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...