Listening
The music and the composer. (Also consider dates) https://youtu.be/pnJM_jC7j_4
What is "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane (1967)?
A Middle Ages performance practice that is often performed as an introduction to mass movements and sits below the title in the score.
What is Gregorian Chant/Chant?
Between 1769 and 1833, twenty-one of these were created to bring Catholicism to California, then called “New Spain.”
What are the Missions?
This band’s colorful posters whose design alludes to psychedelic drugs sold the “San Francisco Scene” and are now collectible items.
Who is Jefferson Airplane?
It is a way to set text over multiple musical notes.
What is melismatic?
The music and the composer. (Also consider dates) https://youtu.be/vugqRAX7xQE?t=108
What is 'It's Gonna Rain' by Steve Reich (1965)?
A baroque notation convention that has been notated here.
What is figured bass?
Born and raised in SF, this composer is known for his use of the sliding tone.
Who is Henry Cowell?
Born within the two decades after World War II, this generation is associated with the counterculture movement.
What are baby boomers?
Invented in the Middle Ages by a famous musician from Arezzo, Italy, this study tool aimed to teach solmization to illiterate monks.
What is the Guidonian Hand?
The music and the composer. (Also consider dates) https://youtu.be/4ls9Jk937P8?t=3
What is Keyboard Concerto in D Minor by J. S. Bach, performed by Jordi Savall (1734).
The musical texture present between the two soprano voices.
What is homophony?
Born outside of the US, this composer’s compositional techniques migrated into Hollywood film scores via Europeans fleeing to the US during WW2.
Who was Richard Wagner?
Opened by producer Bill Graham, these concert venues in NYC and SF have been staging rock concerts since 1965.
What are the Filmore East/West?
This term is often used for the main musician in a jazz band.
What is a frontman?
The music and the composer. (Also consider dates) https://youtu.be/amU2M8FUf6E?t=55
What is "Time Perspectives" by Pauline Oliveros?
The technique present in this image was likely inspired by this musical practice.
What is Chinese Opera?
The location of the original and modest facilities of the San Francisco Tape Music Center.
What was SFCM on Ortega Street?
This organist famously declared that “my Bach is alive, the purist’s Bach is dead.”
Who was Virgil Fox?
This movement, whose acronym is synonymous with “trendy,” aims to recreate stylistic characteristics and practices of difference periods using period instruments.
What is Historically Informed Performance (HIP)?
The music and the composer. (Also consider dates) https://youtu.be/7DqEmsNfU_g?t=61
What is "Mass to St. Anthony" by Lou Harrison (1939)?
It is the prevalent harmony implied by the figured bass symbols above this bass line?
What is g minor?
Famous for its tower sculptures, the city within greater LA is where both Charles Mingus and Sylvester were raised.
What is Watts?
This musicologist developed a framework for understanding ‘instances of musical multimedia’ in which music interacts with another media (e.g. a light show).
Who is Nicholas Cook?
This term encapsulates the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei – the five movements of the Catholic Mass that stayed fixed regardless of occasion.
What is the Ordinary?