(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)
