January 28 - Full On


Quiz 2 for the Music Historians -- Ancient Music and later works inspired by same -- looking ahead to Medieval I, including three later, latter selections influenced by the Middle Ages...


D Dorian
D E F G A B C D

D Minor
D E F G A Bb C D

E Phrygian
E F G A B C D E

Intervals (and Number of Steps) from Perfect Unison to Perfect Fifth
P1 = 0 Steps
m2 = 1/2 Step
M2 = 1 Step
m3 = 1 1/2 Steps
M3 = 2 Steps
P4 = 2 1/2 Steps
Tritone = 3 Steps
P5 = 3 1/2 Steps

Five Items in a Mass Ordinary (with Translations and Typical Forms)
Kyrie - Lord Have Mercy - AB (Binary)
Gloria - Glory - Through-Composed
Credo - Creed - Through-Composed
Sanctus - Holy - ABCB (Verse-Chorus)
Agnus Dei - Lamb of God - AB  (Binary)

Listening
[7540] Gregorian Chant - Kyrie IV
[8085] Orkney Islands - Hymn to St. Magnus
[8133] Leonin - Hec Dies (This Is the Day)
[8844] Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
[8858] Giacomo Puccini - La Boheme: Act II
[8862] Claude Debussy - Preludes: The Sunken Cathedral

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Before this,


the daily rounds,


the Scholia Enchiriadis Rex Coelestis for Dictation / Board Harmony with the Theoreticians,


Owen's class dealing with Chorale-Style Closed Spacing,


returning home briefly for errands,


class preparation, and score-study pages 5-8 of Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, Op. 14.  After, out with Owen, then home to Harriet and Megan, composing page 7 Abducted by Aliens: I. 1965 Gemini VII Bogey, Op. 222.