January 31 - Out of Time and Place


[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/LĂ©onin


***


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)...