February 27 - Fresh Voices XX

GOAT HALL PRODUCTIONS
San Francisco Cabaret Opera
presents
FRESH VOICES XX
In a Time of Social Distancing
7pm, Saturday, February 27, 2021
Zoom Meeting Everywhere
                
Carol Collins
     Octopus Tag (2018) (3 minutes)

               Carol Collins, Sound
               Ken McMurray, Video

               https://vimeo.com/497367068

Allan Crossman (b. 1942)
     The Border  (8 minutes)
          Distance
          Song of the Border
          Maps
          Dance of the Sun

               Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano
               Frederick Harris, Piano
               Meghan Dibble, Video

               https://youtu.be/Ezi4v_P7wi8

               https://youtu.be/9rLUOku1CVM

               https://youtu.be/XYsutCF5Yww

               https://youtu.be/RzCzBhjvWv4

          Citizen of the World (4 minutes)

               Margo Mackinnon, Mezzo-Soprano
               Allan Crossman, Piano
               Meghan Dibble, Video

               https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M5Ks-zpQ_rWWF2zfMP_I8eJwoFhNdYiV/view

John McGrew (b. 1943)
     Three Haiku (2011) (5 minutes)
          I. Breathe In and Out
          II. Sierra Pine Cone
          III. Winter Night Bird Sings

               Maria Mikheyenko, Voice
               Mark Alburger, Oboe
               John Bilotta, Piano
               John McGrew, Bass
               Fresh Voices XII
               Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera
               Goat Hall, San Francisco, CA (June 14, 2007)

               https://youtu.be/VXsRKSebzRc

Michael Kimbell (b. 1946, Viktoriya Neverov-Krstic)       
     Remembering for Atonement (5 minutes)
 
               Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
               Mission Dolores Basilica (November 5, 2016)

               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEk16UmDZls

John Bilotta (b. 1948)
     A Clear Midnight (2019, Walt Whitman) (3 minutes)

               Sarita Cannon, Soprano
               Libby Kardontchik, Piano

               https://youtu.be/5P48PGfpiQI

     Renaissance Songs (1976) (5 minutes)
          I. Prisoners
          II. The Silver Swan
          III. Aubade
          IV. Bitter-Sweet
          V. A Fancy

               Justin Marsh, Tenor
               Hadley McCarroll, Piano

              https://youtu.be/lryfi3y3B88

Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
     Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher, Op. 3 (1975)
           III. For Everything (1 minute)

               Mark Alburger, Tenor
               Fresh Voices VI
               Thick House, San Francisco, CA (May 21, 2006)
               New Music House, Vacaville, CA  (June 14, 2010)

               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4IfMqeqe2Q

     Poems on Crane, Op. 4  (1975, after Stephen Crane)
           I. I Saw a Man (2 minutes)

               Mark Alburger, Tenor
               Fresh Voices XIX
               Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA (November 23, 2019)
               New Music House, Vacaville, CA (March 7, 2011)

               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxNb8WXSvTo

     San Rafael News, Op. 51 (1995, after Percy Bysshe Shelley)
          V. Ozymandias (1 minute)

               Mark Alburger, Tenor
               Fresh Voices VI
               Thick House, San Francisco, CA (May 21, 2006)
               New Music House, Vacaville, CA (July 15, 2010)

               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsW9MJ17Tr8

     Job: A Masque, Op. 79 (1999)
          SCENE VIII - DIALOGUE III - Is There Someone (2 minutes)

               Satan / Zophar the Namaathite - Crystal Philippi
               Job - Marilyn Pratt
               God / Bildad the Shuhite - NM
               Elihu - Heather Klein
               Eliphaz the Temanite - Sarita Cannon
               Job's Wife - Kate Bautch
               Fresh Voices X
               Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera
               Lakeside Methodist Church, Oakland, CA (June 13, 2010)
               Live Oak Theatre, Berkeley, CA (June 17, 19, 2010)

               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsTToBw5M3c

     Antigone, Op. 88 (2000, after Sophocles and Jean Anouilh)
          XIII. Duet - Where Are You Going (1 minute)
          XV. Aria - You Think You Knew  (1 minute)
          
               Antigone - Letitia C. Page
               Creon - Micah Epps
               Haemon / Messenger / Guard III - Michael Desnoyers
               Ismene - Kimberly Anderman
               Nurse / Eurydice - Meghan Dibble
               Guard I - Maria Mikheyenko
               Guard II - EL
               Antigone's Handmaid - Alix Jerinic
               Ismene's Handmaid / Antigone Dancer - Dalyte Kodzis
               Oedipus / Haemon Dancer - William Loney
               Page - Lisa McHenry
              The Puppetmaster - Terence Bennan
              The Fixer - Adam Broner
              Artistic Director - Harriet March Page
              Music Director - Mark Alburger
              Piano - Keisuke Nakagoshi
              Fresh Voices II
              Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera
              Goat Hall, San Francisco, CA (August 3-5, 2001)
              The Next Stage, San Francisco, CA (November 8, 2008)

               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvbvzM0RxlM

               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZozzaBsf3o

     Cats, Dogs, and Divas, Op. 104 (2001, after Harriet March Page)
          XVI. The Proposition (2 minutes)
          XVII. Crazy (1 minute)

               Suzanna Mizell
               Sarah Hutchison
               Sandy Castleberry
               Maggie Tenenbaum
               Cynthia Weyuker
               Janet Lohr
               Stage / Artistic Director - Harriet March Page
               Music Director / Keyboard - Mark Alburger
               Choreographer - Mary Alice Fry
               Fresh Voices VI
               Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera
               Thick House, San Francisco, CA (May 25-27, 2006)
               Women on the Way Festival
               Dance Mission Theatre, San Francisco, CA (January 18-19, 2007)

               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqUTv5jmhEk

               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5RTDqn7JSQ

     Camino Real, Op. 110 (2003, after Tennessee Williams)
          Block 10 (3 minutes)

               LA MADRECITA - Harriet March Page
               THE DREAMER - William Loney
               MARGUERITTE - Eileen Meredith
               JACQUES CASANOVA - Ken Berry
               ESMERALDA - Suzanna Mizell
               GUTMAN - Brian Rosen
               GUARD - Karl Coryat
               ABDULLAH - Sandra Castleberry
               STREETCLEANER - Jane Goldsmith
               LOAN SHARK - Steven Clark
               KILROY - Mark Alburger
               THE GYPSY - Susan Clark
               DON QUIXOTE - Dale Murphy
               Fresh Voices V
               Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera
               Thick House, San Francisco, CA (August 20-22, 27-29, 2004)
               I Kill Me Music (2005, Video assemblage-alteration of June 2, 2011)

               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP8AZZYpjIY

     The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Op. 116 (2004, A Child's Opera, after Robert Browning)
          Overture - Rats! (1 minute)

               The Pied Piper / George Bush - Karl Coryat
               Narrator / Maria Shriver - Suzanna Mizell
               Mayor / Arnold Schwartzenegger - Noah Miller
               Corporation I / Diane Feinstein - Bianca Showalter
               Corporation II / Barbara Boxer - Maggie Tennenbaum
               Rat Stout As Julius Caesar / Osama bin Laden - William Loney
              One Was Lame / Lynndie England - Sandy Castleberry
              Stage and Music Director - Mark Alburger
              Fresh Voices VI: Pipers and Puppets
              Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera
              Thick House, San Francisco, CA (May 18-20, 2006)

               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z64F1ZA1mL4

     Waiting for Godot, Op. 128 (2005, after Samuel Beckett)
          I. Prelude - Nothing to Be Done (2 minutes)

               Estragon - Meghan Dibble
               Vladimir - Eliza O'Malley
               Pozzo / Lucky - Janet Lohr
               Lucky / Pozzo - Kat Cornelius
               Boy - Lea Grant
               Keyboard - Keisuke Nakagoshi
               Fresh Voices VII
               Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera
               Goat Hall, San Francisco, CA (June 14, 2007)

               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88iDZyGvalg

     Macbeth, Op. 328 (2019)
          Act III, Scene 3 (1 minute)

Helena Michelson (b. 1966)
     The Mysteries (2016) (10 minutes)

               Teressa Foss, Soprano
               Jamie Samantha Lee, Soprano
               Meghan Dibble, Mezzo-Soprano
               Frank Johnson, Piano
               John Bilotta, Video
               Fresh Voices XVII
               Bay Area Stage, 515 Broadway, Vallejo, CA (August 12, 2017)

               https://youtu.be/MXXFT5qPAdM

William Harvey (b. 1982)    (5 minutes)       
     Inclinado en las tardes (2020)

               Megan Cullen, Soprano
               Ben Malkevitch, Piano

Feona Lee Jones (b. 1986)
     Galvanization of the Goddess (2019, Feona Lee Jones) (5 minutes)

               Ann Moss, Soprano
               Siroko Flute Duo

               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euu8qacAk4k&ab_channel=FeonaLeeJones

February 24 - Renaissance Men and Women

Lo, how another Lecture-Playlist for DVC Music Appreciation ere blooming...

Mark Alburger - Renaissance Music (2. High to Late)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvy9gKJIh2U&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcdHpb5pz9PxscsbNtd2TBJf

Hear ye constituted as...

Mark Alburger - Renaissance Music (2a. Reformation)
Music of France, Ireland, Spain, Matteo Flecha, Martin Luther, Hugh Aston
https://youtu.be/Vvy9gKJIh2U

Mark Alburger - Renaissance Music (2b. Festa, Henry VIII)
Costanzo Festa, Henry VIII
https://youtu.be/5HQEc5kbrSg

Mark Alburger - Renaissance Music (2c. Henry VIII to Susato)
Henry VIII, Muslim Expulsion, Claudin de Sermsy, Guillaume le Heurteur, Tielman Susato
https://youtu.be/5TI3Z8fcXPE

Mark Alburger - Renaissance Music (2d. Susato to A. Gabrieli)
Tielman Susato, Sudan, Anne Boleyn, Louis Bourgeois, Andrea Gabrieli
https://youtu.be/U76QALS1WUo

Mark Alburger - Renaissance Music (2e. A. Gabrieli to Lasso)
Andrea Gabrieli, Claude Gervaise, Pierre Phalese, Thoinot Arbeau,
Giovanni Pierlugi da Palestrina, Orlando di Lasso
https://youtu.be/5B0mD6SyD6E

Mark Alburger - Renaissance Music (2f. Mainerio to Morley)
Giorgio Mainerio, Ireland, William Byrd, Pablo de Soto, Bolivia, Girard de Beaulieu,
Giulio Caccini, Giovanni Gabrielli, Anthony Holborne, Francisque Caroubel, Thomas Morley
https://youtu.be/XtJwL-Ib_vI

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[Baude Cordier(1380-1439)'s Belle, Bonne, Sage (Beautiful, Good, Wise, c. 1410) for DVC Music Appreciation Quiz 5 (Renaissance) -- pdf / jpg of Worksheet + 2 Lecture-Playlist Notes-o-the-Week, as email directly attached files by 6pm, Friday, February 26 (day before the 2nd Extra-Credit Concert -- Fresh Voices XX... 7pm, Saturday, February 27, email invitation sent out c. 1 hour prior!) to mus21stc@gmail.com...


A Natural (and Harmonic) Minor / Chords in C Major

Three Periods of Aesthetic History after Ancient and Before Classical - and Dates

Medieval - 400-1400
Renaissance - 1400-1600
Baroque - 1600-1750


Three Types of Triads (Chords) and Their Constituent Thirds and Fifths

Major Triad (MT) = Major Third (M3) + Perfect Fifth (P5)
Minor Triad (mT) = Minor Third (m3) + Perfect Fifth (P5)
Diminished Triad (dT) = Minor Third (m3) + Diminished Fifth (d5) (a.k.a. Tritone)


Listening


Gilles Binchois - Files a Marier (Don't Marry)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcEVHp6ozcU&feature=youtu.be (@13:49)
(Recording and Score)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Binchois

https://books.google.com/books?id=8gwToY1HEoIC&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=Files+a+Marier&source=bl&ots=u59tx14DnB&sig=4PCzDqMK9keX52yadb2LkFtMDUA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCha6epKLZAhUnxoMKHe1hBE0Q6AEITDAI#v=onepage&q=Files%20a%20Marier&f=false


Conrad Paumann - Mit Ganczem Willen (With All my Heart)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLvi6ibkbso&feature=youtu.be (@ 14:01)
(Recording and Score)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Paumann


Josquin des Pres - El Grillo (The Cricket)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI-bQ0RkArA
(Recording and Score)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josquin_des_Prez

https://www.allmusic.com/composition/el-grillo-song-for-4-parts-mc0002358561

Costanzo Festa - Quando Ritrova (When I Find My Shepherdess)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HQEc5kbrSg&feature=youtu.be (@ 4:25)
(Recording and Score --
Performance rhythms are markedly different than notation, and measures 14-16 omitted --
Music is repeated in "double" ["doobla"] style, with improvisation in upper shawm line)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costanzo_Festa


Andrea Gabrieli - Ricercar in the 12th Mode (Research in the 12th Mode)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B0mD6SyD6E&feature=youtu.be (@ 3:02)
(Recording and Score)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Gabrieli


Carlo Gesualdo - Moro, Lasso (Alas, I Die)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dVPu71D8VI
(Recording and Score)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Gesualdo

https://www.allmusic.com/composition/moro-lasso-al-mio-duolo-madrigal-for-5-voices-book-6-w-6-74-mc0002361403

February 22 - Shrouded in Mystery

Mark Alburger - Renaissance Music (1. Early to High)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPCXNN-l3Bg&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcc8q0ja7xTjmJoHS2bxOUcM

The specs (which were first sported in Europe during this time)...

Mark Alburger - Renaissance Music (1a. According to Petrarch)
Geisslerlied Composer, Jacopo da Bologna, Vincenzo da Rimini,
Gherardello da Firenze, Francesco Landini, Herman Monk of Salzburg
https://youtu.be/zPCXNN-l3Bg

Mark Alburger - Renaissance Music (1b. Tangles of the Heart and Mind)
Johannes Ciconia, Baude Cordier, John Dunstable,
Lionel Power, Korean and Harpsichord Music, Richard Smert
https://youtu.be/b86he2KXLb0

Mark Alburger - Renaissance Music (1c. Runaway Success)
Richard Smert, Gilles Binchois, Guillaume Dufay
https://youtu.be/hcEVHp6ozcU

Mark Alburger - Renaissance Music (1d. Wandering Wondering)
Guillame Dufay, Romanian and Clavichord Music, Conrad Paumann
https://youtu.be/kLvi6ibkbso

Mark Alburger - Renaissance Music (1e. Paumann to Josquin)
Conrad Paumann, Antoine Busnois, Johannes Ockeghem, Nigerian Music, Josquin des Pres
https://youtu.be/ze1zGq4mEZQ

Mark Alburger - Renaissance Music (1f. Josquin)
Josquin des Pres - Frottola, Mass, Motet
https://youtu.be/xoQ7kJa6TTA

February 17 - Askew

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music II (2. Antiqua to Nova)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG4qvtUpby0&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcdB2FIdztKEuoszUs6VV87Z

As...

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music II (2a. Progression of Minnesingers)
Walther von der Vogelweide - Palastinalied (5 Versions);
Neidhart von Ruenthal - Minnesinger Song; Thibaut de Blason - Chanson
https://youtu.be/zG4qvtUpby0

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music II (2b. 1200 and Counting)
Music of Bolivia, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Indonesia, France, and Italy
https://youtu.be/EoqNX4BLNeI

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music II (2c. Alle Sing It)
Ars Antiqua Motet - Alle Psallite cum Luya / Alleluya (5 Versions)
https://youtu.be/0LiSHNEIcTQ
(N.B. Blocked in Austria, Germany, Lichtenstein, and Switzerland

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music II (2d. Transitions)
Ars Antiqua Motet, Alfonso X (El Sabio), Thomas Aquinas,
English Trope and Dance, Ars Nova Motet
https://youtu.be/UZT_kDry36U

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music II (2e. World Wind)
Italian Dances, School of Worcester, Jehan de l'Escurel, English Round,
Gervais de Bus, The Robertsbridge Codex, Music of Gabon and India
https://youtu.be/wr1HFwx1_jo

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music II (2f. Machaut)
Guillaume de Machaut - Ballade, Virelai, Hocket, Crab Canon, Mass
https://youtu.be/XLSYHWbi9xE

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[Ah, the mating game towards DVC Appreciation Medieval Music II (Quiz 4) -- blank copy pdf group-emailed presently, due completed, along w/ the two sets of Weekly Notes, as attached pdfs or jpgs to mus21stc@gmail.com, by 6pm Friday, February 19...]


Four G Scales / Modes

Subdivisions of Instruments

Four Types of Winds (Aerophones)

End-Blown (Flute / Harmonica)
Double-Reed (Oboe / Bassoon)
Single-Reed (Clarinet / Sax)
Lip-Buzz (Trumpet / Horn / Trombone / Tuba)

Three Types of Solid-Body Percussion (Idiophones)

Metal (Bells / Vibraphone)
Wood (Marimba / Xylophone)
Other (Earth / Glass / Stone)

Three Types of Strings (Chordophones)

Suspended (Harp / Lyre)
Box (Piano / Zither)
Neck (Guitar / Lute / Violin / Viola / Cello / Bass)


Intervals from Perfect Fifth (P5) to Perfect Octave (P8), and Number of Steps in Each

P5 = 3 1/2 Steps
m6 = 4
M6 = 4 1/2
m7 = 5
M7 = 5 1/2
P8 = 6


Listening 
Please Identify by Composer / Region / Genre [as noted], and Title [and Movement, if needed] --
and write at least one complete educated sentence on each
Reminders
    here and elsewhere parentheses denote alternate title -- you may use either
    usually a last name will suffice re composers
        in case of ambiguity, sufficient name has been underlined for your reference...


France - Ductia (Duet Dance)
https://youtu.be/QUWa0dUS2QQ (@ 9:00)
(with score! --
Florilegium version, featuring bombards [oboes], vielles [violins], and drum...
the four 8-bar sections are played 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 1, 2 -- and then repeated again in the same order)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_dance


Perotin - Hec Dies (This Is the Day)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCWGvBFiruY&feature=youtu.be (@ 11:21)
(with score!)

Another version, billed as the more properly spelled Haec Dies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SURQLgCmKRk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pérotin


Ars Antiqua Motet - Alle - Psallite (Alle - Sing It)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LiSHNEIcTQ&feature=youtu.be (@ 9:43)
(with score!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alle_Psallite_Cum_Luya


Guillaume de Machaut - Notre Dame Mass (La Messe de Nostre Dame): I. Kyrie

https://youtu.be/JFQhQKOfe7k
(with score!)

Another version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC--chUz_vQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_de_Machaut

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messe_de_Nostre_Dame

http://imslp.org/wiki/Missa_de_Notre_Dame_(Machaut,_Guillaume_de) (score)


Gherardello da Firenze - Tosto che l'Alba (Soon as the Dawn)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok4VOFvLE2Y (with score!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gherardello_da_Firenze

February 15 - Springing Forward

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music II (1. Ars Antiqua)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzuvNk6hxgA&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcfapBFy2iaHYGXj8DTtvn2d

Six Complete (Sex Perficiendum -- in Latin!)

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music II (1a. Troubadours)
Guiraut de Bornelh - Reis Glorios (Glorious King);
Raimbaut de Vaqueiras - Kalenda Maya (The First of May)
https://youtu.be/EzuvNk6hxgA

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music II (1b. Trobairitz, Trouveres)
Beatriz, Comtessa de Dia (Countess of Die) - I Must Sing, Though I'd Rather Not;
Richard Coeur-de-Lion (the Lionheart) - Ja Nuns Hons Pris (No Captive Knows);
Conon de Bethune - Ahi! Amours (Alas, Love)
https://youtu.be/mCF47f1web4

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music II (1c. Song and Dance)
France - Chansonier Cange; England - Estampie
https://youtu.be/wMIV9Tt-V70

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music II (1d. Manuscrit du Roi)
Bagpipe and Shawm Dances; Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Estampies Real
https://youtu.be/8W3xtiX4aYA

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music II (1e. Duet Dance)
France - Ductia (6 Versions!); Mark Alburger - History Phases, Op. 153: XII
https://youtu.be/QUWa0dUS2QQ

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music II (1f. Gothic Ecstasy)
Colin Muset - Chansonnette; Liturgical Drama - The Play of Daniel; Perotin - Hec Dies (2 Versions)
https://youtu.be/XCWGvBFiruY

February 10 - Darkness and Light

OK, the Impeachment Trial (II!) distracted me -- sorry!  But here's the next video-playlist below to sooth mind and soul -- and to be duly noted by 6pm, this Friday, February 12 (as attached pdf or jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com).

Following playlist (under the second picture), Information for Quiz 3 (Medieval Music I)...

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music I (2. Romanesque to Gothic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1UCVL6hOsQ&list=PLtV-SdP8TZccH9EGGH3cjMt1Q4y36f3yO
(N.B. YouTube wants to start this playlist on video 3!
Once playlist is opened on YouTube, best to click first video at top right!)

Complete as...

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music I (2a. Notable)
Scholia Enchiriadis, Notker the Stammerer, Tuotillo, Free Organum,
Music of the Goliards and India, Guido d'Arezzo
https://youtu.be/8ml2fr28NHs

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music I (2b. Migrations)
Navajo, Latin, and Turkish Music
https://youtu.be/fwYE-Xt1FBY

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music I (2c. The Scottish Countenance)
Orkney Islands - Hymn to St. Magnus (7 Versions!); Mark Alburger - History Phases, Op. 153: VIII
https://youtu.be/X1UCVL6hOsQ

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music I (2d. Crusades)
School of Compostela - Cunctipotens Genitor; France - Dance Royale I;
Hildegard von Bingen - O Successores
https://youtu.be/3JEDxRGXEms

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music I (2e. Hindustani Sojourn)
Ravi Shankar - The Sounds of India: I. An Introduction to Indian Music, III. Maru-Bihag,
Gandhi: IV. Discovery of India
https://youtu.be/iLAsxVERBIU

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music I (2f. The School of Notre Dame)
Gregorian Chant - Haec Dies; Leonin - Hec Dies
https://youtu.be/R4ADcTswqCU

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[Gregory the Great, suited up and ready to hear Gregorian Chant as part of Quiz 3 (Medieval Music I) for Diablo Valley College Music Appreciation -- blank copy pdf will be group-emailed soon, and due, as usual, as above...]


Medieval Music I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_music


D Dorian, D Minor, and E Phrygian:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_mode

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_minor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_mode


Five Items of the Mass Ordinary, in Order - with Translations and - Typical Forms:

Kyrie - Lord Have Mercy - ABA (Ternary)
Gloria - Glory - Through-Composed (ongoing composition with no particular recurring pattern)
Credo - Creed (I Believe) - Through-Composed
Sanctus (Holy) - ABCB (Verse-Chorus)
Agnus Dei - Lamb of God - AB (Binary)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_(liturgy)


Intervals from Perfect Unison to Perfect Fifth, and Number of Steps in Each:

Perfect Unison (P1) = 0 Steps
Minor Second (m2) = 1/2 Step
Major Second (M2) = 1 Step
Minor Third (m3) = 1 1/2 Steps
Major Third (M3) = 2 Steps
Perfect Fourth (P4) = 2 1/2 Steps
Tritone = 3 Steps
Perfect Fifth (P5) = 3 1/2 Steps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(music)


Listening:
 
[Identify by Composer (or Region, as given) and Title and describe
re one or more of the following catagories

Rhythm
Pitch
Dynamics
Timbre (Tone-Color)
Texture
Harmony
Form
Context]


Gregorian Chant - Kyrie IV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BphlyIVXyWQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_chant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyriale


Orkney Islands - Hymn to St. Magnus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zciDnkMjfE

https://wikihost.uib.no/medieval/index.php/Sanctus_Magnus_dux


India - Raga Maru Bihag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7-D29IxHQo
(with score!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_classical_music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raga


Leonin - Hec Dies (The Is the Day)

https://youtu.be/CWFxek2caAE
(with score)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9onin

February 8 - Bowling for Tones

Welcome to Medieval Music I!  6 linked videos below -- please send notes (c. 300-500 words) on same, as attached pdf or jpg (to mus21stc@gmail.com) by 6pm, this Friday, February 12. 

Thanks to those who have attended the optional Zoom Meetings in the last two weeks... planning on similar today, 11am Monday, February 8 -- Hope to see you then!

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music I (1. Rome to Romanesque)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK8Bg315V8Y&list=PLtV-SdP8TZccUYnKfWuBkBzS32F5Y9Z8m

Sex autem perficiendum!... (Latin: "Six will make it complete").
The below simply being the consituent parts of above...

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music I (1a. Beginnings of the Middle)
Music of India, Mauritania, Tibet, Hungary, Turkey,
France, North America, Australia, and Japan
https://youtu.be/KK8Bg315V8Y

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music I (1b. Introit, Kyrie)
Gregorian Chant - Gaudeamus, Kyrie IV
https://youtu.be/0-OxAlwIQps

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music I (1c. Kyrie to Gradual)
Gregorian Chant - Kyrie IV, VIII, XI; Psalm 146 with Antiphon
https://youtu.be/Tf5hqVwveW0

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music I (1d. Gradual to Vespers)
Gregorian Chant - Haec Dies; Deus in Adjutorium
https://youtu.be/kDTVOfLRzro
 
Mark Alburger - Medieval Music I (1e. Pilgrimage)
Music of Arabia, Yemen, Iran, Syria, Palestine / Israel, Tunisia, and Morocco
https://youtu.be/DtI9xuLOczQ

Mark Alburger - Medieval Music I (1f. Roaming to Romanesque)
Music of Japan, Iraq, Arabia, France, and Gambia
https://youtu.be/mbA6P3-FtzE

February 3 - In Memoriam

Second playlist for Week 2 of Music Appreciation -- c. 300-500 words as usual...
attached pdf / jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com by 6pm, Friday, February 5

Information for Quiz 2 is just under the Egyptian Musicians photo below!

Optional Zoom get-together -- 11am, Monday, February 8

Will send group email c. 15 minutes prior...


Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (2. That Which Survives)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgJ51XJUpfU&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcePAGJ29NM47kCdycpze7aC

Details of above, below...

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (2a. Preservation Hall)
Syria - Hurrian Hymn No. 6; Egypt - Trumpets of Tutankhamun
https://youtu.be/UgJ51XJUpfU

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (2b. Harmony and Hymns)
Matt Small - Trumpet of Tutankhamun; Harmonic Series;
China - Entrance Hymn for the Emperor; Israel - Jewish Chant
https://youtu.be/_0UNCS_adqg

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (2c. Spirit of Ages)
Music of Central Africa, Greece, India, China, and Angola
https://youtu.be/nVARs8LkebE

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (2d. It's All Greek)
Seikilos - Epitaph (14 versions!)
https://youtu.be/7R9IqaS01uI

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (2e. Cantus Firmus)
Syriac and Coptic Orthodox Music; Roman and Ambrosian Chant; Tassin - Dance Tune;
Robertsbridge Codex - Organ Estampie No. 3
https://youtu.be/UZ-e8EGJjc8

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (2f. World Beat)
Music of Indonesia, South Africa, Tanzania, Mozambique,
Crete, Uganda, Kenya, Tahiti, Zimbabwe, and Ethiopia
https://youtu.be/HDJ224EuXiY


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[Early Egyptians marching towards Diablo Valley College Music Appreciation
Quiz 2 (Ancient Music)] -- blank copy of same will be group emailed today --
if you don't receive, you might want to check email spam folder! --
please email completed copy (and lecture notes) as attached pdf / jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com or
my school email, by 6pm, Friday, February 5!

There's actually never any penalty for late notes,
and only a modest one for late quizzes (A- max, rather than A).
Deadlines flexible (until I turn in grades),
certainly not late until I grade, which is toward end of the next week.

I will be contacting each of you individually soon, re scores of Week 1...

Thank you!


Information for Quiz 2


 F Lydian and Major (in Bass Clef, with Half Notes)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydian_mode

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_major



Major Scale Whole Step / Half Step Pattern (C)

... in Bass Clef, with Half Notes

... on a musical keyboard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitone



Four Texures of Music 


Monophonic - One line of music, strictly performed

Heterophonic - One line of music, freely performed

Polyphonic - More than one line of music, with lines of equal importance

Homophonic - More than one line of music, with one line more important than the others

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_(music)



Listening


California (Yurok) - Women's Brush Dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDIJYCI5lU0

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/native-americans-in-california-c-8000.html
(information with notation)


China - Entrance Hymn for the Emperor

https://youtu.be/xOew2QNvrDU
(with notation!)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/05/king-kang-of-chou-reigned-1021-996-bc.html
(information with notation)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBbOYeIxBhM
(alternative video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bilTiAwk18
(second alternative video)


Seikilos - Epitaph

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwYQ_bmkbZs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilos_epitaph
(information with notation)


(The lecture playlist-videos of the week, of course, have commentaries and recordings on all 3 above)


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Oh, and here's a great link, provided by one of your classmates re Byzantine /
Greek Orthodox Chant -- enriched by acoustics captured in Hagia Sophia!

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/22/808404928/listen-the-sound-of-the-hagia-sophia-more-than-500-years-ago

February 1 - Charming

Good Morning Music Appreciation!

(I didn't have any snakes to charm, so I had to settle for two plastic dinosaurs and an alligator...)

Well.. here's the third playlist, notes as usual by 6pm, Friday -- this time February 5--
Again, c. 300-500 words re notes as attached pdfs / jpgs to mus21stc@gmail.com -- thanks!

Zoom Get-Together today, as well, same time as last week -- 11am,
sending group email invite c. 15 minutes previously...

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (1. Antique Voices of Cultures)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Piu197zgUGM&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcdxDalJxLbRlODHxOKph0OU&index=1

A Big Ancient 6, consisting of...

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (1a. Winds of Changes)
India - Keralite Snake Charmer; Oboes and Clarinets
https://youtu.be/Piu197zgUGM

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (1b. Piper Dreams)
Palestine - Shepherd's Pipe; Bamboo and Brass
https://youtu.be/knnUKeyElFU

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (1c. Polyphony and Percussion)
India - Keralite Snake Charmer; Palestine - Shepherd's Pipe; Metallic Idiophones
https://youtu.be/BLJCmhotsr4

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (1d. Dances of Ages)
Seneca - Alligator Dance; Yurok - Women's Brush Dance; Wooden Idiophones
https://youtu.be/HaQImnaDkG4

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (1e. Antecedent of Ways)
Iraq - The Passion of 1,001 Nights; Lydian Mode, Bass Clef, Membranophones
https://youtu.be/27YMHy2tddg

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (1f. As the World Tunes)
China - The Strumming of an Old Man in a Refined State of Intoxication /
Autumn Moon; Egypt - Zummara Improvisation / Saiyidi Melody; Chordophones, Electrophones
https://youtu.be/lkwjaeJN55s