June 17 - Start Your Engines


First day of the Diablo Valley College Summer 2013 semester --


returning to Piano after a number of years... new book, new ready-to-go group,


after


the


rather


early high-sun season commute.


Thereafter, south and


west,


through


and


over


the


ridges,


to


Piedmont Avenue


and


UC


Berkeley


Music


Library


to


consult the scores of Benjamin Britten's Suite for Violin and Piano: March and the opening re Witold Lutoslawski's Concerto for Orchestra: Passacaglia.


Reverse


course


uphill,


pick up the again-errant music stand at the Arts Festival,


then


wing it homeward


through


typical


scorched


splendor, to produce page 29 of Hamlet.


Back


on the road


yet again,


greet the Music Literature class in their first session: including air-violins,


a practice quiz, and


notes for the first real one...

F Lydian Scale
F G A B C D E F

F Major Scale
F G A Bb C D E F

Pattern of Whole and Half Steps in a Major Scale
WWHWWWH

Four Textures of Music
Monophonic - One line of music, strictly performed
Heterophonic - One line of music, freely performed
Polyphonic - More than one line of music, lines of equal importance
Homophonic - More than one line of music, one line more important

Listening
[5570] Syria - Hurrian Hymn No. 6
[6970] Turkey (Asia Minor) - Epitaph of Seikilos
[8813] Giuseppe Verdi - Aida: Triumphal March
[8844] Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
[8875] Maurice Ravel - Mother Goose Suite: III. The Princess of the Pagodas
[8899] Francis Poulenc - Double Piano Concerto: I

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Home late to score-study system 16 Alban Berg Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6, No. 1, on this  88th day of summer -- high 88.