[Is this a look of astonishment for Quiz 5 (Major / Minor) in Music Theory, beginning 7:55am, Thursday, February 28, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA?)
Cut Time ( = 2/2 = Alla Breve) - with Treble Clef, below...
Chords in C Major and A Minor,
with Letter Names (Above), Roman Numerals (Below) and Scale-Degree Names
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numeral_analysis
Diminished Triad (constituent 3rd and 5th)
dt = m3 + d5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminished_triad
Beginning Figured Bass (Numbers and Symbols Below a Bass Line)
No Figures - assume Root Position Triads (3rd and 5th above) in Mode / Key Indicated
#3 - Raise the 3rd above the Bass with a Sharp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figured_bass
Two Typical Cadences (a Chord Movement from relative activity to relative pause or conclusion)
IV-I = Plagal Cadence
V-I = Authentic Cadence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadence_(music)
A "Natural" (and Harmonic) Minor / D Major
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_scale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_major
Imitative Counterpoint
One line of music imitating another, at a rhythmic distance, overlapping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imitation_(music)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterpoint
Keyboard / Solfege
Louis Bourgeois - Old Hundredth
G: Do Do Ti La Sol Do Re Mi
R.H. 4 4 3 2 1 (reach up with second finger to G) 2 3 4
N.B. Finger 3 on F#
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/louis-loys-bourgeois-b-c-1510-1560.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bourgeois_(composer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_100th
Chord Voicing
How the notes of a chord are distributed in its notation and sounding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voicing_(music)
[Music Referenced in Quiz 5]
Josquin des Pres - El Grillo (The Cricket)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI-bQ0RkArA
(Recording and Score)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josquin_des_Prez
https://www.allmusic.com/composition/el-grillo-song-for-4-parts-mc0002358561
Josquin des Pres - Scaramella
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8450/02/josquin-des-pre-c-1450-1455-1521.html
http://imslp.org/wiki/Scaramella_(Josquin_Desprez)
Costanzo Festa - Quando Ritrova (When I Find My Shepherdess)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/constanza-festa-1490-1545-sackbut.html
(Recording and Score --
Performance rhythms are markedly different than notation, and measures 14-16 omitted --
Music is repeated in "double" ["doobla"] style, with improvisation in upper shawm line)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costanzo_Festa
Henry VIII - Pastime with Good Company
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/henry-viii-1491-1547-pastime.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastime_with_Good_Company
Thomas Morley - My Bonny Lass She Smileth
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/thomas-morley-1557-1603-madrigals.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Morley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_bonny_lass_she_smileth
http://imslp.org/wiki/My_Bonny_Lass_She_Smileth_(Morley%2C_Thomas)
Claudio Monteverdi - Vespers: I. Deus in Adjutorium
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8567/01/claudio-monteverdi-1567-1643.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Monteverdi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespro_della_Beata_Vergine
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The Music Theoreticians receive Louis Borgeois's (1510- 1559) Old Hundredth (1551) for Dictation / Keyboard-Solfege / Board Harmony and
Quiz 4 (musical examples drawn from Free Organum, the Orkney Islands, School of Compostela, Leonin, Richard Coeur-de-Lion, Italian Dance, Perotin, Guillaume de Machaut, and Conrad Paumann).
50th
day
of
spring,
high
down
3
to
57
(locally and in Pleasant
Hill;
Fairfield,
58),
the commute
as lovely as mostly,
with the editing and composing, partially over
Woody Allen's (b. 1935) Love and Death (1975) -- featuring Sergei Prokofiev's
Scythian Suite, Op. 20 (1914)
Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33 (1919)
Lt. Kije, Op. 60 (1934)
Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78 (1939)
-- of page 62 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act IV, plus
Book of Revelation, Op. 296
Opera Oratorio after John of Patmos, AD 6-100
Chapter XVII - The Great Whore (Erotic, Dotted Quarter = 75, 6/8)
Alto Flute, English Horn, Tenor Saxophone, Contrabassoon, Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Tuba
John, Great Voice
Piano, Vibraphone, Roto Toms / Timpani, Arco Strings
Sources
Primary
Bela Bartok (1881-1945) - Scherzo Burlesque, Op. 2 (1904)
Secondary
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) - Music for the Theatre (1925)
William Walton (1902-1983) - Belshazzar's Feast (1931)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Amazing Joseph, Op. 57 (1997)
Portraits of ___ (Some Multiple of Three) Women, Op. 231 (2014)
"The Great Whore of Babylon. She will be punished eventually.
That great city built beside many waters. She's going down.
Kings of Earth have committed such crimes with her, drunken her wine of fornication!"
I was carried away in the spirit and into the wilderness,
there she was sitting upon a great scarlet beast!
and
Broke Dance Intermezzi: C, Op. 299
IVc2. Canario Island (Hot Blue)
Henry Purcell, Paul Nero, Olivier Messiaen
... 4 pages each...
