June 19 - Conducting Lives


Second session with the summer Music Historians -- selections from Ancient and traditional musics, looking ahead to matters Medieval and beyond...


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
(with Translations and
Typical Forms)
Kyrie - Lord Have Mercy - ABA (Ternary)
Gloria - Glory - Through-Composed
Credo - Creed - Through-Composed
Sanctus - Holy - ABCB (Verse-Chorus)
Agnus Dei - Lamb of God - AB (Binary)

Steps in Intervals from P1 to P5
P1 = 0 Steps
m2 = 1/2 Step
M2 = 1 Step
m3 = 1 1/2 Step
M3 = 2 Steps
P4 = 2 1/2 Stpes
Tritone = 3 Steps
P5 = 3 1/2 Steps

[7540] Gregorian Chant - Kyrie IV
[7682] Morocco - Lala Fatima
[8100] India - Raga Maru Bihag
[8170] Leonin - Hec Dies (This Is the Day)
[8958] Giacomo Puccini - La Boheme (The Bohemians): Act II
[8962] Claude Debussy - - Piano Prelude: The Sunken Cathedral

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Another early start to the day (better get used to it over this six-week stint),


the third session for the Pianists,


more paper-grading at Elephant


Bar,


returning through dale and over hill to the


environs of


UC Berkeley


Music Library, this time with the first scene of Sergei Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel in mind,


then onward -- via Hearst


multi-


faceted


I-


80,


and


errands --


homeward


for class preparation and composition re page 31 of Hamlet,


zig-zagging to and fro for the evening class, and beginning score-study for Paul Hindemith's Eight Waltzes, Op. 6, No. 1, on this 90th day of summer -- marking three full months of summerlike highs before the official astronomical start of the season -- again, high of 80...