[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)
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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
