[For Quiz 3 (Steps and Modes) - 9:30am, February 8, Diablo Valley College Music Theory, Pleasant Hill, CA]
Placement of First and Second Flats (Bb and Eb):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rest_(music)
Dotted Notes (Adding 1/2 value of preceeding note or dot) and
Ties (connecting two same-pitch notes):
Slur (smoothly connecting two or more different-pitch notes) -
shown below with a corresponding Word Extension (also used with Ties):
Accent Marks (in a passage of 16th Notes):
Main Note of a Piece:
Tonic or Keynote, often represented in analysis by a letter name followed by a colon: ex. - D:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonic_(music)
Fermata (holds a note longer than would usually be expected):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermata
Breath Mark (a short, often functional pause in a musical passage,
usually for vocalists and wind instrumentalists, but even found in string music, etc.)
Double-Long Whole Note:
Musica Ficta (Possible Note Alterations in Early Music):
Denoted by Accidentals above Staff - Fourth note in example could be either B or Bb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_ficta
D Dorian, D Minor, and E Phrygian:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_mode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_minor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_mode
Intervals from Perfect Unison to Perfect Fifth, and Number of Steps in Each:
Perfect Unison (P1) = 0 Steps
Minor Second (m2) = 1/2 Step
Major Second (M2) = 1 Step
Minor Third (m3) = 1 1/2 Steps
Major Third (M3) = 2 Steps
Perfect Fourth (P4) = 2 1/2 Steps
Tritone - Augmented Fourth (A4) or Diminished Fifth (d5) = 3 Steps
Perfect Fifth (P5) = 3 1/2 Steps
Shortcuts re above:
All White-Note Seconds are Major, except E-F and B-C
All White-Note Thirds are Minor, except those above C, F, and G (the Louie-Louie Bass Line)
All White-Note Fourths and Fifths are Perfect, except the combination F-B (A4) / B-F (d5)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(music)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_third
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_third
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_fourth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_fifth
Early Harmony / Counterpoint:
Parallel Motion (Both Parts Move at the Same Interval)
Oblique Motion (One Part Moves, the Other Holds - Different Intervals Formed)
(N.B. placement of notes in a simultaneous 2nd - lower one to left, upper to right)
Keyboard-Solfege
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"): IV. Ode to Joy (transposed to C Major)
Solfege: C: Mi Mi Fa Sol Sol Fa Mi Re Do, etc.
Fingering: C Major Pentascale - either hand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFRfzCiVx_Y
(D Major - Theme 1st appearing @ 2:27)
Music Referenced in Quiz 3:
Northern Plains - Rabbit Dance
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/northernsouthern-arapaho-split-c-1860.html
Gregorian Chants -
Kyrie IV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BphlyIVXyWQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_chant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrie
Psalm 146 with Antiphon
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2540/01/gregory-i-540-604.html
Haec Dies (This Is the Day)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxox8JF1gyw
Scholia Enchiriadis -
Nos Qui Vivimus (We Who Live)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/7820/01/anonymous-b-c-820.html
Rex Caeli (King of Heaven)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j8hYXHr7ZI
***
Flying objectively
below the brutal
but
glorious
early
morning
sky,
introduction of Week 3 material for the Theoreticians,
then Quiz 2, featuring musical examples referencing Music of Japan, India, Ancient Greece, and Medieval Europe.
Homeward eventually,
via errands,
to edit page 12 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45, on the second day of summer, high 75 (Pleasant Hill, 74) -- warmest of this year, a temperature not experienced since last October 31...
