[Ancient Egyptians heading towards Music Appreciation Quiz 2 (Ancient Music),
Wednesday, September 5, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon, CA]
F Lydian and Major (in Bass Clef, with Half Notes)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydian_mode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_major
Major Scale Whole Step / Half Step Pattern (C)
... on a musical keyboard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitone
Four Texures of Music
Monophonic - One line of music, strictly performed
Heterophonic - One line of music, freely performed
Polyphonic - More than one line of music, with lines of equal importance
Homophonic - More than one line of music, with one line more important than the others
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_(music)
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)
China - Entrance Hymn for the Emperor
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/05/king-kang-of-chou-reigned-1021-996-bc.html
(Recording and Notation)
Seikilos - Epitaph
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwYQ_bmkbZs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilos_epitaph (Notation)
***
Second session with the Music Historians, and
Quiz 1! --
on
the
155th
day
of
summer,
high up 2
to 82 --
Fairfield, 79
Pleasant
Hill,
78
San
Ramon,
75 --
with
the
first
DVCSR-to-Diablo
stroll
of the season,
now from Third Canyon
to
Digger Pine Parking,
returning
downslope,
then
up
the
680 corridor
up against the
Sulfur Springs
Mountains
to
errands and editing page 72 page new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act II...
