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...