MARK ALBURGER, 2018: February 14

[Baude Cordier(1380-1439)'s Belle, Bonne, Sage (Beautiful, Good, Wise, c. 1410) as a Valentine's gift for Quiz 5 (Renaissance Music), re DVC San Ramon Music Appreciation beyond 11am, Wednesday, February 21 -- Open Notes, due to the Monday, 2/19, Holiday...]

A Natural (and Harmonic) Minor / Chords in C Major

Three Periods of Aesthetic History after Ancient and Before Classical - and Dates

Medieval - 400-1400
Renaissance - 1400-1600
Baroque - 1600-1750

Three Types of Triads (Chords) and Their Constituent Thirds and Fifths

Major Triad (MT) = Major Third (M3) + Perfect Fifth (P5)
Minor Triad (mT) = Minor Third (m3) + Perfect Fifth (P5)
Diminished Triad (dT) = Minor Third (m3) + Diminished Fifth (d5) (a.k.a. Tritone)

Listening

Gilles Binchois - Files a Marier (Don't Marry)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8400/01/giles-binchois-c-1400-1467.html
(Recording and Score)

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

https://books.google.com/books?id=8gwToY1HEoIC&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=Files+a+Marier&source=bl&ots=u59tx14DnB&sig=4PCzDqMK9keX52yadb2LkFtMDUA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCha6epKLZAhUnxoMKHe1hBE0Q6AEITDAI#v=onepage&q=Files%20a%20Marier&f=false

Conrad Paumann - Mit Ganczem Willen (With All my Heart)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8410/01/conrad-paumann-c-14151473.html
(Recording and Score)

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

Josquin des Pres - El Grillo (The Cricket)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI-bQ0RkArA
(Recording and Score)

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

https://www.allmusic.com/composition/el-grillo-song-for-4-parts-mc0002358561

Costanzo Festa - Quando Ritrova (When I Find My Shepherdess)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/constanza-festa-1490-1545-sackbut.html
(Recording and Score --
Performance rhythms are markedly different than notation, and measures 14-16 omitted --
Music is repeated in "double" ["doobla"] style, with improvisation in upper shawm line)

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

Andrea Gabrieli - Ricercar in the 12th Mode (Research in the 12th Mode)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKaJe2t7Hig
(Recording)

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

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/andrea-gabrieli-c-1510-1586-ricercar.html
(Score)

Carlo Gesualdo - Moro, Lasso (Alas, I Die)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dVPu71D8VI
(Recording and Score)

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

https://www.allmusic.com/composition/moro-lasso-al-mio-duolo-madrigal-for-5-voices-book-6-w-6-74-mc0002361403

***

Ah tell us about the birds and the rabbits --

the temperature warming up at bit --

symbols of fecundity,

certainly as much as how many St. Valentines there are,

heading

down

680,

Contra

Costa-

wise,

salute the

Music Historians with Quiz 4 (Medieval Music II, featuring works of Perotin, Machaut, Gherardello da Firenze, plus selections from the Manuscrit du Roi and Ars Antiqua motet tradition).