Write a Minimalist Passage
A series of pitches and rhythms utilizing repetition
Three Typical C Seventh Chords
C Major 7th
B
G
E
C
C Dominant 7th
Bb
G
E
C
C Minor 7th
Bb
G
Eb
C
Triads and 7ths in Three 7th Chords
Major Seventh Chord = Major Triad + Major 7th Interval
Dominant Seventh Chord = Major Triad + Minor 7th Interval
Minor Seventh Chord = Minor Triad + Minor 7th Interval
Three Stylistic Periods after the Baroque and Before Present - and Dates
Classical - 1750-1825
Romantic - 1825-1900
20th-Century - 1900-2000
Listening
[8951] Sting - Every Breath You Take
[8957] Mark Alburger - Camino Real: Block 9
[8957] Tan Dun - Ghost Opera
[8958] Prince - Darling Nikki
[8958] Erling Wold - Sub Pontio Pilato: Credo
[8968] Thom Yorke - Morning Bell
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Along
the
margin
of
sun and fog to the
Diablo Valley College Theoreticians re Elton John's Lion King,
Mark Alburger's Antigone: The Pride of Oedipus, and Kurt Cobain's Heart-Shaped Box variously for Dictation / Board Harmony,
plus more
imaginative
Student Composition 3's.
Nice lunch out,
though definitely under the weather,
swinging round for financial errands, then home for paper-grading --
somehow
making it
back for the
evening class, proceeding from Lionel Bart and Terry Riley through John Adams and David Bowie, listening and looking towards music of composers born between 1950-1970. Late, compose Twelve Virelais: X, on this 61st day of summmer, high zooming up 12 to 89 (new second highest of the year)...
