[Josquin des Pres, intent on Exam, Part I -- Take home! Due 6pm, Friday, May 22, as attached pdf / jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com (or school email)]
Write Any Major Scale -- Except C -- with Solfege
Write Any Minor Scale -- Except A -- with Solfege
List Six Periods of Aesthetic History, before the 20th Century, with Dates
Including: Ancient, 3500 BC (BCE) - AD 400 (CE)
Listening
For each description, please include information on...
Timbre (Instruments / Voices)
Form (Structure)
Stylistic Period (Historical Era)
+
at least two other aspects of music from any of below...
Rhythm (Note Values, Tempo, Time Signature[s])
Pitch (Mode / Scale, Motive, Phrase, Melody)
Dynamics
Texture
Harmony
Context (Biography, History, Text Setting / Words)
Greece - First Delphic Hymn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnkVaPKlf_U
http://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/1197218
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/01/anonymous-athenian-b-c-168-bc.html
Italy - Trotto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXxaCcVzsEU&feature=youtu.be (@ 15:54)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/composers-of-iialian-dances-b-c-1270.html
https://www.allmusic.com/composition/trotto-dance-for-instrumental-ensemble-mc0002367874
(Despite Blue Gene Tyranny's fine write up - the composition is in G Dorian)
Josquin des Pres - Scaramella
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu7-USz4F0k
https://www.allmusic.com/composition/scaramella-va-alla-guerra-song-for-4-parts-mc0002364210
http://imslp.org/wiki/Scaramella_(Josquin_Desprez)
J.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 1: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kI1Ab6_Xfk
(with notation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Concertos
http://imslp.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Concerto_No.1_in_F_major,_BWV_1046_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"): IV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IInG5nY_wrU (@ 57:15)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Beethoven)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.9,_Op.125_(Beethoven,_Ludwig_van)
Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 4: III
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QLuYj2jxoc [23:33 - 29:25]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Brahms)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.4,_Op.98_(Brahms,_Johannes)
***
Produce
Music History, Op. 335
XV. Review
1f. Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 4: III
which also seems to involve
background
re
Hamburg,
Brahms's playing in brothels,
the Schumanns
(Robert's madness and
Clara's later relationship w/ Johannes),
the Brahmsian birthplace,
a composer's love and
hate life,
the notion of "Three B's",
proponents
and
adventures,
receptions
and
colleagues,
a
bit
of
a
throughline
for
the
career,
a
focus
on
the
Fourth
Symphony,
and
concluding
with
late
life
concerns.
Newspapers
and
another
epic
Pony Express Approximation,
walking from
Pedrick-Tremont Junction,
walking north on the former to
Second Slow Trucks Sign.
50th
day
of
summer,
high up 2 to
95 --
new highest of year, and 3rd above 90...
after yesterday's 93 (today's Dixon apex), and April 24's 91...
