(An expanding universe -- and consciousness! -- in preparation for Quiz 1, to be given in Music Appreciation, sometime after 11:10am, Wednesday, August 29, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon, CA)
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: first day of the Fall 2018 Semester in Music Appreciation at Diablo Valley College, San Ramon -- and another great group!
A
sunny /
foggy
transit
southwest
on
80
and
south
via
680,
followed
by
a
sorta
beeline
over
to
Berkeley for research re The Opus Project presents Opus 69: Moondance (8pm, Saturday, September 29, Diablo Valley College Music, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA)...
and
homeward,
on
the
153rd
day
of
summer,
high
down
7
to
81 --
Fairfield, 76
Pleasant Hill, 77
San Ramon, 73
Berkeley, 66
-- to edit page 70 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act II...
