[Two against one towards DVC San Ramon Music Appreciation for Medieval Music II (Quiz 4) -- open notes (due to Presidents Day cancelling our Monday meeting) -- beyond 11:10am, Wednesday, February 20]
Four G Scales / Modes
Subdivisions of Instruments
Four Types of Winds (Aerophones)
End-Blown (Flute / Harmonica)
Double-Reed (Oboe / Bassoon)
Single-Reed (Clarinet / Sax)
Lip-Buzz (Trumpet / Horn / Trombone / Tuba)
Three Types of Solid-Body Percussion (Idiophones)
Wood (Marimba / Xylophone)
Metal (Bells / Vibraphone)
Other (Earth / Glass / Stone)
Three Types of Strings (Chordophones)
Suspended (Harp / Lyre)
Box (Piano / Zither)
Neck (Guitar / Lute / Violin / Viola / Cello / Bass)
Intervals from Perfect Fifth (P5) to Perfect Octave (P8), and Number of Steps in Each
P5 = 3 1/2 Steps
m6 = 4
M6 = 4 1/2
m7 = 5
M7 = 5 1/2
P8 = 6
Listening
Please Identify by Composer / Region / Genre [as noted], and Title [and Movement, if needed] --
and write at least one complete educated sentence on each
Reminders
here and elsewhere parentheses denote alternate title -- you may use either
usually a last name will suffice re composers
in case of ambiguity, sufficient name has been underlined for your reference...
France - Ductia (Duet Dance)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/french-b-c-1170-danse-real-royale.html
(Towards the bottom of the blog entry, with score --
Florilegium version, featuring bombards [oboes], vielles [violins] and drum
the four 8-bar sections are played 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 1, 2 -- and then repeated again in the same order)
also at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aegyz0H31Uo (@ 9:15)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_dance
Perotin - Hec Dies (This Is the Day)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8210/01/perotin-c-1170-c-1210.html
(Second music tab, with score)
Another version, billed as the more properly spelled Haec Dies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SURQLgCmKRk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pérotin
Ars Antiqua Motet - Alle - Psallite (Alle - Sing It)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8220/01/anonymous-french-author-b-c-1220.html
(with notation)
Same version on YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cBSsihRS04
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alle_Psallite_Cum_Luya
Guillaume de Machaut - Notre Dame Mass (La Messe de Nostre Dame): I. Kyrie
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/01/guillaume-de-machaut-c-1300-april-1377.html
(the music tab below is a Scrib'd score that might not boot up, but will display if clicked,
above a couple of YouTube deleted videos!)
Another version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwsxVDR6J0c
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_de_Machaut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messe_de_Nostre_Dame
http://imslp.org/wiki/Missa_de_Notre_Dame_(Machaut,_Guillaume_de) (better full score)
Gherardello da Firenze - Tosto che l'Alba (Soon as the Dawn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok4VOFvLE2Y (with score!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gherardello_da_Firenze
***
The Music Historians receive Quiz 3 (Medieval I) as
torrents of rain fall -- 2.88, the most of any day this year, certainly besting January 16's 2.06, putting the rainfall-season-since-July-1 tally at 15.77... about the average yearly of San Jose --
at least the high temp shooting back up 11 to 57, counting as the 42nd of spring (Fairfield, 56;
Pleasant Hill / San Ramon, 61), editing page 54 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act IV, and composing
Broke Dance Suite, Op. 290: IVb10e. ...Gay (Phalese)
Pierre Phalese, Igor Stravinsky
and
Book of Revelation, Op. 296 (2019)
Opera Oratorio after John of Patmos, AD 6-100
Chapter IX - Fifth Angel (Volcanic, Quarter = 110, 3/4)
Piccolo, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Tuba
John, Great Voice
Harp, Piano, Vibraphone, Marimba, Arco Strings
Sources
Primary
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) - Song of the Nightingale (1917
Secondary
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884) - The Moldau (1875)
Fifth Angel blew a trumpet
Smoke rose up from the ground
Sixth Angel blew a trumpet
"Release the Euphrates River!"
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