Another delightful day with the Music Historians, proceeding through early Medieval Music, looking and listening towards later of same, as below...
G Major (F# Key Signature)
G A B C D E F# G
G Mixolydian
G A B C D E F G
G Dorian (Bb Key Signature)
G A Bb C D E F G
G Minor (Bb and Eb in Key Signature)
G A Bb C D Eb F G
Subdivisions of Winds, Solid-Body Percussion, and Strings
Winds
End-Blow (Flute)
Double Reed (Oboe, Bassoon)
Single Reed (Clarinet, Saxophone)
Lip Buzz (Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Tuba)
Solid Body Percussion
Metal (Bells, Vibraphone, Cymbals)
Wood (Xylophone, Marimba, Wood Block)
Other (Stone, Glass, Earth)
Strings
Suspended (Harp, Lyre)
Box (Piano, Zither)
Neck (Lute, Guitar, Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass)
Intervals Between Perfect Fifth (P5) and Perfect Octave (P8) - and # of Steps
Perfect Fifth - P5 = 3 1/2
Minor Sixth - m6 = 4
Major Sixth - M6 = 4 1/2
Minor Seventh - m7 = 5
Major Seventh - M7 = 5 1/2
Perfect Octave - P8 = 6
Listening
France - Ductia (Duet Dance)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/french-b-c-1170-danse-real-royale.html
Perotin - Hec Dies (This Is the Day)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8210/01/perotin-c-1170-c-1210.html
Ars Antiqua Motet - Alle - Psallite ("Alle" - Sing It)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8220/01/anonymous-french-author-b-c-1220.html
England - Sumer Is Icumen In (Summer Is A' Coming In)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/anon-english-b-c-1280-sumer-is-icumen.html
Guillaume de Machaut - Notre Dame Mass: I. Kyrie
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/01/guillaume-de-machaut-c-1300-april-1377.html
***
Seemingly
always
another
trip
southwest,
to
Contra
Costa,
and,
after
class,
another
walk --
this
time
Alamo
Creek,
along
its
East
Branch
to
the
its
namesake
Park,
by
Windemere
Ridge
and
back...
Again
north
for
a stimulating circuit
about the
hinterlands,
paper grading at Magoo's,
Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera Board meeting at John Bilotta's and
finally homeward,
on the solid 150th day of summer, high again 97 --
Pleasant Hill, 93
San Ramon, 89
Pinole, 62
-- to compose page 10 The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel VIII - One Friend Lies with Another's Wife and a 9th system of That Which Survives, Op. 269: II. Epitaph of Seikilos...
