D Major Scale:
Two Sharps - F# top line, C# second-to-top space, and farther to right
D E F# G A B C# D
A Major:
Three Sharps - first two as above -- then, still farther to right, G# above top line
A B C# D E F# G# A
E Major:
Four Sharps - first three as above -- even farther to right, D# on second-to-top line
E Minor:
Just F#
E F# G A B C D E
Three Typical Genres in Baroque Music, with Characteristic Movements:
Opera
Overture
Recitative
Aria (Duet, Trio, Quartet...)
Chorus
-
-
-
Suite
Overture
Dance I
Dance II
.
.
.
Concerto
Fast
Slow
Fast
J..S. Bach's Birth and Death Dates, and Style Periods
(Place of Activity - Typical Type of Music Written):
(1685-1750)
Weimar - Organ
Cothen - Instrumental
Leipzig - Vocal
Listening:
[8567[ Claudio Monteverdi - Vespers: I. Deus in Adjutorium (I. God in the House)
[8585] Heinrich Schutz - Saul, Saul
[8659] Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas: Dido's Lament (When I Am Laid in Earth)
[8678] Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria: I. Gloria
[8685] J.S. Bach - Organ Fugue in G Minor ("The Little")
[8685] G.F. Handel - Messiah: Hallelujah
***
Above being the plan for next week with the
Music Historians, who for today have Quiz 5, with selections ranging from Binchois's Files a Marier to Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass: Kyrie.
The day begins in score study of Varese Octandre 17-18,
the requisite
Diablo
passaggio, review for the Theoretians of various concepts keyed to repertory ranging from Monteverdi to J.S. Bach, somewhat analogous to aforesaid in the night class' nextweek.
Homeward
mid-day
to correct papers,
and
the
evening
transit,
looping
up
to
the
top
of
the page, so to speak. Somehow the daily dose of musical items is also done, extending latenight, including:
Beginning pdf of Lot in Life, Op. 36
Doing detail edit of The Decameron - Second Day: VII (21-24)
Composing a third page of Decameron - Third Day: I.
Emailing Ecclesiastes Tropes: IV to Debby How
