September 19 - Heartstrings
[Baude Cordier(1380-1439)'s Belle, Bonne, Sage (Beautiful, Good, Wise, c. 1410) as a valentine out of season for Quiz 5 (Renaissance Music), re DVC San Ramon Music Appreciation after 11:10am, Wednesday, September 26]
A Natural (and Harmonic) Minor / Chords in C Major
Three Periods of Aesthetic History after Ancient and Before Classical - and Dates
Medieval - 400-1400
Renaissance - 1400-1600
Baroque - 1600-1750
Three Types of Triads (Chords) and Their Constituent Thirds and Fifths
Major Triad (MT) = Major Third (M3) + Perfect Fifth (P5)
Minor Triad (mT) = Minor Third (m3) + Perfect Fifth (P5)
Diminished Triad (dT) = Minor Third (m3) + Diminished Fifth (d5) (a.k.a. Tritone)
Listening
Gilles Binchois - Files a Marier (Don't Marry)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8400/01/giles-binchois-c-1400-1467.html
(Recording and Score)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Binchois
https://books.google.com/books?id=8gwToY1HEoIC&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=Files+a+Marier&source=bl&ots=u59tx14DnB&sig=4PCzDqMK9keX52yadb2LkFtMDUA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCha6epKLZAhUnxoMKHe1hBE0Q6AEITDAI#v=onepage&q=Files%20a%20Marier&f=false
Conrad Paumann - Mit Ganczem Willen (With All my Heart)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8410/01/conrad-paumann-c-14151473.html
(Recording and Score)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Paumann
Josquin des Pres - El Grillo (The Cricket)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI-bQ0RkArA
(Recording and Score)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josquin_des_Prez
https://www.allmusic.com/composition/el-grillo-song-for-4-parts-mc0002358561
Costanzo Festa - Quando Ritrova (When I Find My Shepherdess)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/constanza-festa-1490-1545-sackbut.html
(Recording and Score --
Performance rhythms are markedly different than notation, and measures 14-16 omitted --
Music is repeated in "double" ["doobla"] style, with improvisation in upper shawm line)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costanzo_Festa
Andrea Gabrieli - Ricercar in the 12th Mode (Research in the 12th Mode)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/andrea-gabrieli-c-1510-1586-ricercar.html
(Recording and Score)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Gabrieli
Carlo Gesualdo - Moro, Lasso (Alas, I Die)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dVPu71D8VI
(Recording and Score)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Gesualdo
https://www.allmusic.com/composition/moro-lasso-al-mio-duolo-madrigal-for-5-voices-book-6-w-6-74-mc0002361403
***
Gliding through later Medieval Music,
on
the
176th
day of summer, high at last zooming back up 7 into the 90's (91) --
Fairfield, 88
Pleasant Hill, 87
Danville, 85
San Ramon, 80
-- another
walk
in
the
Diablo
highlands,
South Gate West from Fifth Promontory Parking to
Slope.
Then
the
long
beautiful
reverse
course
homeward
to begin editing new-edition
Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act III,
over various
intriguing videos...