September 6 - Put 'er There


[Guido's Handy guide for Quiz 3 (Steps and Modes) - c. 9:35am, September 13, Diablo Valley College Music Theory, Pleasant Hill, CA]


Placement of First and Second Flats (Bb and Eb):

Eighth Rest:



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



Dotted Notes (Adding 1/2 value of preceeding note or dot) and 
Ties (connecting two same-pitch notes):


Slur (smoothly connecting two or more different-pitch notes) - 
shown below with a corresponding Word Extension (also used with Ties):


Accent Marks (in a passage of 16th Notes):



Main Note of a Piece:

Tonic or Keynote, often represented in analysis by a letter name followed by a colon: ex. - D:

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


Fermata (holds a note longer than would usually be expected):



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


Breath Mark (a short, often functional pause in a musical passage,
usually for vocalists and wind instrumentalists, but even found in string music, etc.)

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


Double-Long Whole Note:



Musica Ficta (Possible Note Alterations in Early Music):


Denoted by Accidentals above Staff - Fourth note in example could be either B or Bb...


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

 
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


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 - Augmented Fourth (A4) or Diminished Fifth (d5) = 3 Steps
Perfect Fifth (P5) = 3 1/2 Steps

Shortcuts re above:

All White-Note Seconds are Major, except E-F and B-C
All White-Note Thirds are Minor, except those above C, F, and G (the Louie-Louie Bass Line)
All White-Note Fourths and Fifths are Perfect, except the combination F-B (A4) / B-F (d5)

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

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

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

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

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

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


Early Harmony / Counterpoint: 

Parallel Motion (Both Parts Move at the Same Interval)



Oblique Motion (One Part Moves, the Other Holds - Different Intervals Formed)


(N.B. placement of notes in a simultaneous 2nd - lower one to left, upper to right)


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



Keyboard-Solfege 
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"): IV. Ode to Joy (transposed to C Major)



Solfege: C: Mi Mi Fa Sol Sol Fa Mi Re Do, etc.
Fingering: C Major Pentascale - either hand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFRfzCiVx_Y
(D Major - Theme 1st appearing @ 2:27)


Music Referenced in Quiz 3:

Northern Plains - Rabbit Dance


http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/northernsouthern-arapaho-split-c-1860.html



Gregorian Chants -

Kyrie IV


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BphlyIVXyWQ



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

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


Psalm 146 with Antiphon


http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2540/01/gregory-i-540-604.html


Haec Dies (This Is the Day)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxox8JF1gyw


Scholia Enchiriadis -

Nos Qui Vivimus (We Who Live)


http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/7820/01/anonymous-b-c-820.html


Rex Caeli (King of Heaven)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j8hYXHr7ZI

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Quiz 2 for the Music Theoreticians, with musical examples derived from Japanese, Indian, Greek, and Gregorian sources + Sol Bloom's Snake Charmer --


on


this


the



161st


day


of


summer,


high


again


91 (Fairfield /


Pleasant Hill,


86) --


northbound


again


on


680


eventually,


once


more


stopping by to greet Harriet at


Solano


College,


then


onward


towards


paper-grading over



lunch,


and


homeward to edit / score-study...

Page 79 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act II

Page 6

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)

John Cage (1912-1992) - Dream (1948)

Page 1

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
      Children's Notebook, Op. 69 (1945): IV. Happy Fairy Tale (10 pages total)



Tisha, Claire, and Aubrey arrive safely later in the evening --


still energetic enough to head out for a supply run...