May 8 - Through the Listening Glass


[Josquin des Pres, intent on Exam, Part I, 11:10am, Wednesday, May 22, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon]


Write Any Major Scale -- Except C -- with Solfege

Write Any Minor Scale -- Except A -- with Solfege

List Six Periods of Aesthetic History, before the 20th Century, with Dates

Including: Ancient, 3500 BC (BCE) - AD 400 (CE)



Listening


Greece - First Delphic Hymn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnkVaPKlf_U

http://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/1197218

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/01/anonymous-athenian-b-c-168-bc.html

Timbre - Brass Ensemble, Electric Guitar, Drum

Form - Through-Composed

Style - Ancient


Italy - Trotto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aegyz0H31Uo (@ 36:10)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/composers-of-iialian-dances-b-c-1270.html


https://www.allmusic.com/composition/trotto-dance-for-instrumental-ensemble-mc0002367874
(Despite Blue Gene Tyranny's fine write up - the composition is in G Dorian)

Timbre - Medieval Ensemble, including Flute, Bombard (Oboe), Pressure Drum, Vielle (Violin)

Form - Rondo (AABACABACA)

Style - Medieval


Josquin des Pres - Scaramella

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu7-USz4F0k

https://www.allmusic.com/composition/scaramella-va-alla-guerra-song-for-4-parts-mc0002364210

http://imslp.org/wiki/Scaramella_(Josquin_Desprez)

Timbre - 4-Part Male Chorus (SATB Notation) and Lute (Improvised)

Form - Binary AB (or AA'), repeated in this performance

Style - Renaissance



J.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 1: I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kI1Ab6_Xfk
(with notation)

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

http://imslp.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Concerto_No.1_in_F_major,_BWV_1046_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian)

Timbre - [3] Oboes, [2] French Horns, Strings, Continuo (Bassoon / Harpsichord / Low Strings)

Form - Ritournello
[Rondo-like - one main theme, returning in fragments, with contrasting variants]

Style - Baroque


Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"): IV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IInG5nY_wrU (@ 57:15)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Beethoven)

http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.9,_Op.125_(Beethoven,_Ludwig_van)


Timbre - Vocal Soloists, Chorus, Large Orchestra

Form - Theme and Variations

Style - Late Classical / Early Romantic


Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 4: III

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QLuYj2jxoc [23:33 - 29:25]

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Brahms)

http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.4,_Op.98_(Brahms,_Johannes)

Timbre - Large Orchestra

Form - Sonata-Allegro

Style - Romantic

***


Quiz 14 for the Music Historians, and on towards the final, as above,


on


the


38th


day


of


summer,


high


up


3 to 80



(Fairfield / Pleasant Hill, 76... Danville / San Ramon, 72),


with


another


circuit on the westside-DVCSR-to-DVC route,


now from


Fairway


along


Diablo


Road


to


Clydesdale,


looping


St. Luke's Episcopal


 

Church,


in view of Short Ridge.


From


here,


back


to


Solano,


returning


up


I-80


to


a


circuitous


supply


run, 


composition


of


Broke Dance Intermezzi: R, Op. 314
     IVr8. Reigen / Ronde / Rondeau / Rondo / Round…
            Tielman Susato, J.S. Bach, F.J. Haydn, W.A. Mozart, Muzio Clementi
            Ludwig van Beethoven, Claude Debussy, Alban Berg

[6 pages]

and edit page 11 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act V, Scene 2