The hour
approaches...
Music Appreciation -- DVC San Ramon, Fall 2017!
Looking towards Quiz 1, as a worksheet-exercise...
C Major Scale
C D E F G A B C
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1(8)
Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do
Notes in One Octave of a Piano Keyboard
(black notes above [which can be called "sharp" or "flat"], and white notes below)
C# D# F# G# A#
Db Eb Gb Ab Bb
C D E F G A B C
Five Basic Ways of Making Sound (optional ethonomusic terms in parentheses below)
Wind (Aerophone)
Solid-Body (Idiophone)
Drum (Membranophone)
String (Chordophone)
Electricity (Electrophone)
Listening
[1970] Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: I. Introduction
(Thus Spake Zarathustra)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/01/universe-c-13730000000-waves.html
[1980] Gustav Holst - The Planets: I. Mars
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/1980/01/solar-system-c-4600000-bc-oscillation.html
***
And
off
we
go,
on
the
136th
day
of
summer,
high
again
down
10
to
80
(20-degree plummet in the last two days) --
Pleasant Hill, 71
San Ramon, 74
Pinole, 65
Vallejo, 76
-- taking
to
the
Tassajara Ridge Trail
thereafter,
north from the Trailhead
to
Compass Point Divide View,
then
back in the car,
up
the
Valley,
and
homeward,
head-dizzingly --
on
80,
780,
680,
and
eventually
80
again --
to compose pages 6 and 10 sequentially of The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel VII - A Scholar Loves a Widow Lady and Variations on Variations of Brahms on a Theme of Haydn, Op. 268...
