[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)
... 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)
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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)
