[Ancient Egyptians looking foward to Quiz 2,
Wednesday, January 31, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon, 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)
... 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
China - Entrance Hymn for the Emperor
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/05/king-kang-of-chou-reigned-1021-996-bc.html
(Recording and Notation)
Athenaeus - First Delphic Hymn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8vvEbUzV2g
(performance by a contemporary brass ensemble + drums and electric guitar)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenaeus_(musician)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_Hymns (Notation)
Seikilos - Epitaph
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwYQ_bmkbZs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilos_epitaph (Notation)
***
Open-notes worksheet on
Quiz 1 for the
Music Historians,
after
a
moist
yet
mysterious
morning
commute,
and
before
further
south
to
rendezvous with
Carole Cloud at Koi Palace re music for The Opus Project presents Opus 61 (8pm, Saturday, January 27, Diablo Valley College Music, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA),
on the rainy
(.3 additional precip, 6.62 since July 1)
24th day of spring,
high down 5 to 55 --
Pleasant Hill, 62
San Ramon, 59
Pleasanton, 61
Pinole, 58
-- with the editing of page 4 re new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45, upon a dark return...
