February 1 - Attention


Quiz 2 for the Music Appreciation folks, and material must be copied off the screens -- sorry!  Will try not to let this happen again...

But all's well, and excellent scores are achieved, looking ahead to matters Medieval, as below...


D Dorian Mode

D E F G A B C D


D Minor Scale (use Bb key signature, this time referencing treble clef)

D E F G A Bb C D


E Phrygian Mode

E F G A B C D E


Five Parts of a Catholic Mass Ordinary -Translations -Typical Forms

Kyrie - Lord Have Mercy - ABA (Ternary)

Gloria - Glory - Through-Composed (i.e. no typical repeating structure - an ongoing evolution)

Credo - Creed ("I Believe") - Through-Composed

Sanctus - Holy - ABCB (Verse-Chorus)

Agnus Dei - Lamb of God - AB (Binary)


Intervals from Perfect Unison to Perfect Fifth and Number of Steps in Each
(N.B. left-hand column will be provided on quiz... M = "Major";  m = "minor",
0 Steps and 3 1/2 Steps will also be given)...

P1 = 0 Steps

m2 = 1/2 Step
 
M2 = 1 Step

m3 = 1 1/2 Steps

M3 = 2 Steps

P4 = 2 1/2 Steps

Tritone = 3 Steps

P5 = 3 1/2 Steps


Listening

[7540] Gregorian Chant - Kyrie IV

[8085] Orkney Islands - Hymn to St. Magnus

[8100] India - Raga Maru Bihag

[8133] Leonin (Little Leo) - Hec Dies (This Is the Day) 

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29th day of spring-like weather,


high plummeting down 8 to 53,


locally and in San


Ramon --

Pinole / San Francisco, 56
Emeryville, 57


Beelines north


and


west for


quick lunch and


pleasurable paper-grading,


southwest


on


80


along


the


waterfront,


to work on


Opus Project material over a libation at Chevy's,


then off to Stardust's for the monthly SF Composers Chamber Orchestra Board meeting (Spring 2017 concert: 8pm, Saturday, May 6, St. Mark's Lutheran Church) --


steep grades and


spectacular staircases....


Late-


night


composition re 24 Tone Preludes: IX. Serenadis Interruptus, page 8.