September 5- In a Bubble

[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...

September 4 - Fine Tuning

Week 2 for the Theoreticians,

including Egyptian / Chinese / Pythagorean Acoustics,

review of Keyboard-Solfege for Quiz 2, and

Board Melodic Inversions --

on

the

161st

day

of

summer,

high

again

93 (Pleasant Hill, 86 /

Fairfield, 88) --

stopping off again at

Solano College to see Harriet,

proceeding

beyond

Rockville

to 

grade papers

out,

and

returning

homeward to do the daily editing / score-studying...

Page 78 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act II

Page 4

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)

September 3 - Labors Lost and Found

Enlightening videos while editing and score-studying as follows...

Page 77 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act II

Page 3

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 (5 pages total)

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

... on the 160th day of summer, high back down 3 to 93 (ABA of 93-96-93 last 3 days)...

September 2 - High Wood

Discover the recently cancelled Mozart in the Jungle (2014-2018), which clearly captures some aspects of the classical scene (with far more than first Viennese School selections featured, and knowing re oboists and perhaps a Los Angeles conductor in particular [despite being set in New York] and the orchestral experience in general).  159th day of summer, high up 3 to 96 -- editing page 2 King David, Op. 69 (1998): XII. Incantation (The Witch of Endor) and system 76 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act II, also score-study second systems of




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 (5 pages total)

John Cage (1912-1992)
     Dream (1948)

September 1 - Nothing Is Certain When You're About

Off to errands but mostly home,

on the 158th day of summer,

high up 4 to 93 (first 90's since August 19, after a 12-day stretch of 80's),

beginning a new edition of  

King David, Op. 69 (1998): XII. Incantation (The Witch of Endor) and continuing that of Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act II (page 75) + also begin score study re

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)

some of this over various videos...