(A blast for Diablo Valley College Music Appreciation... with Quiz 1 -- Tuesday, June 18, beyond 10:30am, San Ramon, and 1:10pm, Pleasant Hill, CA)
C Major Scale (Treble Clef on a Staff in Whole Notes) (Wikipedia Links for your reference)
(Letter Names and Numbers above)
(Solfege Syllables below)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_major
Musical Keyboard Letter Names
(1/2 step = adjacent notes on a keyboard -- white-to-black; black-to-white;
or white-to-white, if no intervening black note)
(# = Sharp raises a white note 1/2 step, b = Flat lowers a white note 1/2 step)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_keyboard
Five Basic Ways of Producing Sound
Wind (Aerophone) - (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Trumpet)
Solid-Body (Idiophone) - (Woodblock, Cymbal)
Drum (Membranophone) - (Timpani)
String (Chordophone) - (Harp, Piano, Violin)
Electricity (Electrophone) - (Synthesizer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_instrument_classification#Mahillon_and_Hornbostel-Sachs_systems
Listening
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: I. Introduction
(Thus Spake Zarathustra: I. Sunrise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETveS23djXM (0.00 - 1:43)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Strauss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Also_sprach_Zarathustra_(Strauss)
Gustav Holst - The Planets: I. Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGGlL1wexQk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Holst
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets
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A double whammy of first sessions for the cumulatively-fine Summer Music Historians at San Ramon and
Pleasant Hill --
not much time to get from one to another:
officially 25 minutes,
and it's 30 at best,
so immediately decree that the break for the first class will be at the end and for the second at the beginning, which gives one a fighting chance of 45 minutes from point to point, and it works, at least for now,
on
the
72nd
day
of
summer,
high
up
4
to
91
Fairfield,
89
Martinez, 85
Pleasant Hill, 90
San Ramon, 83
editing
page
49 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act V, Scene 2,
over various videos...
