[Josquin des Pres, dreading Exam, Part I, 10:30am, Monday, May 21, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon]
Write Any Major Scale (Except C), with Solfege
Write Any Minor Scale (Except A), with Solfege
List Six Periods of Aesthetic History, before the 20th Century, with Dates
Listening
California (Yurok) - Women's Brush Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDIJYCI5lU0
http://www.yuroktribe.org/culture/history/brushdance.htm
(background on the dance, but we should write on the music)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/native-americans-in-california-c-8000.html
(with notation)
Italy - Trotto
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/composers-of-iialian-dances-b-c-1270.html
https://www.allmusic.com/composition/trotto-dance-for-instrumental-ensemble-mc0002367874
(Despite Blue Gene Tyranny's fine write up - the composition is in G Dorian)
Josquin des Pres - Scaramella
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tzNuX7u394
https://www.allmusic.com/composition/scaramella-va-alla-guerra-song-for-4-parts-mc0002364210
http://imslp.org/wiki/Scaramella_(Josquin_Desprez)
J.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 1: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kI1Ab6_Xfk
(with notation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Concertos
http://imslp.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Concerto_No.1_in_F_major,_BWV_1046_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"): IV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IInG5nY_wrU (@ 57:15)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Beethoven)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.9,_Op.125_(Beethoven,_Ludwig_van)
Claude Debussy - The Children's Corner: Golliwog's Cakewalk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJqdP-1jUyA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Corner
http://imslp.org/wiki/Children%27s_Corner_(Debussy,_Claude)
***
After a busy weekend,
another amazingly active day,
south on 680
to meet the Music Historians.
Out afterwards for another jaunt on the
DVC-San-Ramon-to-Mt.-Diablo route,
now north on Magee Ranch,
downslope
to
a
midpoint with view of the Peak's slope.
Back in the car,
north
to
point
of
origin --
take Harriet to
Kaiser emergency (her first class ever missed today at Solano College),
where she receives encouragement as her most serious bout with vertigo abates.
Chris texts while on site --
he is back in the area a week early, and has a bit of free time.
With Harriet feeling much better,
head
back
down
the
byways
to
Sonoma
and
on
towards
Marin,
picking him up at Carolyn's,
to take one of our traditional walks in the Crestwood /
Terra
Linda /
Ridgewood /
Sleepy Hollow
Divide
Open Space,
ending up at the Rock.
A divine time,
then
homeward
again,
on
the
43rd
day
of
summer,
high
up 3 to 84,
locally and in San Ramon (tying for the 2nd highest temperature of the year with March 28, April 22, and May 4)
Pleasant Hill, 85
Danville, 79
San Rafael, 81
Also edit system 104 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45, and orchestrate and do editions re page 7
Opus 65 Orchestrations, Op. 279 (2018)
I. Vincent D'Indy - Minuet on the Name of Haydn (1909)
(after Symphony on a French Mountain Air)
II. Sergei Prokofiev - Music for Children (1935): X. March
(after The Love for Three Oranges)
Igor Stravinsky - Violin Concerto (1931): I
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 8, Op. 65 (1943): III
Alan Hovhaness - Avak the Healer, Op. 65 (1946): I
Mark Alburger - Samson and Delilah (The Frank Judges), Op. 65 (1998):
SCENE 1 - Start: I. Digits (Adonibezek)
