[Pushing at the boundaries, in preparation for Quiz 1, to be given in Music Theory, c. 9:25am, Thursday, August 30, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA]
Treble Clef, on a 5-Line Staff (plural - Staves) (Wikipedia links for your reference)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clef
Measures and Bar Lines (Single and Double)
N.B.
a thin double bar (not pictured above) can serve as a section break
a (thick) double bar (above) can also called be called an end bar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_(music)
Three Basic Note (Time) Values (and corresponding rests)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note_value
Time Signature (or Meter)
Numerator = How many beats (counts) per measure (2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12 common - 1, 5, 7, 8, 11 less so)
Denominator = What kind of note gets the beat (2, 4, 8, 16 - 1, 32 rare - almost always binary)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_signature
Tempo (Speed) - often designated by a Metronome Marking - Beats per Minute (BPM)
Quarter Note = 60 Beats per Minute (i.e. one beat a second)
(One Measure of Quarter Notes in 4/4 above)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Nepomuk_Maelzel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metronome
C Major Scale (in Treble Clef, using Whole Notes, ascending)
(Middle C on a Ledger (additional, short) Line below the 5-line Staff)
... Letter Names, Scale-Degree Numbers
... Solfege
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_major
Typical Keyboard Fingering for C Major Scale
Musical (Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Synthesizer) Keyboard
(Half Step = Distance between adjacent notes
White-Black, Black-White, White-White if no intervening Black
Whole Step = 2 Half Steps
# = Sharp, raises a note 1/2 Step
b = Flat, lowers a note 1/2 Step)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_major
Treble Clef Notes (from one Ledger Line below to one above Staff)
Pentatonic Scale (any collection of 5 pitches per octave)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale
Keyboard-Singing
Lowell Mason - Mary Had a Little Lamb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_Mason
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Had_a_Little_Lamb
[Music Referenced in Quiz 1]
Senegal - Greetings from Podor
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/05/islam-in-senegal.html
Egypt - The Trumpet of Tutankhamun
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/01/tutankhamun-1341-bc-1323-bc.html
China - Entrance Hymn of the Emperor
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/05/king-kang-of-chou-reigned-1021-996-bc.html
[Other Music Referenced in Week 1]
Guido d'Arezzo - Ut Queant Laxis (Hymn to St. John) - The original solfege song!
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/7991/01/guido-darezzo-991-1034.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_of_Arezzo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ut_queant_laxis
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)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Also_sprach_Zarathustra,_Op.30_(Strauss,_Richard)
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
http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Planets,_Op.32_(Holst,_Gustav)
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And here we are for the first day of Fall 2018 Music Theory!
And another fantastic assemblage,
as we proceed to the boards for Treble Clef Musical Spelling,
on
the
154th
day
of
summer,
high down a tick to 80,
tying with
August 21 as the coolest day since July 4
(74 in Fairfield and Pleasant Hill),
stopping off
at
Solano
College
to touch base with Harriet and
do a bit of
general catch-up,
then
proceeding apace,
after a
petrol
stop,
homeward
via
80
to edit page 71 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act II...
