[He has seen the light, understands Theory thoroughly, and is ready to take Quiz 6, sometime after 8am, Thursday, March 1, at Diablo Valley College Music, Pleasant Hill, CA]
Grand Staves
Instrumental-Vocal (Bracket and Barline)
Keyboard (Brace and Barline)
(N.B. Barline above is extending upward to an unseen instrumental grand staff)
Choral music is sometimes noted with keyboard-style grand staff - e.g. 2-staff chorales / hymns
While typical Clef Placement is Treble above and Bass below,
it is possible to have two Treble Clefs, or two Bass Clefs
Voices - Approximate Ranges
Soprano (S)
Alto (A)
Tenor (T)
Bass (B)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_type
Four-Part Voicings of Closed-Spacing Root-Position Chords (Triads),
Bass and Treble Clefs, Doubled Roots
Keyboard Style
S 5th Root 3rd
Treble Clef A 3rd or 5th or Root
T Root 3rd 5th
Bass Clef B Root Root Root
Vocal Style
S 5 R 3
Treble Clef A 3 5 R
or or
T R 3 5
Bass Clef B R R R
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_(music)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony
More Root-Postion Figured-Bass Symbols
5 - alter the 5th above the bass in indicated fashion
Natural Sign - Cancels any Flat or Sharp in Key Signature for designated distance above bass
b - Flat the indicated distance above the bass
(N.B. in Baroque Figured Bass, isolated accidentals imply alterations to the 3rd above the bass)
A, E Major; E / C Minor
Typical pentascale fingering
R.H. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5
L.H. 5 4 3 2 1 3 2 1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_major
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_major
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_minor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_minor
Keyboard-Solfege
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) - The Four Seasons (1723): I. Spring: I. Allegro
Solfege in E: Mi Mi Mi Re Do Sol Sol Fa (repeat)
E-Major Pentascale:
R.H. 3 3 3 2 1 5 5 4
L.H. 3 3 3 4 5 1 1 2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Seasons_(Vivaldi)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKthRw4KjEg
Music Referenced in Week 6
Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613) - Moro, Lasso (Alas, I Die, 1610)
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
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) - L'Orfeo (Orpheus, 1607): Tu se Morta (You Are Dead)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGm5TNbA1r4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Monteverdi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Orfeo
http://imslp.org/wiki/L%27Orfeo,_SV_318_(Monteverdi,_Claudio)
Heinrich Schutz (1585-1676) - Saul, Saul (1650)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/heinrich-schutz-1585-1672-saul.html
(N.B. Best heard/viewed on Firefox)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Schütz
https://www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/43mym9/heinrich_schutz_saul_saul_was_verfolgst_du_mich/
http://imslp.org/wiki/Saul%2C_Saul%2C_was_verfolgst_du_mich%3F%2C_SWV_415_(Schütz%2C_Heinrich)
Arcangelo Corelli (1683-1713) - Church Trio Sonata in E Major, Op. 3, No. 7: I. Grave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx9ZpOMdWZs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcangelo_Corelli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trio_sonata
http://imslp.org/wiki/12_Trio_Sonatas%2C_Op.3_(Corelli%2C_Arcangelo)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695) - Dido and Aeneus (1688): Thy Hand, Belinda / When I Am Laid in Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGQq3HcOB0Y
(Vocal / Bass Line Score)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Purcell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dido_and_Aeneas
http://imslp.org/wiki/Dido_and_Aeneas,_Z.626_(Purcell,_Henry)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) - Gloria: I. Gloria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Vivaldi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQx2TWgxX14
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_(Vivaldi)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Gloria_in_D_major,_RV_589_(Vivaldi,_Antonio)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach
- Organ Toccata in D Minor (1707)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU1p7iBSlw8
(Score)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toccata_and_Fugue_in_D_minor,_BWV_565
- Organ Fugue in G Minor ("Little") (1709)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Kq60w-AXk
(Score)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue_in_G_minor,_BWV_578
- Organ Passacaglia in C Minor (1713)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STij8KmsgcI
(Score Manuscript!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passacaglia_and_Fugue_in_C_minor,_BWV_582
-The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (1722): I. Prelude No. 1 in C Major
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otbpdAS2kbw
(John Kirkpatrick, Clavichord, with Score!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlXDJhLeShg
(Entire Book I, Harpsichord, with Score!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well-Tempered_Clavier
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) - Messiah: Hallelujah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4LDVrnAQeo
(Keyboard-Vocal Score)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iXmIjpGsGc&p=FA3F0EFACB26D72D&playnext=1&index=2
(Live Early-Music performance)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_(Handel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_Part_II
http://imslp.org/wiki/Messiah,_HWV_56_(Handel,_George_Frideric)
(Full Score - 44. Hallelujah, at bottom of listings)
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Begin composition of ROMAN DE FAVVEL (The Horse-Ass Novel - Flattery, Avarice, Vileness, Variability, Envy, Laxity), Op. 276 (after Gerais de Bus's Roman de Fauvel, 1313) with XXIX. Je voi douleur / Fauel nous a fait / Autant m'est (I see pain approach, everything is done in reverse / Horse-Ass has made a gift / It's all the same to me, behind and in front),
on
the
41st
day
of
spring,
high again
57,
locally and in Pleasant Hill, .08 additional precip (6.84 since July 1 -- Pinole 55),
greeting the Theoreticians with Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo: Tu se Morta and
Quiz 5... the musical excerpts drawn from Josquin de Pres's El Grillo and Scaramella, Heinrich Schutz's Saul, Saul, Henry VIII's Pastime with Good Company, Louis Bourgeois's Old Hundredth, Thomas Morley's My Bonnie Lass, and the Monteverdi Vespers.
Return
homeward
on
the
joyous
long
and
winding
roads,
including
Travis
and
I-80,
to
edit
page
33 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45...
