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

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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...