Down to Erling's in the
evening for another San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra Board meeting, just after the successes of the last show, yet already planning for the next (8pm, Saturday, October 4, Old First Presbyterian Church, SF) --
getting
there
via
another
active
day
down
the
fog-
filigreed
freeway,
free-wheeling
with
the
Music Historians, final raps of the Renaissance and looking beyond to...
***
Baroque...
D Major (key signature - two sharps - F#, C#)
D E F# G A B C# D
A Major (key signature - three sharps - F#, C#, G#)
A B C# D E F# G# A
E Major (key signature - four sharps - F#, C#, G#, D#)
E F# G# A B C# D# E
E Minor (key signature - one sharp - F#)
E F# G A B C D E
Three Typical Genres in Baroque Music, and Movements
Suite
Overture
Dance I
Dance II
.
.
.
Opera
Overture
Recitative
Aria (Duet, Trio, Quartet, Quintet...)
Chorus
.
.
.
Concerto
Fast
Slow
Fast
J.S. Bach (1685-1750) - Three Creative Periods (City - Type of Music)
Weimar - Organ
Cothen - Instrumental
Leipzig - Vocal
Listening
[8567] Claudio Monteverdi - Vespers: I. Deus in Adjutorium (God in the House)
[8575] Heinrich Schutz - Saul, Saul
[8650] Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas: When I Am Laid in Earth (Dido's Lament)
[8678] Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria: I. Gloria
[8685] G.F. Handel - Messiah: Hallelujah
[8685] J.S. Bach - Organ Fugue in G Minor ("The Little")
***
Homeward
thereafter,
skirting more
striking scenarios, with supertitles for the third Abducted by Aliens video (III. 1561 - Nuremberg Celestial Phenomenon),
a
eureka
moment
re
SFCCO,
and
hie
to
the
highways for the get-together,
on the 110th of summer,
high way back down to 89
(59th 80-or-above)...
