680
and
80
to
begin
a
series of walks on the old Pony Express Trail with a stroll from
Vacaville Carl's Jr. (near Nut Tree Road)
to
the
Junction of
505 North and Orange Drive.
Reverse
course
to edit page 40 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act IV, and compose pages 13 and 4 respectively of
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)
