September 11. Quiz 3 for the Music Historians, listening / looking ahead as below...
G Major (Key Signature of One Sharp - F#)
G A B C D E F# G
G Mixolydian (All White Notes)
G A B C D E F G
G Dorian (Key Signature of One Flate - Bb)
G A Bb C D E F G
G Minor (Key Signature of Two Flats - Bb and Eb)
G A Bb C D Eb F G
Subdivisions of Instruments
Wind (Aerophone)
End-Blown (Flute)
Double Reed (Oboe)
Single Reed (Clarinet)
Lip-Buzz (Trumpet)
Solid-Body (Idiophone)
Metal (Bells)
Wood (Xylophone)
Other (Stone, Earth, Glass, Plastic)
String (Chordophone)
Suspended (Harp)
Box (Piano, Zither)
Neck (Violin, Guitar)
Number of Steps in Intervals from Perfect Fifth to Perfect Octave
P5 = 3 1/2
m6 = 4
M6 = 4 1/2
m7 = 5
M7 = 5 1/2
P8 = 6
Listening
[8170] France - Ductia (Duet Dance)
[8170] Perotin - Hec Dies (This Is the Day)
[8220] Ars Antiqua Motet - Alle - Psallite ("Alle" - Sing It)
[8270] Italy - Trotto (Trot Dance)
[8280] England - Sumer Is Icumen In (Summer Is A-Coming In)
[8300] Guillaume de Machaut - Notre Dame Mass: I. Kyrie
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Early departure,
paper-grading, timely arrival, composition,
more
attempted paperwork
up-campus,
blitz over to check up on
Carol's amazingly-speedy recovery from surgery (she is well enough to continue discussion of upcoming Opus 33),
returning homeward circuituously,
via errands and
prescription refill attempt (The Wizard of Oz: "Go away and come back tomorrow"),
to continue with the pilgrimage of books,
videos (will we [n]ever learn?), editing page 14 Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1888 Alma Maria Schindler, Op. 232, No. 10 -- plus score-study the 8th system of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes: Act III - Interlude V.
204th day of summer, high back down 4 to 105 (an ABA re yesterday's record-breaking 109... 24 / 80 / 128 days 100 / 90 / 80+) -- Pleasant Hill, Pinole: 102, 87...
