June 30 - Going For...

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")

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 Accelerated Week 3 for the Morning and Evening Historians, 


Renaissancing our way towards the above --


commuting


there


and


an


eventual


leisurely 


back,


errands, paper-grading, subtitles for Abducted by Aliens: II. 214 BC Livy / 74 BC Plutarch --


returning



rapidly,


roundaboutedly


under


reticulated


reaches


down


radiant


roads


for


Round


2,


home late,


on the109th day of summer, high flaming up to 104, the third highest temperature of the year, after the pairs of 105's earlier this month on the 8th and 9th (58th 80-or-more, 25th 90+, fourth 100-or-better).