[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, Tuesday, June 26, 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)
Agnus 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:
[Identify by Composer (or Region, as given) and Title and describe
re one or more of the following catagories
Rhythm
Pitch
Dynamics
Timbre (Tone-Color)
Texture
Harmony
Form
Context]
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/Léonin
***
Day 4, already Quiz 2 (Ancient), for the Music Historians --
before this,
the viewful
morning
transit;
after,
a final stroll on Blackhawk (part of the DVC San Ramon to Pleasant Hill, via Mt. Diablo experience), now west from San Andreas,
via Athenian Ridge,
past Cameron,
looking
up
to
the
heights
towards
Scenic,
reversing
to
start.
Lunch at La Fogata in Walnut Creek,
lateralling over to
UC Berkeley for
research re The Opus Project presents Opus 66 (8pm, Saturday, June 30, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA),
then over to Jeanne Stark's for the third rehearsal of the Goat Hall Productions, etc., read-through of Matthew Owens's The Garden (2013),
with a growing list of performers now including Harriet March Page, Sarita Cannon, Ryan Swale,
Wayne Wong, Megan Cullen,
Debbie Niles, and other talented performers...
86th day of summer, high thrice in a row at 93...
Fairfield, 90
Martinez, 83
Pleasant Hill, 91
San Ramon, 87
Danville, 81
Walnut Creek, 88
Berkeley, 64
... page 10 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act II edited...
