[Gregory the Great, in roundabout anticipation of Gregorian Chant being featured on Quiz 3 (Medieval Music I) for Music Appreciation, beyond 11:10am, Wednesday, September 12, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon, CA]
Medieval Music I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_music
D Dorian, D Minor, and E Phrygian:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_mode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_minor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_mode
Five Items of the Mass Ordinary, in Order - with Translations and - Typical Forms:
Kyrie - Lord Have Mercy - ABA (Ternary)
Gloria - Glory - Through-Composed (ongoing composition with no particular recurring pattern)
Credo - Creed (I Believe) - Through-Composed
Sanctus (Holy) - ABCB (Verse-Chorus)
Agnus Dei - Lamb of God - AB (Binary)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_(liturgy)
Intervals from Perfect Unison to Perfect Fifth, and Number of Steps in Each:
Perfect Unison (P1) = 0 Steps
Minor Second (m2) = 1/2 Step
Major Second (M2) = 1 Step
Minor Third (m3) = 1 1/2 Steps
Major Third (M3) = 2 Steps
Perfect Fourth (P4) = 2 1/2 Steps
Tritone = 3 Steps
Perfect Fifth (P5) = 3 1/2 Steps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(music)
Listening:
[Identify by Composer (or Region, as given) and Title and describe
re one or more of the following catagories
Rhythm
Pitch
Dynamics
Timbre (Tone-Color)
Texture
Harmony
Form
Context]
Gregorian Chant - Kyrie IV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BphlyIVXyWQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_chant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyriale
Orkney Islands - Hymn to St. Magnus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zciDnkMjfE
https://wikihost.uib.no/medieval/index.php/Sanctus_Magnus_dux
India - Raga Maru Bihag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7-D29IxHQo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_classical_music
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raga
Leonin - Hec Dies (The Is the Day)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8133/01/leonin-c-1133-1190.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léonin
***
Second week with the Music Historians, and a short one, with the Labor Day Holiday, so Quiz 2 (Ancient Music) is open notes, as we listen and look beyond, above,
on
the
162nd
day
of
summer,
high
down
2 to 91 --
Fairfield, 79
Pleasant Hill, 77
San Ramon, 76
-- with the second
DVCSR-to-Mt-Diablo stroll
of the
Fall 2018
season,
now from Digger Pine Parking to
Fourth Promontory
and
back.
Wind back
down the
slope,
then
homeward
on
680
North
in
Solano
and
80
to
edit and score-study...
Page 79 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act II
Page 5
King David, Op. 69 (1998): XII. Incantation (The Witch of Endor)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Billy the Kid (1938): Mexican Dance and Finale - Goodbye, Old Paint (1938)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Children's Notebook, Op. 69 (1945): I. March
John Cage (1912-1992) - Dream (1948)
... in consort with film scores by John Addison and
Jerry Goldsmith...
