[Guido's Handy guide for Quiz 3 (Steps and Modes) - c. 9:35am, Thursday, February 14(!), Diablo Valley College Music Theory, Pleasant Hill, CA]
Placement of First and Second Flats (Bb and Eb):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rest_(music)
Dotted Notes (Adding 1/2 value of preceeding note or dot) and
Ties (connecting two same-pitch notes):
Slur (smoothly connecting two or more different-pitch notes) -
shown below with a corresponding Word Extension (also used with Ties):
Accent Marks (in a passage of 16th Notes):
Main Note of a Piece:
Tonic or Keynote, often represented in analysis by a letter name followed by a colon: ex. - D:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonic_(music)
Fermata (holds a note longer than would usually be expected):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermata
Breath Mark (a short, often functional pause in a musical passage,
usually for vocalists and wind instrumentalists, but even found in string music, etc.)
Double-Long Whole Note:
Musica Ficta (Possible Note Alterations in Early Music):
Denoted by Accidentals above Staff - Fourth note in example could be either B or Bb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_ficta
D Dorian, D Minor, and E Phrygian:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_mode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_minor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_mode
Intervals from Perfect Unison to Perfect Fifth, and Number of Steps in Each:
Perfect Unison (P1) = 0 Steps
Minor Second (m2) = 1/2 Step
Major Second (M2) = 1 Step
Minor Third (m3) = 1 1/2 Steps
Major Third (M3) = 2 Steps
Perfect Fourth (P4) = 2 1/2 Steps
Tritone - Augmented Fourth (A4) or Diminished Fifth (d5) = 3 Steps
Perfect Fifth (P5) = 3 1/2 Steps
Shortcuts re above:
All White-Note Seconds are Major, except E-F and B-C
All White-Note Thirds are Minor, except those above C, F, and G (the Louie-Louie Bass Line)
All White-Note Fourths and Fifths are Perfect, except the combination F-B (A4) / B-F (d5)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(music)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_third
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_third
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_fourth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_fifth
Early Harmony / Counterpoint:
Parallel Motion (Both Parts Move at the Same Interval)
Oblique Motion (One Part Moves, the Other Holds - Different Intervals Formed)
(N.B. placement of notes in a simultaneous 2nd - lower one to left, upper to right)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrapuntal_motion
Keyboard-Solfege
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"): IV. Ode to Joy (transposed to C Major)
Solfege: C: Mi Mi Fa Sol Sol Fa Mi Re Do, etc.
Fingering: C Major Pentascale - either hand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFRfzCiVx_Y
(D Major - Theme 1st appearing @ 2:27)
Music Referenced in Quiz 3:
Northern Plains - Rabbit Dance
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/northernsouthern-arapaho-split-c-1860.html
Gregorian Chants -
Kyrie IV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BphlyIVXyWQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_chant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrie
Psalm 146 with Antiphon
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2540/01/gregory-i-540-604.html
Haec Dies (This Is the Day)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxox8JF1gyw
Scholia Enchiriadis -
Nos Qui Vivimus (We Who Live)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/7820/01/anonymous-b-c-820.html
Rex Caeli (King of Heaven)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j8hYXHr7ZI
***
Prime / Retrograde / Inversion / Retrograde-Inversion Board Melody for the Theoreticians, as well as
Quiz 2, with musical examples drawn from Sol Bloom, Japan, India, Greece, and Gregorian Chant --
on
the
37th
day
of
spring,
high
up
2 to 57
(54 in Pleasant Hill).
Upon return, edit page 48 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act IV, and compose
The Decameron, Op. 289
100 Novels for Voices and Instruments, after the work (1353) of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
Tenth Day/ Novel X - Gualtieri, Marquis of Saluzzo, consents to take Griselda as his wife
Broke Dance Suite, Op. 290 (2018)
IVb8. Crumbolero (Militaire) - Gustav Holst, Maurice Ravel, George Crumb
and
Book of Revelation, Op. 296 (2019)
Opera Oratorio after John of Patmos, AD 6-100
Chapter III - As for You, Sardis (Neurotic, Dotted Quarter = 133, 12/8)
Alto Flute, English Horn, Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Tuba
John, Angelic Chorus (SA), Great Voice, Angelic Chorus (TB)
Harp, Piano, Crotales, Vibraphone, Marimba, Timpani, Arco Strings
Sources
Primary
George Crumb (b. 1929) - Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos, Volume III) (1974)
Secondary
George Crumb (b. 1929) - Lux Aeterna (1971)
"As for you, Sardis,
I know what you're doing.
You think you're alive, but you're dead
Wake up and strenthen what you have before it dies!
Then listen if you have ears!
As for you Philadelphia,
I know that you have a little power but
you've followed faithfully all of my teachings!
Laodicea,
You are neither hot or cold,
You say that you are rich, I say you're mis'rable!
You are poor, naked and totally sightless!
If you have ears, you should listen to what I say!"
-- respectively 11, 8, and 3 pages total -- with the complete Decameron: Tenth Day 108 pages in its entirety...
