January 25 - Charming


[Music hath charms to sooth the savage cobras, rising up towards
Treble and Bass (Quiz 2), Thursday, February 1,
Diablo Valley College Music, Pleasant Hill, CA]


Eighth Note(s)



...Single, showing constituant parts



... Two Down-Beat / Up-Beat 8ths in Old Vocal Style vs. Instrumental / Contemporary Vocal Usage



F Lydian and Major (in Bass Clef, with Half Notes)



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

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



Major Scale Whole Step / Half Step Pattern (C)



 ... in Bass Clef, with Half Notes




... on a musical keyboard


Small Intervals (Quality and Number)

P1 (Perfect Unison) = 0 Steps, with 1 Letter Name

m2 (Minor Second) = 1/2 Step, with 2 Letter Names

M2 (Major Second) = 1 Step, with 2 Letter Names

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unison
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitone

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



More Notes in Treble and Bass Clef, including many on Ledger Lines




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

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



Keyboard / Singing




http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2010/10/sol-bloom-1870-1949-snake-charmer.html



[Music referenced in Quiz 2]


Japan - Two Pentatonic Scales


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiraj%C5%8Dshi_scale


India - Raga Maru Bihag


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7-D29IxHQo

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bihag 


Athenaeus - First Delphic Hymn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8vvEbUzV2g
(performance by a contemporary brass ensemble + drums and electric guitar)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_Hymns  (Notation)


Mesomedes of Crete - Hymn to the Sun


http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/05/mesomenes-of-crete-b-c-ad-110.html


Gregorian Chant - Kyrie IV

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2540/01/gregory-i-540-604.html


***


Oh


these


early-morning


days!...


to rendezvous with the Theoreticians re Musical Spelling and Quiz 1


(the musical examples drawn from music of Senegal, Egypt, and China) --


Arts Division paperwork and


parts/score copying for The Opus Project presents Opus 61 (8pm Saturday, January 27, Diablo Valley College Music, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA),


thereafter,


then


taking


a


delighfully


scenic,


though,


at


times


stern


return


on


the


25th


day


of


spring,


high


again


54 (Pleasant Hill, 60; Pinole, 55 -- .14 rainfall, 6.76 since July 1)


to edit page 5 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45, + update Wikipedia disambiguation pages on beyond (and sometimes before (Sergei Rachmaninoff) re


Opus 1,


2,


3,


4,


5,


6,


7,


8,


9 and,


10...