November 1 - All Souls


Write Your Own Minimalist Passage, in Bass Cleff

(A series of notes featuring repetition)


Three C Seventh Chords (To be written on staff in Bass Clef)

              Major 7th      Dominant 7th     Minor 7th

7                  B                   Bb                     Bb
5                  G                   G                       G
3                  E                    E                       Eb
Root            C                    C                       C


Constituent Triads and 7th Intervals in Three Seventh-Chords

Seventh Chord                    Triad (Major or minor)     Seventh Interval
                                                      (M    or   m)              (M    or    m)

Major 7th = M7 Chord          =          MT               +              M7 Interval

Dominant 7th =  7 Chord      =          MT               +             m7 Interval        

Minor 7th      =  m7 Chord    =            mT              +              m7 Interval


Three Periods of Aesthetic History after Baroque and Before 21st-Century, and Dates

Classical, 1750-1825

Romantic, 1825-1900

20th-Century, 1900-2000



Listening

Sting - Every Breath You Take

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_(musician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_Breath_You_Take


Mark Alburger - Camino Real: Block 9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2dJSGkCrxA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Alburger

http://markalburgerworks.blogspot.com/2003/02/camino-real-op-10.html


Tan Dun - Ghost Opera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtpgURs9c5Y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Dun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Dun:_Ghost_Opera


Hans Zimmer - Interstellar: Cornfield Chase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vko01D77Fg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zimmer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_(soundtrack)


Erling Wold - Sub Pontio Pilato: Credo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PCkw3yNZDQ (@ 1:33:05)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Wold

http://www.erlingwold.com/listofworks.html


Prince - Darling Nikki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyX8w7R7xx8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darling_Nikki

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Quiz 12 for the Music Historians,


after


another


beautiful


morning


commute


and


before


setting


off


once


again


on Alamo Creek Trail,


now from Japonica


north


to


its


junction


with


the


Lower


Path,


then


returning


south


below


Monarch


Ridge


towards


Eucalyptus


Bend


to


point


of


origin.


Ah


these


wonderful


days!


How


long


will


summer


last?


This being the 212th of such,


high down 4 to 73, locally and in Pleasant Hill (San Ramon, 71 / Pinole, 63) and the editing of page 2 Tropes on Benjamin Britten's Songs from the Chinese, Op. 271: I. The Big Chariot...