[Gregory the Great, anticipating the moment that music attributed to him (a hymn perhaps?) will be featured on Quiz 3 (Medieval Music I) in Music Appreciation at 12noon, Wednesday, February 7, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon, CA]
Medieval Music I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_music
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
Five Items of the Mass Ordinary, in Order - with Translations and - Typical Forms:
Kyrie - Lord Have Mercy - ABA (Ternary)
Gloria - Glory - Through-Composed (ongoing composition with no particular recurring pattern)
Credo - Creed (I Believe) - Through-Composed
Sanctus (Holy) - ABCB (Verse-Chorus)
Angus Dei - Lamb of God - AB (Binary)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_(liturgy)
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 = 3 Steps
Perfect Fifth (P5) = 3 1/2 Steps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(music)
Listening:
Gregorian Chant - Kyrie IV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BphlyIVXyWQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_chant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyriale
Orkney Islands - Hymn to St. Magnus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zciDnkMjfE
https://wikihost.uib.no/medieval/index.php/Sanctus_Magnus_dux
India - Raga Maru Bihag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7-D29IxHQo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_classical_music
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raga
Leonin - Hec Dies (The Is the Day)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8133/01/leonin-c-1133-1190.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léonin
***
Another
beautiful
trip
south
on
680
to
meet the Music Historians for the mysteriously Medieval (and an Ancient Quiz 2),
then
further
via
Windemere
and
Tassajara,
to rendezvous with Carole Cloud again, now for the repertory re The Opus Project presents Opus 62 (8pm, Saturday, February24, Diablo Valley College Music, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA) --
today at Curry Cravings.
Return
in
dizzing
form
on the 1st day of summer[!],
high
making it up to that crucial determinant of
70,
locally and in
Pleasant Hill
(exact highest
since the last of 2017's similar season on December 7...
San Ramon, 68;
Pinole, 65),
to finish composition of 2018, Op. 275: I. A Very Stable Genius (3 pages total), and continue editing new-version Mice and Men, Op. 45 (page 11)...
