June 27 - Love Songs


[Baude Cordier(1380-1439)'s Belle, Bonne, Sage (Beautiful, Good, Wise, c. 1410) for DVC Summer Music Appreciation Quiz 5 (Renaissance Music) -- an open-notes worksheet exercise on Monday, July 1]


A Natural (and Harmonic) Minor / Chords in C Major


Three Periods of Aesthetic History after Ancient and Before Classical - and Dates

Medieval - 400-1400
Renaissance - 1400-1600
Baroque - 1600-1750


Three Types of Triads (Chords) and Their Constituent Thirds and Fifths

Major Triad (MT) = Major Third (M3) + Perfect Fifth (P5)
Minor Triad (mT) = Minor Third (m3) + Perfect Fifth (P5)
Diminished Triad (dT) = Minor Third (m3) + Diminished Fifth (d5) (a.k.a. Tritone)


Listening


Gilles Binchois - Files a Marier (Don't Marry)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8400/01/giles-binchois-c-1400-1467.html
(Recording and Score)

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

https://books.google.com/books?id=8gwToY1HEoIC&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=Files+a+Marier&source=bl&ots=u59tx14DnB&sig=4PCzDqMK9keX52yadb2LkFtMDUA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCha6epKLZAhUnxoMKHe1hBE0Q6AEITDAI#v=onepage&q=Files%20a%20Marier&f=false


Conrad Paumann - Mit Ganczem Willen (With All my Heart)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8410/01/conrad-paumann-c-14151473.html
(Recording and Score)

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


Josquin des Pres - El Grillo (The Cricket)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI-bQ0RkArA
(Recording and Score)

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

https://www.allmusic.com/composition/el-grillo-song-for-4-parts-mc0002358561



Costanzo Festa - Quando Ritrova (When I Find My Shepherdess)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/constanza-festa-1490-1545-sackbut.html
(Recording and Score --
Performance rhythms are markedly different than notation, and measures 14-16 omitted --
Music is repeated in "double" ["doobla"] style, with improvisation in upper shawm line)

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


Andrea Gabrieli - Ricercar in the 12th Mode (Research in the 12th Mode)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/andrea-gabrieli-c-1510-1586-ricercar.html
(Recording and Score)

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


Carlo Gesualdo - Moro, Lasso (Alas, I Die)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dVPu71D8VI
(Recording and Score)

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

https://www.allmusic.com/composition/moro-lasso-al-mio-duolo-madrigal-for-5-voices-book-6-w-6-74-mc0002361403


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Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Andrew Yang, Kirsten Gillibrand, John Hickenlooper, Michael Bennet, Marianne Williamson, and Eric Swalwell --


followed by Steven Colbert's take on the proceedings and interview with Chris Christie...


Before this, meet the respective Music Historians for more


Late Medieval merriment and Quiz IV,


on


the


81st


day


of


summer,


high


up


4 to 84


San Ramon, 75


Pleasant Hill, 79


Martinez, 67


Fairfield, 80



Rendevous


for


not-so-secret


lunch


with Harriet and Megan at


Pietro's II,


then walking northeast on Merchant,


again the old Pony Express Route,


back to



Pietro's I,


and


reverse


course --


followed 


by return to compose


North Lehigh Circle, Op. 325 (June 25, 2019)
    Musical Homeland In Six Decades
        III. 1970's - 5

and edit page 60 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act V, Scene 2...