September 18 - Return, Return
Back to the classroom for the Music Historians --
a cozy situation, looking ahead to the Renaissance, as below...
A [Harmonic] Minor
A B C D E F G[#] A
Do Re Me Fa Sol Le [Ti] Do
Te
Chords in C Major
C Dm Em F G Am Bdim C
I ii iii IV V vi viio I
Three Periods After Ancient and Before Classical - with Dates
Medieval 400-1400
Renaissance 1400-1600
Baroque 1600-1750
Intervals in Three Types of Triads
Major Triad (MT) = Major Third (M3) + Perfect Fifth (P5)
Minor Triad (mT) = Minor Third (m3) + Pefect Fifth (P5)
Diminished Triad (dT) = Minor Third (m3) + Diminished Fifth (d5)
Listening
[8400] Giles Binchois - Files a Marier (Don't Marry)
[8415] Conrad Paumann - Mit Ganczem Willen (With My Whole Heart)
[8450] Josquin des Pres - El Grillo (The Cricket)
[8491] Henry VIII - Pastime with Good Company
[8510] Andrea Gabrieli - Ricercar (Research) in the 12th Mode
[8525] Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Notre Dame Mass: I. Kyrie
***
Up absurdly early,
down southwest for paper-grading and composition,
then the wonders of the class,
followed
by
a
sojourn to UC Berkeley for research re The Opus Project Presents Opus 33 -- Love! Love! Love!: Valentines Out of Season (8pm, Saturday, September 26, 2015, Diablo Valley College Music, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA).
Homeward
through
slightly-
less-
traffic-
than-
expected
(but
still
meriting
end-
runs...
Cordelia
through
farmlands,
Suisun
Valley,
Abernathy
towards
Mankas
Corner,
Hilborn
winding
to
Lyon
towards
Lagoon
Valley... rather a lot, really) to continue editing page 21 Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1888 Alma Maria Schindler, Op. 232, No. 10, and finish score-study re Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes: Act III - Interlude V (15 systems total),
in the company of videos with
Harriet and Megan. 210th day of summer, high 89 (132 days 80+) -- 87 / 81, DVC / Berkeley...