Halloween, 2016,
playing the Thomas of Celano Dies Irae and talking about the Black Death in relation to Guillaume de Machaut's Notre Dame Mass: I. Kyrie... so onward towards the Renaissance, as below...
A [Harmonic] Minor
A B C D E F G[#] A
Do Re Me Fa Sol Le Te Do
[Ti]
Chords in C Major
C Dm Em F G Am Bdim C
I ii iii IV V vi viio I
Three Periods of Music History after Ancient and Before Classical, with Dates
Medieval 400 - 1400
Renaissance 1400 - 1600
Baroque 1600 - 1750
Three Types of Triads and their Constituent Thirds and Fifths
Major Triad = M3 + P5
Minor Triad = m3 + P5
Diminished Triad = m3 + d5
Listening
[8400] Giles Binchois - Files a Marier (Don't Marry)
[8415] Conrad Paumann - Mt Ganczem Willen (With My Whole Heart)
[8450] Josquin des Pres - El Grillo (The Cricket)
[8510] Andrea Gabrielli - Ricercar (Research) in the 12th Mode
[8525] Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Pope Marcellus Mass: I. Kyrie
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It's also voting day (9th of fall, high 66... 67, Pleasant Hill... .32 additional rainfall, total of 3.49 since the rainfal year began July 1) for the rest of the household (selecting the only rational presidential candidate, of course),
in an interval that begins with composing page 10 and 6 respectively of
The Decameron: Sixth Day, Op. 257
Novel IV - Chichibio converts Currado Gianfigliazzi's wrath into laughter
Jonah, Op. 258
II. Belly Dance
finishing the latter,
and proceeding crossword-like
across
and
down
freeways
to
paper-grading at
Magoos,
and the evening session...