September 16 - Culinary Tour de Contra Costa


Around


and


about,


off


beauteously


to


Diablo Valley College Music Theory for the Harmonic Ambiguities of Costanzo Festa's Quando Ritrova,


then


Safeway Starbucks,


followed


by the Lab,


Denny's,


paper-


grading


at


Elephant


Bar


and


Safeway again (go figure),


returning


for the


evening class, proceeding through the Late Medieval towards the Renaissance, as below.


A [Harmonic] Minor
A  B    C    D  E    F   G   A
                                  [G#]
Do Re Me Fa Sol Le Te Do
                                  [Ti]

Chords in C Major
C Dm Em F   G Am Bdim C
I   ii     iii  IV V  vi   viio     I


Three Stylistic Periods after Ancient and before Classical
(and approximate dates)
Medieval - 400-1400
Renaissance - 1400-1600
Baroque -  1600-1750

Three Types of Triads and their Intervals
Major Triad = M3 + P5
Minor Triad = m3 + P5
Diminished Triad = m3 + d5

Listening
[8400] Giles Binchois - Files a Marier (Don't Marry)
[8415] Conrad Paumann - Mit Ganczem Willen (With my Whole Heart)
[8450] Josquin des Pres - El Grillo (The Cricket)
[8491] Henry VIII - Pastime with Good Company
[8510] Andrea Gabrieli - Ricercar in the 12th Mode (Research in the 12th Mode)
[8525] Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Pope Marcellus Mass: I. Kyrie

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Out with Doug thereafter, so... five places of eat-and-drink in one day... likely to be a record... returning to begin composition of Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1902 Richard Strauss, on the 186th day of summer, high again down, now to 91 (131st and 70th days of 80-90+), though 3 degrees less (88) Diablowise...