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)