MARK ALBURGER, 2018: September 20

[Exactly what is going on here?... in Quiz 5 (Major / Minor) for Music Theory, beginning 7:55am, Thursday, September 27, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA)

Cut Time ( = 2/2 = Alla Breve) - with Treble Clef, below...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alla_breve

Chords in C Major and A Minor,
with Letter Names (Above), Roman Numerals (Below) and Scale-Degree Names

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numeral_analysis

Diminished Triad (constituent 3rd and 5th)

dt = m3 + d5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminished_triad

Beginning Figured Bass (Numbers and Symbols Below a Bass Line)

No Figures - assume Root Position Triads (3rd and 5th above) in Mode / Key Indicated

#3 - Raise the 3rd above the Bass with a Sharp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figured_bass

Two Typical Cadences (a Chord Movement from relative activity to relative pause or conclusion)

IV-I = Plagal Cadence
V-I = Authentic Cadence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadence_(music)

A "Natural" (and Harmonic) Minor / D Major

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_minor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_scale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_major

Imitative Counterpoint

One line of music imitating another, at a rhythmic distance, overlapping

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imitation_(music)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterpoint

Keyboard / Solfege

Louis Bourgeois - Old Hundredth

G: Do Do Ti La Sol Do Re Mi

R.H. 4 4 3 2 1 (reach up with second finger to G) 2 3 4

N.B. Finger 3 on F#

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/louis-loys-bourgeois-b-c-1510-1560.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bourgeois_(composer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_100th

Chord Voicing

How the notes of a chord are distributed in its notation and sounding

[Assuming Treble and Bass Clefs above), relatively open spacing of Root-Position A and D Chords]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voicing_(music)

[Music Referenced in Quiz 5]

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

Josquin des Pres - Scaramella

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8450/02/josquin-des-pre-c-1450-1455-1521.html

http://imslp.org/wiki/Scaramella_(Josquin_Desprez)

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

Henry VIII - Pastime with Good Company

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/henry-viii-1491-1547-pastime.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastime_with_Good_Company

Thomas Morley - My Bonny Lass She Smileth

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/thomas-morley-1557-1603-madrigals.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Morley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_bonny_lass_she_smileth

http://imslp.org/wiki/My_Bonny_Lass_She_Smileth_(Morley%2C_Thomas)

Claudio Monteverdi - Vespers: I. Deus in Adjutorium

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8567/01/claudio-monteverdi-1567-1643.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Monteverdi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespro_della_Beata_Vergine

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Louis Bourgeois's Old Hundredth as Keyboard / Solfege / Board Harmony for the DVC Theoreticians, as we plunge into triads big time,

with Quiz 4

(featuring musical examples drawn from Free and Florid Organa, the Orkney Islands Hymn to St. Magnus, the Medieval Conductus Song of the Ass and Italian Trotto, Leonin and Perotin Hec Dies settings, Richard Coeur-de-Lion's Ja Nuns On Pris, Guillaume de Machaut's Notre Dame Mass: I. Kyrie, and Conrad Paumann's Mit Ganczem Willen) following.