[Looks innocent enough, but you never know, heading off to Quiz 5 (Major / Minor) in Music Theory, beginning 8am, Thursday, February 22, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA)
Cut Time ( = 2/2 = Alla Breve) - with Treble Clef, below...
Chords in C Major and A Minor,
with Letter Names (Above), Roman Numerals (Below) and Scale-Degree Names
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numeral_analysis
Diminished Triad (constituent 3rd and 5th)
dt = m3 + d5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminished_triad
Beginning Figured Bass (Numbers and Symbols Below a Bass Line)
No Figures - assume Root Position Triads (3rd and 5th above) in Mode / Key Indicated
#3 - Raise the 3rd above the Bass with a Sharp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figured_bass
Two Typical Cadences (a Chord Movement from relative activity to relative pause or conclusion)
IV-I = Plagal Cadence
V-I = Authentic Cadence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadence_(music)
A "Natural" (and Harmonic) Minor / D Major
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_scale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_major
Imitative Counterpoint
One line of music imitating another, at a rhythmic distance, overlapping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imitation_(music)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterpoint
Keyboard / Solfege
Louis Bourgeois - Old Hundredth
G: Do Do Ti La Sol Do Re Mi
R.H. 4 4 3 2 1 (reach up with second finger to G) 2 3 4
N.B. Finger 3 on F#
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/louis-loys-bourgeois-b-c-1510-1560.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bourgeois_(composer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_100th
Chord Voicing
How the notes of a chord are distributed in its notation and sounding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voicing_(music)
[Music Referenced in Quiz 5]
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
Josquin des Pres - Scaramella
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8450/02/josquin-des-pre-c-1450-1455-1521.html
http://imslp.org/wiki/Scaramella_(Josquin_Desprez)
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
Henry VIII - Pastime with Good Company
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/henry-viii-1491-1547-pastime.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastime_with_Good_Company
Thomas Morley - My Bonny Lass She Smileth
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/thomas-morley-1557-1603-madrigals.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Morley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_bonny_lass_she_smileth
http://imslp.org/wiki/My_Bonny_Lass_She_Smileth_(Morley%2C_Thomas)
Claudio Monteverdi - Vespers: I. Deus in Adjutorium
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8567/01/claudio-monteverdi-1567-1643.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Monteverdi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespro_della_Beata_Vergine
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Oh what fun it is to harmonize (specifically Louis Bourgeois's Old Hundredth) with the Theoreticians,
on
the
35th
day
of
spring,
high
again 66 (Pleasant Hill, 68),
returning
via
Manuel Campos,
Lyon,
Lagoon
Valley,
and
80 to edit page 26 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45...
