November 30 - Open Mic and Poetry Slam


Open Mic and Poetry Slam
5pm, November 30, 2018
Solano College, CA


Introduction

     Host: Carmen Silvey


Open Mic

     Performers:

          1. Tyler McCown


          2. Vianca Jimenez


          3. Jace Klingelhafer




          4. Chelsea Ray
          5. Katherine Bergey
          6. Jennie Aguilera
          7. Erin Jones
          8. Gabriella Duclair


          9. Carmen Silvey


Poetry Slam - Round 1

     Judges: Michael Wyly, Renee
Hamlin, and Dr. Rischa Slade

     Performers:

          1. Tyler McCowen


          2. Vianca Jimenez


          3. Jeremy Snyder


          4. Julia Mercado


          5. James Tate


          6. Armando Quiros


          7. Hanna Lee


          8. Annalyce L.


-Intermission-

Poetry Slam - Round 2


[Julia Mercado]


[Vianca Jimenez]


[Jeremy Snyder]


[James Tate]


[Hanna Lee]

-Intermission-

Awards


[Vianca Jimenez, Hanna Lee]


[James Tate, Jeremy Snyder, Vianca Jimenez, Hanna Lee]


[Julia Mercado, James Tate, Jeremy Snyder, Vianca Jimenez, Hanna Lee]

 ***



Very fine show at Solano College!


A


supply


run


and


videos before this, editing page 71 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act III, and compose system 4

The Decameron, Op. 289 (2018)
     100 Novels for Voices and Instruments, after the work (1353) of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
          Tenth Day - Novel II - Ghino di Tacco captures the Abbot of Cluny


Spectacular


sunset


on


the


20th


day


of


fall,


high


up


5


to


62


(locally and in


Fairfield).


At a late hour, the power goes out with a bang (the neighbor's heater), and, of course, with it heat -- out and about to see the extent of the outage (a large trianglular aria surrounding us), PGE gives no explanation, several hours later, all is restored...

November 29 - Standing Tall


[Philip Glass's Satyagraha Gandhi overcomes all obstacles, as hopefully we will in Quiz 14 (Analysis), given sometime after 7:55am, Thursday, December 6, Diablo Valley College Music Theory, Pleasant Hill, CA]


More Added (Non-Chord / Non-Harmonic / Embellishing) Tones

Anticipation - A Dissonant Melodic Note which will be a Consonant Tone in the following Chord

Wild Tone - A Dissonant Melodic Note that cannot be explained by any traditional usage


Suspended Chords

Sus 4 = "Root 4th 5th" (the fourth often resolves downward to the 3rd)
(use of capital or small Roman numeral determined by what the 3rd would be, given the key)


Major Ninth Chord

Major 7th Chord + M9 (interval, measured from Root)


Keyboard-Solfege / Chord Performance

Sting (b. 1951) - King of Pain (1983): Chorus


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFN5DveQH0o

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_(musician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Pain





[N.B. Upper 2 Staves above in Treble Clef; Lower in Bass
The cancelled Key Sig simply erases D Major of the preceeding example]


5 Seventh Chords in 3 Keys

Major 7th (M7)                          MT + M7 interval
Dominant 7th (7)                       MT + m7 interval
Minor 7th (m7)                          mT + m7
Half-Diminished 7th (ho7)        dT + m7
Diminished 7th (o7)                   dT + d7

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_chord



Other Music Referenced in Quiz 14


Philip Glass

     Satyagraha (1980): Act I, Scene 1 "On the Kuru Field of Justice"

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU1hyzl8UJ4

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyagraha_(opera)

     Akhnaten (1983): Act I, Scene 2 "Akhnaten and Nefertiti"

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7swQfN3RAo (@ 2:37)

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhnaten_(opera)

***


Start off with the immediate two selections above for the Music Theoreticians as Dictation / Board Harmony,


on


the


19th


day


of


fall,


high down 9 to 57


(2nd coolest of the season thus far,


tying with November 27,


before that not experienced since April 16... .66 additional rainfall, 3.54 tallied from July 1... Martinez, 59; Pleasant Hill, 61).


Off to



U.C. Berkeley Music Library


thereafter


for


research re  


The Opus Project presents Opus 71-72 (8pm, Saturday, December 15, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA).


A


long


circuituous


way


homeward,


finally


back


on


freeways,


to


Solano,


on


I-


780 --


a


spectacular


double


rainbow --


and,


by


Junction


680,


complete,


with


an


end


definitely


in


evolving


view,


more


diversions


eventually



towards


80


through


viewful


Lagoon


Valley


to


Harriet and Megan, editing page 70 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act III, and composing system 3

The Decameron, Op. 289 (2018)
     100 Novels for Voices and Instruments, after the work (1353) of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
          Tenth Day - Novel II - Ghino di Tacco captures the Abbot of Cluny