(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)
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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)
