June 23 - In Perception


Blitzing


to


work


for


Week


2


of the summer


Music Literature classes (Medieval and various World Musics),


morning


and --


after 


the


seemingly


requisite


two-day-a-week,


mid-day,


round-trip


paper-grading,


etc.


along


the


edge --


evening, looking ahead below...


The above and below for Quiz 4, to be given 9:15pm, June 25, and 10am, June 26...

G Major
G A B C D E F# G

G Mixolydian
G A B C D E F G

G Dorian
G A Bb C D E F G

G Minor
G A Bb C D Eb F G

Four Types of Wind Instruments
End-Blown (Flute, Recorder)
Double Reed (Oboe, Bassoon)
Single Reed (Clarinet, Sax)
Lip Buzz (Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Tuba)

Three Types of Solid-Body Instruments
Metal (Bells, Cymbals)
Wood (Xylophone, Marimba)
Other (Earth, Stone, Glass)

Three Types of Strings
Suspended (Harp, Lyre)
Box (Zither, Piano)
Neck (Guitar, Lute, Piano)

Number of Steps in Intervals from Perfect Fifth to Octave
P5 = 3 1/2
m6 = 4
M6 = 4 1/2
m7 = 5
M7 = 5 1/2
P8 = 6

Listening
[8170] France - Ductia
[8170] Perotin - Hec Dies (This Is the Day)
[8210[ Thomas of Celano - Dies Irae (Day of Wrath)
[8220[ Ars Antiqua Motet - Alle Psallite (Alle Sing It)
[8270] Italy - Trotto
[8300] Guillaume de Machaut - Notre Dame Mass: I. Kyrie

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Page 25 composed for Cristobal Colon -- on the 102nd day of summer, high considerably up to 93 (51st at 80-or-more, 20th re 90) -- and more music sent out for The Opus Project presents Opus 18 (8pm, Saturday, June 28, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA), to wit:

Leonardo de Lorenzo (1875-1962) - Valse d'Automne, Op. 18, No. 2 (1917)
Anton Webern (1883-1945) - Song, Op. 18, No. 1 (1925)
Ernst Toch (1887-1964) - String Quartet No. 8, Op. 18, No. 1 (1909)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) - The Ugly Duckling, Op. 18: Piu mosso (1914)   
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975) - Spring, Op.18: Introduction (1914)       
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) - Trumpets, Op. 18, No. 8 (1920)       
Philip Glass (b. 1937) - Music in Similar Motion: Page 1 (1969)