January 31 - Gimme That Old Time Replay

[Early Egyptians marching towards Diablo Valley College Music Appreciation Quiz 2 (Ancient Music) -- Wednesday, February 5, San Ramon; Thursday-Friday, February 6-7, Pleasant HIll]



 F Lydian and Major (in Bass Clef, with Half Notes)

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

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



Major Scale Whole Step / Half Step Pattern (C)

... in Bass Clef, with Half Notes

... on a musical keyboard

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



Four Texures of Music 


Monophonic - One line of music, strictly performed

Heterophonic - One line of music, freely performed

Polyphonic - More than one line of music, with lines of equal importance

Homophonic - More than one line of music, with one line more important than the others

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



Listening


California (Yurok) - Women's Brush Dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDIJYCI5lU0

http://www.yuroktribe.org/culture/history/brushdance.htm
(background on the dance, but we should write on the music)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/native-americans-in-california-c-8000.html
(with notation)


China - Entrance Hymn for the Emperor

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/05/king-kang-of-chou-reigned-1021-996-bc.html
(Recording and Notation)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBbOYeIxBhM
(alternative video)


Seikilos - Epitaph

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilos_epitaph (Notation)

***

First session for the Friday Pleasant Hill Music Historians, and now,

to work!

After this, back to the local Repair All, hopefully for work on the errant iPhone camera, but the specialist in question is not in -- should be working at the Vallejo store Monday, so hope to meet him there then...

For now, home on this 27th day of spring, high down 2 to 69 (locally and in Pleasant Hill; Fairfield, 68,; Martinez, 67),

composing page 15

No Exit, Op. 330
    X.  Let Me Be Your Mirror

and ASCAP registering

Esther Xerxes, Op. 78 (1999)...

January 30 - Short Circuit

Even the front camera goes out on the cellphone, so,

nothing left to do but take pictures on the computer's counterpart re Owen and my classes.

off to the local ATT store thereafter as well as

Repair All, for some comparative shopping,

on the 2nd day of summer, high up 1 to 71

Fairfield, 70
Martinez, 68
Pleasant Hill, 66

with the composition of

No Exit, Op. 330
    X.  Let Me Be Your Mirror (page 14)

registering

Roman de Favvel
(The Horse-Ass Novel - Flattery, Avarice, Vileness, Variability, Envy, Laxity),
Op. 276 (2018)

and posting

Mice Suite No. 1, Op. 41 (1991)

on the International Music Score Library Project...

January 29 - Exposure

Camera goes out while attempting a morning shot of the Vaca Mountains / Rocky Ridge / English Hills from the I-80 crossover of Nut Tree.  Discover that the portrait version of the photo app still works,

sorta,

so,

it's possible to take a few shots of the San Ramon Music History folks, on the 1st day of summer, high up 7 to 70...

Fairfield, 73 [?!]
Martinez / San Ramon, 63
Pleasant Hill / Danville, 64

composing page 13

No Exit, Op. 330
    X.  Let Me Be Your Mirror

and registering

2017, Op. 261

with ASCAP...

January 28 - High Lights and Sounds

First day for the Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, Tuesday-Thursday Music Historians,

heading

thereafter

southwest

to

UC Berkeley Music Library for research re

The Opus Project presents Opus 83-84 (February 29, 2020),

and homeward on the 26th day of spring, high down 5 to 63 (.04 additional moisture, for  11.6 inches since July 1)

Fairfield, 64
Martinez / Pleasant Hill, 62
Berkeley, 58
Pinole, 57

Composing page 12

No Exit, Op. 330
    X.  Let Me Be Your Mirror

January 27 - An Explosive Start

(A big bang for Diablo Valley College Music Appreciation... with Quiz 1 [Worksheet, Open Notes] -- Wednesday, January 29, San Ramon; Thursday-Friday, January 30-31, Pleasant Hill)

C Major Scale (Treble Clef on a Staff in Whole Notes) (Wikipedia Links for your reference)

(Letter Names and Numbers above)

(Solfege Syllables below)
 

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


Musical Keyboard Letter Names

(1/2 step = adjacent notes on a keyboard -- white-to-black; black-to-white;
    or white-to-white, if no intervening black note)

(# = Sharp raises a white note 1/2 step, b = Flat lowers a white note 1/2 step)

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

 

Five Basic Ways of Producing Sound

Wind (Aerophone) - (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Trumpet)
Solid-Body (Idiophone) - (Woodblock, Cymbal)
Drum (Membranophone) - (Timpani)
String (Chordophone) - (Harp, Piano, Violin)
Electricity (Electrophone) - (Synthesizer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_instrument_classification#Mahillon_and_Hornbostel-Sachs_systems



Listening
 

Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: I. Introduction
                             (Thus Spake Zarathustra: I. Sunrise)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETveS23djXM (0.00 - 1:43)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Also_sprach_Zarathustra_(Strauss)


Gustav Holst - The Planets: I. Mars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGGlL1wexQk

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

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


Please identify above (by composer, title, and movement) and describe briefly re:

Rhythm
Pitch
Dynamics
Timbre (Tone-Color)

***

Off to

Diablo

Valley

College,

San Ramon,

for the first day of the Spring 2020 Semester with the

Music Historians!

On the 25th day of spring,

high again 68

Fairfield, 67
Martinez, 60
Pleasant Hill, 62
Danville / San Ramon, 58

Out for another walk on the Pony Express Trail,

now on Cherry Glen,

from Curve Parking to

Pleasants Valley Sop Warning,

reversing

course

to

Three

Mailbox

Junction,

returning

to

compose

No Exit, Op. 330
    X.  Let Me Be Your Mirror (page 11)

and

register 4 more compositons on ASCAP

Sejong the Great, Op. 235 (2015)
Variations on the Romanesca, Op. 251 (2016)
"Eight Waltzes" from "Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel", Op. 252 (2016)

The Decameron: Seventh Day, Op. 262 (2017)