[Ah, the mating game towards DVC Appreciation Medieval Music II (Quiz 4) -- a special return to open notes, given the spring holiday season! -- Wednesday, February 19, San Ramon; Thursday-Friday, February 20-21, Pleasant Hill]
Four G Scales / Modes
Subdivisions of Instruments
Four Types of Winds (Aerophones)
End-Blown (Flute / Harmonica)
Double-Reed (Oboe / Bassoon)
Single-Reed (Clarinet / Sax)
Lip-Buzz (Trumpet / Horn / Trombone / Tuba)
Three Types of Solid-Body Percussion (Idiophones)
Metal (Bells / Vibraphone)
Wood (Marimba / Xylophone)
Other (Earth / Glass / Stone)
Three Types of Strings (Chordophones)
Suspended (Harp / Lyre)
Box (Piano / Zither)
Neck (Guitar / Lute / Violin / Viola / Cello / Bass)
Intervals from Perfect Fifth (P5) to Perfect Octave (P8), and Number of Steps in Each
P5 = 3 1/2 Steps
m6 = 4
M6 = 4 1/2
m7 = 5
M7 = 5 1/2
P8 = 6
Listening
Please Identify by Composer / Region / Genre [as noted], and Title [and Movement, if needed] --
and write at least one complete educated sentence on each
Reminders
here and elsewhere parentheses denote alternate title -- you may use either
usually a last name will suffice re composers
in case of ambiguity, sufficient name has been underlined for your reference...
France - Ductia (Duet Dance)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/french-b-c-1170-danse-real-royale.html
(Towards the bottom of the blog entry, with score --
Florilegium version, featuring bombards [oboes], vielles [violins] and drum
the four 8-bar sections are played 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 1, 2 -- and then repeated again in the same order)
also at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aegyz0H31Uo (@ 9:15)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_dance
Perotin - Hec Dies (This Is the Day)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8210/01/perotin-c-1170-c-1210.html
(Second music tab, with score)
Another version, billed as the more properly spelled Haec Dies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SURQLgCmKRk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pérotin
Ars Antiqua Motet - Alle - Psallite (Alle - Sing It)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8220/01/anonymous-french-author-b-c-1220.html
(with notation)
Same version on YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cBSsihRS04
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alle_Psallite_Cum_Luya
Guillaume de Machaut - Notre Dame Mass (La Messe de Nostre Dame): I. Kyrie
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/01/guillaume-de-machaut-c-1300-april-1377.html
(the music tab below is a Scrib'd score that might not boot up, but will display if clicked,
above a couple of YouTube deleted videos!)
Another version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwsxVDR6J0c
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_de_Machaut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messe_de_Nostre_Dame
http://imslp.org/wiki/Missa_de_Notre_Dame_(Machaut,_Guillaume_de) (better full score)
Gherardello da Firenze - Tosto che l'Alba (Soon as the Dawn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok4VOFvLE2Y (with score!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gherardello_da_Firenze
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In California (and seven other states including New York, but not Pennsylvania), Lincoln's Birthday (February 12, 1809) is a state holiday -- celebrated this year as a Friday day off -- and known by many, but not all, which explains why Diablo Valley College is so quiet, save for a few under-informed students...
and the early walk on the
Coast Range section of the
Pony Express Trail
south from
Laguna Creek Junction Gore
to
Cherry Glen Recycle Ranch,
on the 38th day of spring, high up 3 to 67
Fairfield, 68
Martinez, 64
Pleasant Hill, 65
brief stop re
matters medical, and another re
Valentine's Day gifts for Harriet -- the above rose image, The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888), by
Dutch-British artist Lawrence Alma-Tedema (1836-1912), referencing
decadent short-lived Roman Emperor Elagabalus [204-222, b. probably as Bassianus, reigning as Antoninus, in the mad tradition of Caligula (12-41) and Nero (37-68)], who, according to the suspect Augustan History (c. 284)
"In a banqueting-room with a reversible ceiling he once buried his guests in violets and other flowers, so that some were actually smothered to death, being unable to crawl out to the top."
[In his notes to the Augustan History, Bill Thayer notes that "Nero did this also (Suetonius, Nero, xxxi), and a similar ceiling in the house of Trimalchio is described in Petronius, Sat., lx." (Satyricon)]
the painting commissioned by art collector / civil engineer John Aird (1833-1911),
himself commissioned to move the Crystal Palace (1851) from
Hyde Park
[originally established by Henry VIII (1491-1547) -- the c. 1537 painting by
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543, self-portrait c. 1542)]
to the Sydenham (est. c. 1640) district of London, in 1854, in festivities that also included the unveiling of the
Iguanadon Sculptures of
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894), that survive to the present day,
which is more than can be said for the Palace,
having burned in 1936,
a portion of the grounds occupied in 1961 by the Crystal Palace Bowl,
redesigned in 1997, presenting concerts by the London Philharmonic (apparently no information online as to programmed composers over the years), Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, Elton John -- last citation re performances dating to 2007...
"As roses were out of season in the United Kingdom, Alma-Tadema is reputed to have had rose petals sent from the south of France each week during the four months in which it was painted.
The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy summer exhibition in 1888. Aird died in 1911, and the painting was inherited by his son Sir John Richard Aird, 2nd Baronet. After Alma-Tadema died in 1912, the painting was exhibited at a memorial exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1913, the last time it was seen at a public exhibition in the UK until 2014.
Alma-Tadema's reputation declined markedly in the decades after his death. Following the death of the 2nd Baronet in 1934, the painting was sold by his son, the 3rd Baronet, in 1935 for 483 guineas. It failed to sell at Christie's in 1960, and was "bought in" by the auction house for 100 guineas. Next it was acquired by Allen Funt" [1914-1999, of Candid Camera (1948-2014) fame].
"He amassed a collection of works by . . . Alma-Tadema and engineered an exhibition of them at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (bypassing the wishes of then director Thomas Hoving)."
["The roof garden (1987) has views . . . described as 'the best in Manhattan.' Art critics have been known to complain that the view 'distracts' from the art on exhibition. New York Times art critic Ken Johnson complains that the 'breathtaking, panoramic views of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline; creates 'an inhospitable site for sculpture' that 'discourages careful, contemplative looking.' Writer Mindy Aloff describes the roof garden as 'the loveliest airborne space I know of in New York'."]
"The collection's value skyrocketed as a result . . . After Funt experienced financial troubles, he sold the painting along with the rest of his collection at Sotheby's in London in November 1973, achieving a price of £28,000...
Funt resided in Croton-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York.
["In an era when intersections were often controlled by a single traffic signal head, many signals were installed on pedestals in the centers of intersections. Often referred to as "dummy lights"].
His estate, White Gates, was sold to opera singer Jessye Norman in the early 1990s.
Funt in the early 1970s purchased a 1,226 acre ranch located 12 mi south of Carmel near Big Sur, California, . . Funt later purchased the nearby 11-acre Bixby Ranch where he resided.. .
After a stroke in 1993, he became incapacitated and died in 1999 in Pebble Beach, California, days before his 85th birthday."
In other news, pick up the Sacramento Bee and learn of its uncertain future, hopefully better here while composing
No Exit, Op. 330
XII. Damned Bitch (page 3)
