[Josquin des Pres, intent on Exam, Part I -- Take home! Due 6pm, Friday, July 24, 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
Here are some ideas re Major, Minor, and Other Scales + Chords!...
from Quiz 4-7, which we skipped!...
List Six Periods of Aesthetic History, before the 20th Century, with Dates
Ancient, 3500 BC (BCE) - AD 400 (CE)
Once again, we skipped some of this, which was on Quiz 4!
Medieval, 400-1400
Renaissance, 1400-1600
Baroque, 1600-1750
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=HFxzqYHA4_E (@ 37:56)
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)
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With Greta Thunberg on Stephen Colbert, begin filming
Music History, Op. 335
V. Renaissance Music (1. Early to High)
1b. Tangles of the Heart and Mind)
Johannes Ciconia, Baude Cordier, John Dunstable,
Lionel Power, Korean and Harpsichord Music, Richard Smert
partially while out w/ Harriet,
walking
the
Pony
Express
Nearly,
in
Davis,
from
the junction of Covell and Monarch,
south on the latter to Temple,
returning via books
and
the hopyards of Ruhstahler Farm,
on this
122nd day of summer,
high down 7 to 87 --
with Dixon at 86, and Davis 89...
