MARK ALBURGER, 2019: February 2019

[Seeing the light, understanding Theory thoroughly, ready to take Quiz 6, sometime after 7:55am, Thursday, March 7, at Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA]

Grand Staves

Instrumental-Vocal (Bracket and Barline)

Keyboard (Brace and Barline)

(N.B. Barline above is extending upward to an unseen instrumental grand staff)

Choral music is sometimes noted with keyboard-style grand staff - e.g. 2-staff chorales / hymns

While typical Clef Placement is Treble above and Bass below,
it is possible to have two Treble Clefs, or two Bass Clefs

Voices - Approximate Ranges

Soprano (S)
Alto (A)
Tenor (T)
Bass (B)

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

Four-Part Voicings of Closed-Spacing Root-Position Chords (Triads),
Bass and Treble Clefs, Doubled Roots

Keyboard Style

S       5th                  Root              3rd
Treble Clef    A      3rd        or       5th       or     Root
                      T      Root                3rd                5th

Bass Clef B     Root                Root             Root

Vocal Style

                      S          5                  R                3
Treble Clef    A         3                  5                 R
                                            or                or
                      T          R                 3                 5
Bass Clef      B          R                 R                 R

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

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

More Root-Postion Figured-Bass Symbols

5 - alter the 5th above the bass in indicated fashion

Natural Sign - Cancels any Flat or Sharp in Key Signature for designated distance above bass

b - Flat the indicated distance above the bass

(N.B. in Baroque Figured Bass, isolated accidentals imply alterations to the 3rd above the bass)

A, E Major; E / C Minor

Typical pentascale fingering

R.H. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5

L.H. 5 4 3 2 1 3 2 1

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

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

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

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

Keyboard-Solfege

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) - The Four Seasons (1723): I. Spring: I. Allegro

J.S. Bach's Organ Passacaglia in C Minor and Well-Tempered Clavier: I. Prelude in C Major for the Theoreticians, as well as

Quiz 5, with examples drawn from works of Josquin des Pres, Costanza Festa, Henry VIII, Louis Bourgeois, and Claudio Monteverdi,

the

57th

day

spring,

high

down a

point to

60 (N.B. above calendar re sunshine for the month, not to be taken seriously vis temps or precip -- adieu [or perhaps adiable] to the Weather Underground website, though the phone map app remains absolutely magnificent) -- with

Fairfield at 61 and

Pleasant Hill 59.

Return

dramatically

improving

conditions

take

another

jaunt on the

Pony Express route,

now from

Vacaville Courtyard

behind

Formerly-Known-as-Kinko's,

paralleling 80

southwest,

stopping into

the

hotel

briefly,

then

rendezvous-ing with Harriet

for

errands

about

town,

before

beginning the

editing of

new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act V, Scene 1, plus finishing

Broke Dance Intermezzi: C, Op. 299

with

IVc12. Cortisone Courtesan Cortege (Petite)
Claude Debussy, Henri Busser, Harrison Birtwistle

and

IVc13. Confounded Country (Occidentally Willing)…
Henry Purcell, Anton Webern, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, Mark Alburger

--- respectively 2 / 4 pages total, with the complete work clocking in at 112...

February 28 - Astonishing