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...