October 31 - That's Really Scary!


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...