June 18 - Hot Times
[Early Egyptians marching towards Music Appreciation Quiz 2 (Ancient Music),
Thursday, June 20, Diablo Valley College, CA]
F Lydian and Major (in Bass Clef, with Half Notes)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydian_mode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_major
Major Scale Whole Step / Half Step Pattern (C)
... in Bass Clef, with Half Notes
... on a musical keyboard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitone
Four Texures of Music
Monophonic - One line of music, strictly performed
Heterophonic - One line of music, freely performed
Polyphonic - More than one line of music, with lines of equal importance
Homophonic - More than one line of music, with one line more important than the others
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_(music)
Listening
California (Yurok) - Women's Brush Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDIJYCI5lU0
http://www.yuroktribe.org/culture/history/brushdance.htm
(background on the dance, but we should write on the music)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/native-americans-in-california-c-8000.html
(with notation)
China - Entrance Hymn for the Emperor
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/05/king-kang-of-chou-reigned-1021-996-bc.html
(Recording and Notation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBbOYeIxBhM
(alternative video)
Seikilos - Epitaph
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwYQ_bmkbZs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilos_epitaph (Notation)
***
Second day of the great
Summer 2019
Music
Historians,
and not-so-wonderful
fevered commute
between the two campuses,
on
the
73rd
day
of
summer,
high
zooming
up
to
an
even 100
(fourth such of month / year)
Fairfield, 92
Martinez, 86
Pleasant Hill, 91
San Ramon, 90
A walk on the Pony Express Route south from Habib's
to
Ulatis
Creek
McClellan
Bridge at
Main Street
and
back,
dining /
paper-grading at the
former,
and
returning to edit page 51 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act V, Scene 2...