September 6 - Returning Inevitably


OK, so we're not exactly all back yet, but will be soon, as first session after Labor Day, finishing up Medieval Music and proceeding apace to the Renaissance, as below...


A [Harmonic] Minor Scale

A   B   C    D   E   F  G[#]  A
Do Re Me Fa Sol Le [Ti]  Do
                                   Te   Do


Chords in C Major

C  Dm  Em  F  G  Am Bdim  C

G   A   B   C   D   E     F      G
E    F   G   A   B   C    D      E
C   D   E    F   G   A    B      C

I    ii   iii   IV  V  vi   viio   I

[N.B.  "C" = C Major Chord
           "Dm"  = D Minor Chord
           "Bdim"  = B Diminished Chord]


Three Periods of Music History after Ancient and Before Classical + Dates

Medieval  400-1400
Renaissance  1400-1600
Baroque  1600-1750


Three Kinds of Triads + Thirds and Fifths in Each

Major Triad          = MT = M3 + P5
Minor Triad          = mT  = m3 + P5
Diminished Triad = dT   = m3 + d5

[N.B. d5 = Diminished 5th = Tritone = 3 steps]


Listening

[8400] Giles Binchois - Files a Marier (Don't Marry)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8400/01/giles-binchois-c-1400-1467.html

[8415] Conrad Paumann - Mit Ganczem Willen (With My Whole Heart)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8410/01/conrad-paumann-c-14151473.html

[8450] Josquin des Pres - El Grillo (The Cricket)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8450/02/josquin-des-pre-c-1450-1455-1521.html

[8491] Henry VIII - Pastime with Good Company
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/henry-viii-1491-1547-pastime.html

[8510] Andrea Gabrieli - Ricercare in the 12th Mode (Research in C Major)
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/andrea-gabrieli-c-1510-1586-ricercar.html

[8525] Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Pope Marcellus Mass: I. Kyrie
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8525/01/giovanni-pierluigi-da-palestrina-1525.html

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The


scenic


route


down


to DVC


San Ramon,


quick walk thereafter on East Alamo Creek Trail from


Branch Park


to


Pipers Brook Trailhead


and


back,


quick driving explorations


here and


there,


then a


hasty retreat back North to


Rashid Iqbal's office,


rescheduling an appointment.


Return homeward on the 157th day of summer (high down 3 to 93 -- Pleasant Hill, 84; San Ramon, 89),


where Megan is visiting, for general catch-up and composition,


over videos, re page 5 The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel IX - Bruno and Buffalmacco Prevail upon Master Simone...