How
many
times
do
we
have
the
opportunity
to
proceed
down
these
corridors?
At
least
another
one
today...
through
continuingly
beautiful,
calm-yet-turbulent
condictions...
joining the Diablo Valley College Music Theoreticians for Costanzo Festa's Quando Ritrova as Dictation and Board Harmony, with phrases in D Minor and F Major -- followed by the beginning of Round 1 Student Compositions -- a wonderful start!
Linger in Owen's class for,
where a Soprano ascent of Re-Mi, in a Dominant 7th - Tonic Cadence, leads to a Doubled Third.
Reverse
course
in
the
spectacularity,
violent
plays
of
light
and
shadow
under
the
increasing
clouds
north --
grading papers, producing poster for The Opus Project presents Opus 14 (8pm, Saturday February 14, Berkeley Arts Festival, 2133 University Avenue),
mailing Journals,
and
returning for the
evening class, where we proceed from the Medieval French Ductia through Guillaume de Machaut's Notre Dame Mass: Kyrie I and a later spin on Thomas of Celano's Dies Irae (that being Franz Liszt's Totentanz)... looking further afield as the below:
A Minor
A B C D E F G A
Do Re Me Fa Sol e Te Do
A Harmonic Minor
A B C D E F G# A
Do Re Me Fa Sol Le Ti Do
Chords in C Major
C Dm Em F G Am Bdim C
I ii iii IV V vi viio I
Three Types of Triads in Major Scales
Major Triad = Major 3rd + Perfect Fifth
Minor Triad = Minor 34d + Perfect Fifth
Diminished Triad = Minor 34d + Dmininished Fifth
Three Periods of Music After Ancient and Before Classical, with Dates
Medieval 400-1400
Renaissance 1400-1600
Baroque 1600-1750
Listening
Giles Binchois - Files a Marier (Don't Marry)
Conrad Paumann - Mit Ganczem Willen (With My Whole Heart)
Josquin des Pres - El Grillo (The Cricket)
Henry VIII - Pastime with Good Company
Andrea Gabrieli - Ricercar in the 12th Mode (Research in the 12th Mode)
Palestrina - Pope Marcellus Mass: I. Kyrie
***
Out with Owen and Tim afterwards,
and
homeward to compose page 10 of Abducted by Aliens: III. 1561 Nuremberg Celestial Phenomenon, and edit a second sheet for The Decameron - Fourth Day: Novel III "Three Young Men Love Three Sisters".
