Looking forward to the first extra-credit concert of the year: The Opus Project presents Opus 49: Orations / Ovations (8pm, Saturday, January 28, 2017; Center for New Music, 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA),
after a second fine session with the Music Appreciation folks at
Diablo Valley College, San Ramon Campus, doing Quiz 1 as a worksheet exercise, and beginning to deal with next Thursday's material, as below...
Three Modes / Scales, Notated in Bass Clef
F Lydian ("Do" will always represent the lowest note of a collection)
F G A B C D E F
Do Re Mi Fi Sol La Ti Do
F Major (Use Bb as a Key Signature - Placing it directly after clef, on the B line, before the notes)
F G A Bb C D E F
Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do
C Major
Same letters as last week, but now notated lower on the Bass Clef staff, as in picture above.
Pattern of Whole and Half Steps in a [C] Major Scale
(H = Half Step = White Key-to-Black Key, or White-to-White if no intervening Black
W = Whole Step = White Key-to-White Key with a Black Key in between)
C D E F G A B C
W W H W W W H
Four Textures of Music
Monophonic (One Sound) = A single line of music, strictly performed
Heterophonic (Mixed Sound) = A single line of music, freely performed
Polyphonic (Many Sounds) = More than one line of music, w/ lines of equal importance
Homophonic (Blended Sound) = More than one line of music, w/ one line more important than others
Listening
[5659] Egypt - The Trumpet of Tutankhamun (The Trumpet of King Tut)
[5949] China - Entrance Hymn for the Emperor
[6970] Turkey (Asia Minor / Ancient Greek Culture) - Epitaph of Seikilos
(Death Inscription of Seikilos)
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Another
beautiful
commute
there
and
leisurely
strolling
and
motoring
back
up
north
again,
beginning composition of 24 Tone Preludes: IX. Serenadis Interruptus, on the 22 day of spring, high 54 (55 San Ramon)...
