Day 2 of Theory, first dictation (inspired by The Trumpet of Tutankhamun and Richard Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra), and to the boards to spell out musical words.
The
scenic
transport
of
rapture
down
680
to
Diablo
Valley College,
and afterward again in
Owen's class, reviewing all major scales.
Home for a spell,
then the premiere evening class (sold out, so to speak, as usual), with music referencing life, the universe, and everything...
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C Major Scale
C D E F G A B C
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do
One Octave of a Piano Keyboard
Black notes above - named two different ways
White notes below
C# D# F# G# A#
Db Eb Gb Ab Bb
C D E F G A B C
Five Ways of Producing Sound
Parentheses below (and under Listening) are alternative designations
Aerophone (Wind)
Idiophone (Solid-Body Percussion)
Membranophone (Drum)
Chordophone (String)
Electrophone (Electricity)
Listening
Be able to identify by ear -- include composer - title: movement (latter if given),
and write briefly in your own words about each selection.
Initial brackets below denote page numbers at markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com.
In general, names include capital first letters (first not needed, except underlined initials).
[8864] Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra): Introduction
[8874] Gustav Holst - The Planets: I. Mars
[8883] Edgar Varese - Poeme Electronique (Electricity Poem)
[8891] Sergei Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf
[8908] Olivier Messiaen - Turangalila Symphony: IV
[8911] Alan Hovhaness - And God Created Great Whales
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Out after with Tim White and Owen, then home to edit Psalm 110 "Dixit Domine", Op. 218, No. 4 (Psalm 109, Greek numbering), and score-study a third page of Zoltan Kodaly's Psalmus Hungaricus, Op. 13.
Second day of summer-like temperatures for the year, high just achieving the mark, at 70, replicating January 4.
