August 24 - A Universe of Possibilities
Welcome to Diablo Valley College Music Appreciation (Fall 2020), with yours-truly-host,
Dr. Mark Alburger!
Syllabus is at
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/01/dvc-music-literature-110-overview.html
We're all online, still, so the two-class-meetings-a-week are playlists on YouTube, posted each Monday and Wednesday. Each playlist is 6 c. 15-minute original linked videos... roughly one-and-a-half hours per presentation...
The first Lecture Playlist, for today, August 24, is below the next picture...
Each Monday and Wednesday will feature a new Playlist, accessed from this current blog-website
markalburger2020.blogspot.com
dated as above.
The titles of the daily blog entries are rather arbitrary / capricious...
Your class participation will be to take notes on each Playlist (c. 300-500 words) -- handwritten or typed -- as you listen, and send off by 6pm Fridays (in this case, August 28) to mus21stc@gmail.com or my school email (both go to the same inbox) as attached pdfs or jpgs...
Blank pdf copies of Quizzes (Worksheets, really) will be group emailed to you every Wednesday, with info for same posted on this website just below the corresponding daily Lecture Playlist, and same method of transmission / due date as above. While top of each Quiz should be hand-written (re Music Notation and Basic Information), the bottom (Identification and Descriptions of Featured Composers and Pieces) may be typed... And you can always create your own versions of the Quizzes, rather than using the emailed copies...
Looking forward to our continuing time together over the next 16 weeks!
Mark
Dr. Mark Alburger
Diablo Valley College Music
(707) 474-7273
mus21stc@gmail.com
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Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (1. Outer Space to Inner Sanctums)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqnDrtQT7Y8&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcfiiEcHl_yxhUkGSuJ1cG4N
The individual videos detailed below...
Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (1a. An Outer Space Introduction)
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: Introduction (in Cinema)
https://youtu.be/dqnDrtQT7Y8
Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (1b. The Big Bang and Beyond)
The Audio Afterglow of the Big Bang; Vibration / Sound / Rhythm / Pitch / Dynamics / Timbre
https://youtu.be/Pi0njIAhxZ8
(N.B. Video blocked in Austria and Germany [!],
due to inclusion of South African waves from The Endless Summer[!])
Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (1c. Distance and Direction)
Intervals / Scales; Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: Introduction (in Performance)
https://youtu.be/lE--gc-m8Rw
Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (1d. Notation and Nuance)
Notation of Pitch and Rhythm; Senegal - Greetings from Podor
https://youtu.be/ZSUSPsfQQWc
Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (1e. Speed to Solfege)
Tempo / Three Instrumental Groups; Rodgers - The Sound of Music: Do Re Mi
https://youtu.be/cOBD8qrcMWE
Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (1f. Solfege to Score)
Rodgers - The Sound of Music: Do-Re-Mi; Guido d'Arezzo - Hymn to St. John; Solfege, Accidentals;
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: Introduction (in Score)
https://youtu.be/MAtZayqIUZg
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Begin filming the video
Music History, Op. 335
VI. Baroque Music (I. Early to Middle)
a. On the Cusp
Samuel Voelckel
Jacopo
Peri
John Dowland
Hans Leo Hassler
Carlo
Gesualdo
Out for further exploration of the post-LNU-Lightning-Complex-Fire local area,
with
some
success,
southwest
on
I-80
through
thoroughly-
toasted
Lagoon
Valley,
circling
around at
Manuel Campos
to
get
the
northeastward
perspective,
then
less
successful:
north Orchard,
east
Farrell,
south Gibson Canyon,
swinging about to Brown
and
Brown's Valley
all the way up to
Cantelow,
then looping back
via 505.
Time for the 4th walk along Ulatis Creek,
parking near Stonegate,
walking
north
on
Leisure,
and
hence
to
the
Bike
Path,
west,
back
towards the
Catchment,
this
being
the
145th
day
of
summer,
high up
a tick to
98.
Errands
follow
as well
as
absurdity and
industry...