June 18 - Note This
C Major Scale (Treble Clef on a Staff in Whole Notes) (Wikipedia Links for your reference)
(Letter Names and Numbers above)
(Solfege Syllables below)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_major
Musical Keyboard Letter Names
(1/2 step = adjacent notes on a keyboard -- white-to-black; black-to-white;
or white-to-white, if no intervening black note)
(# = Sharp raises a white note 1/2 step, b = Flat lowers a white note 1/2 step)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_keyboard
Five Basic Ways of Producing Sound
Wind (Aerophone) - (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Trumpet)
Solid-Body (Idiophone) - (Woodblock, Cymbal)
Drum (Membranophone) - (Timpani)
String (Chordophone) - (Harp, Piano, Violin)
Electricity (Electrophone) - (Synthesizer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_instrument_classification#Mahillon_and_Hornbostel-Sachs_systems
Listening
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: I. Introduction
(Thus Spake Zarathustra: I. Sunrise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5bU7ibqGko (0.00 - 2:00)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Strauss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Also_sprach_Zarathustra_(Strauss)
Gustav Holst - The Planets: I. Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGGlL1wexQk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Holst
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets
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Well,
here we are,
the Summer 2018 Music History group, and what a class!
On the
83rd day of summer,
high up 10 to 88...
Pleasant Hill, 84
San Ramon, 85
Danville, 80
out for a walk thereafter with Harriet, part of the DVCSR to DVCPL via Mt. Diablo series, now a shady little jaunt on Blackhawk from Arends to
Jillian,
also
editing
page
7
new-edition
Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act II...