It's Music Appreciation, first session of the Spring 2018 Semester at Diablo Valley College, San Ramon!
Looking ahead to our first worksheet-exercise (Quiz I, open notes), as below...
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C Major Scale (Treble Clef on a Staff in Whole Notes) (Wikipedia Links for your reference)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_major
Musical Keyboard Letter Names
(# = 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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_instrument_classification#Mahillon_and_Hornbostel-Sachs_systems
Wind (Aerophone) - (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Trumpet)
Solid-Body (Idiophone) - (Woodblock, Cymbal)
Drum (Membranophone) - (Timpani)
String (Chordophone) - (Harp, Piano, Violin)
Electricity (Electrophone) - (Synthesizer)
Listening
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: I. Introduction
(Thus Spake Zarathustra: I. Sunrise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5bU7ibqGko (0.00 - 2:00)
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
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Ah,
another
academic
year,
with
a
walk
thereafter on
Lawrence Road,
from the
Trailhead,
north
to
Eucalyptus Window
and
back,
on
the 22nd day of spring,
high down 3 to 52
(Pleasant Hill / Pinole, 58; San Ramon, 56),
with .29
additional rainfall,
for a total of 6.32
since July 1 --
editing the second page of the new edition re Mice and Men, Op. 45,
upon return...
