April 15 - Retrograde Retrospect


Write a Minimalist Passage
(music with repeated patterns)

Three Typical C 7th Chords
C Major 7 (CM7)   C Dominant 7th (C7)  C Minor 7th (Cm7)
B                                Bb                                Bb
G                                G                                  G
E                                E                                   Eb
C                                C                                   C

Three Stylistic Periods After the Baroque and Before Present, with Dates
Classical (1750-1825)
Romantic (1825-1900)
20th Century (1900-2000)

Three Typical 7th Chords, Their Triads and 7th Intervals
Major 7th Chord =                Major Triad + Major 7th Interval
Dominant 7th Chord =          Major Triad + Minor 7th Interval
Minor 7th Chord =                Minor Triad + Minor 7th Interval

Listening
[8951] Sting - Every Breath You Take
[8957] Mark Alburger - Camino Real: Block 9
[8957] Tan Dun - Ghost Opera
[8958] Prince - Darling Nikki
[8958] Erling Wold - Sub Pontio Pilato: Credo
[8960] Osvaldo Golijov - Oceana

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The Music Historians proceed from Lionel Bart, Lalo Shifrin, John Williams, and Terry Riley to John Adams, and beyond, as at top....


Before this,



getting there,


having left


from same,


and spent time in Music Theory, Voice Leading with Inversions and Seventh Chords re Roger Waters's Shine On You Crazy Diamond: III.


Even


previous


the


morning


transport, and, somewhere in there, edit page 3 of The Decameron - Fourth Day: IX. Sieur Guillaume de Roussillon Slays his Wife's Paramour, on the 41st day of summer, back into the 80's, 9th such of the season, at exactly the mark.