March 1 - To Its Own Beat

D Major (2 Sharps in Key Signature F# C#)

D E F# G A B C# D


A Major (3 Sharps in Key Signature F# C# G#)

A B C# D E F# G# A


E Major (4 Sharps in Key Signature F# C# G# D#)

E F# G# A B C# D# E


E Minor (1 Sharp in Key Signature F#)

E F# G A B C D E


Three Typical Genres of Baroque Music (and movements)

Opera

Overture
Recitative
Aria (Duet, Trio, Quartet, etc.)
Chorus
.
.
.
(etc.)

Suite
Overture
Dance I
Dance II
.
.
.
(etc.)

Concerto
Fast
Slow
Fast


J.S. Bach Dates, Stylistic Periods, and Types of Music Written

(1685-1750)
Weimar - Organ
Cothen - Instrumental
Leipzig - Vocal


Listening

[8567] Claudio Monteverdi - Vespers: I. Deus in Adjutorium (God in the House)

[8585] Heinrich Schutz - Saul, Saul

[8659] Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas: When I Am Laid in Earth (Dido's Lament)

[8678] Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria: I. Gloria

[8685] J.S. Bach - Fugue in G Minor ("Little")

[8685] G.F. Handel - Messiah: Hallelujah

***

Well,

yes,

and

down

the

freeways

(sky

filligreed,

furled,

ablaze)

and

bywayic

divertissements,

eventually

re-

beelining

to

Diablo

Valley

College and the

Theoreticians,

for an encounter with J.S. Bach's Organ Passacaglia in C Minor as Dictation /

Board Harmony,

finishing up imaginative Student Compositions 1.

Proceed

apace to

UC Berkeley for rather a lot of research re The Opus Project presents Opus 39: Strange But True! (8pm, Saturday, March 26, 2016, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA), namely...

Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949)            The Heart, Op. 39 (1931)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)        Kol Nidre, Op. 39 (1938)
Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957)        Penthesilea, Op. 39 (1925)
Ernst Toch (1887-1965)            Spiel for Wind Orchestra, Op. 39 (1926)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)    The Limpid Stream, Op. 39 (1935)       
Jean Langlais (1907-1991)            True Story, Op. 39, No. 1
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)            Andromach's Farewell, Op. 39 (1962)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)        Artinis, Op. 39 (1945)
Jan Koetzier (1911-2006)            Frans Hals, Op. 39 (1949)

+ full score to Ernst Krenek (1900-1991) - Jonny spielt auf, Op. 45 (1925), re Alma...

Reverse-

course

post-

haste

to

grade

plentious

papers,

then off again

for the

evening's festvities, returning late (18th day of summer, high again 73)

to produce visual libretto and the piano-vocal score for Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232: X. 1888 - Alma Maria Schindler (Photograph II) +

begin composition of Variations on the Romanesca, Op. 251 ( bIII-bVII-i-V / bIII-bVII-i-V-i) in homage to the earliest extant variation set: I. Luis De Narvaez (1490-1547) - Differences sobre Gardeme las Vacas (1538)...