[Josquin des Pres, intent on Exam, Part I, 11:10am, Wednesday, December 12, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon]
Write Any Major Scale -- Except C -- with Solfege
Write Any Minor Scale -- Except A -- with Solfege
List Six Periods of Aesthetic History, before the 20th Century, with Dates
Including: Ancient, 3500 BC (BCE) - AD 400 (CE)
Listening
Greece - First Delphic Hymn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8vvEbUzV2g
http://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/1197218
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/01/anonymous-athenian-b-c-168-bc.html
Timbre - Brass Ensemble, Electric Guitar, Drum
Form - Through-Composed
Style - Ancient
Italy - Trotto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aegyz0H31Uo (@ 36:10)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/composers-of-iialian-dances-b-c-1270.html
https://www.allmusic.com/composition/trotto-dance-for-instrumental-ensemble-mc0002367874
(Despite Blue Gene Tyranny's fine write up - the composition is in G Dorian)
Timbre - Medieval Ensemble, including Flute, Bombard (Oboe), Pressure Drum, Vielle (Violin)
Form - Rondo (AABACABACA)
Style - Medieval
Josquin des Pres - Scaramella
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tzNuX7u394
https://www.allmusic.com/composition/scaramella-va-alla-guerra-song-for-4-parts-mc0002364210
http://imslp.org/wiki/Scaramella_(Josquin_Desprez)
Timbre - 4-Part Male Chorus (SATB Notation) and Lute (Improvised)
Form - Binary AB (or AA'), repeated in this performance
Styel - Renaissance
J.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 1: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kI1Ab6_Xfk
(with notation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Concertos
http://imslp.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Concerto_No.1_in_F_major,_BWV_1046_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian)
Timbre - [3] Oboes, [2] French Horns, Strings, Continuo (Bassoon / Harpsichord / Low Strings)
Form - Ritournello
[Rondo-like - one main theme, returning in fragments, with contrasting variants]
Style - Baroque
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 7: II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=733bnDTrO6Y
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._7_(Beethoven)
https://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.7,_Op.92_(Beethoven,_Ludwig_van)
Timbre - (2) Flutes, (2) Oboes, (2) Clarinets, (2) Bassoons, (2) Trumpets, (2) Horns, Timpani, Strings
Form - Passacaglia (and a contrasting theme, the whole as a Double Variation)
Style - Classical
Richard Wagner - Die Walkure (The Valkyrie): Act III - The Ride of the Valkyries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Walk%C3%BCre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ride_of_the_Valkyries
https://imslp.org/wiki/Die_Walk%C3%BCre,_WWV_86B_(Wagner,_Richard)
Timbre - Large Orchestra
Form - Through-Composed
Style - Romantic
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Week 14 for the Music Historians, including Hans Zimmer's Interstellar and
Sean Puff Danny P Diddy Combs's Coming Home,
on
the
23rd
day
of
fall,
high down 2 to 55
(Pleasant Hill, 56; Danville / San Ramon, 54),
tying with November 21 as the coldest since March 17.
After
class,
out for the
3rd walk on the DVCSR-to-Pleasant-Hill westside route,
now on Avenida Diablo southwest from northwest of Caballo Ranchero to Dan Cook Canyon East Fork Creek Bridge.
Reverse
course
and
homeward
thereafter
to
edit
page 74 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act III, and finish
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 (7 pages total)...
