August 31 - Shiny, Metallic -- Hopping To It...

Solano Brewing Company

with

Harriet for a beer flight of dark-to-light and

delicious tacos,

following

another jaunt on the proximate Pony Express route,

now south from Lewis Bend past Martin's Metal Barking Dogs to Sign Pickup --

thanks to a shuttle from m'lady --

on the 148th day of summer, high up 5 to 99.  Finish composing

Macbeth, Op. 328
    Act III
        Scene VI. Forres. The palace.

(7 systems... 192 pages, Acts I-III...)

August 30 - Ears / Eyes / Ayes Up

Double /

Triple

errands

about town,

147th day of summer,

high up 4 to 94.  Compose

Macbeth, Op. 328
    Act III
        Scene V. A Heath.

(1 page)

August 29 - Enlightened Sound

Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera Fresh Voices XIX (8pm, Saturday, November 23, Community Music Center, SF) meeting with

Harriet March Page, Kurt Erickson, and Heidi Moss --

followed by a

conference at

Solano College

Performing Arts Building--

on the 146th day of summer, high down 6 to 90 (Fairfield, 86) --composing

Macbeth, Op. 328
    Act III
        Scene IV. Hall in the palace.

(30 pages total)

partially over plumbing woes and

an old Johnny Carson show...

August 28 - Warmest Wishes

[Early Egyptians marching towards Music Appreciation Quiz 2 (Ancient Music) -- Worksheet 2, actually, Open Notes again!... Tuesday, September 3, Pleasant Hill; Wednesday, September 4, San Ramon; Friday, September 20, Late Start]



 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 session with the DVC San Ramon Music Historians,

including Quiz 1 --

meeting thereafter with John McGrew re San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's Fall 2019 show (8pm, Saturday, October 5, 2019, Saint Teresa of Avila Catholic Church, San Francisco, CA), Pleasant Hill for paper grading, etc.,

then eventually over the Bay to

Erling Wold's for SFCCO Board meeting re aforementioned concert, on the 145th day of summer, high down 6 to 96

Fairfield, 84
Martinez, 89
Pleasant Hill, 82
San Ramon, 80
Berkeley / San Francisco, 69
San Rafael, 75
Petaluma, 72
Sears Point / American Canyon, 77
Vallejo, 88 

Late return through Marin, composing

Macbeth, Op. 328
    Act III
        Scene III. A park near the palace.

(7 pages total)

August 27 - Opening Night

First session with the Pleasant Hill Tuesday Evening Music Historians -- reminiscent of old times, to an extent...

dropping in on Owen Lee and the Diablo Valley College Philharmonic Orchestra at break for recruitment re The Opus Project presents Opus 79-80 (8pm, Saturday, September 28, DVC Music Building),

more musical merriment beyond, including Balinese Ketjak and

Quiz 1 -- on the 144th day of summer, high back up 1 to 101 (ABA of 102-101-102 last 3 days: tying with 2 days ago, June 10, and July 24-25 as the 4th highest temp of year).

Fairfield, 98
Martinez, 94
Pleasant Hill, 96

Earlier,

walk the Pony Express route west from North Lagoon Mountain Gate

to

Orchard

Bend,

and compose

Macbeth, Op. 328
    Act III
        Scene II. The palace.

(8 pages total)

August 26 - Hot Times

(A big bang for Diablo Valley College Music Appreciation... with Quiz 1 [Worksheet, Open Notes] -- Tuesday, August 27, Pleasant Hill; Wednesday, August 28, San Ramon, and Friday, September 13, Late Start)

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


Please identify above (by composer, title, and movement) and describe briefly re:

Rhythm
Pitch
Dynamics
Timbre (Tone-Color)

***

It's a Big Bang of an Opening Day with the San Ramon Music Historians! -- 143rd of summer, high down 1 to 101 (tying with August 3 as the 5th highest of season)...

Fairfield, 103
Martinez, 92
Pleasant Hill, 99
San Ramon, 94

... composing, upon return,

Macbeth, Op. 328
    Act III
        Scene I. Forres. The palace.

(25 pages total)