[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)
... 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)
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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)...
