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...