September 3 - Another Day in Paradise



Back


to


it


all,


beyond


the


boulevards, beginning a brisk Week 3 with the Theoreticians -- D Dorian and Minor, E Phrygian, Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9: IV. Ode to Joy theme (but in C) for Dictation / Keyboard-Solfege / Board Harmony (anachronistically harmonized in perfect fifths above), Intervals from P1 to P5, and the beginning of Round 1 for imaginative Student Compositions --


visiting Monty and


Owen's classes briefly,


then retrograde


to refuge,


paper-grading


and


class


preparation,


advancing


ahead


to


the


evening class, where Music Ancient and inspired by same segues into the Early Medieval, looking ahead to Late...


D Dorian
D E F G A B C D

D Minor
D E F G A Bb C D

E Phrygian
E F G A B C D E

Five Items in a Mass Ordinary (Translations) - Typical Forms
Kyrie (Lord Have Mercy) - ABA (Binary)
Gloria (Glory) - Through-Composed
Credo (Creed) - Through-Composed
Sanctus (Holy) - ABCB (Verse-Chorus)
Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) - AB (Binary)

Number of Steps in Intervals from Perfect Unison to Fifth
P1 = 0 Steps
m2 = 1/2 Step
M2 = 1 Step
m3 = 1 1/2 Stepes
M3 = 2 Steps
P4 = 2 1/2 Steps
Tritone = 3 Steps
P5 = 3 1/2 Steps

Listening
[7540] Gregorian Chant - Kyrie IV
[8085] Orkney Islands - Hymn to St. Magnus
[8133] Leonin - Hec Dies (This is the Day)
[8844] Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
[8958] Giacomo Puccini - La Boheme: Act II
[8962] Claude Debussy - Piano Preludes: The Sunken Cathedral

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Late? Yes!  Page 15 composed for Psalm 102 and At a Medical Deposition, noting this as the 163rd day of summer, high two degrees lower at 87.