September 30 - Call for Participation

Prepare playlist for The Opus Project presents Opus 70 (8pm, Saturday, October 27, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA), as below...
 
Muhammad (570-632)           
Call to Prayer (622) - Voices / Instruments
Alburger Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oolV-slw_AM

Cenewulf (940-1010)           
Veni Veni Emmanuel (O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, 970) - Voices / Instruments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Come,_O_Come,_Emmanuel

Free Organum Composer (b. c. 970)   
Cunctipotens Genitor (All-Powerful Creator, c. 1000) - Voices / Instruments
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/composers-of-free-organum-b-c-970.html

French Composer (b. c. 1170)       
Ductia (c. 1200) - Instruments
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/french-b-c-1170-danse-real-royale.html
                       
Italian Composer (b. c. 1270)       
Trotto (c. 1300) - Instruments
https://markalburger2018.blogspot.com/2018/05/may-7-towel-on.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aegyz0H31Uo (@ 36:10)

Jacopo da Bologna (1320-1370)
Non al suo amante (No One Ever Pleased a Lover so Much, c. 1350) - Voices / Instruments
Alburger Library
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8320/01/jacopo-da-bologna-c-1320-1370.html

Irish Composer (b. c. 1540)       
Variations on the Romanesca (b. 1570) - Orchestra
Alburger Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbVTOePdOSc

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Trio No. 5 in D Major ("Ghost"), Op. 70, No. 1: II. Largo assai ed espressivo - Orchestra
https://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Trio_in_D_major,_Op.70_No.1_(Beethoven,_Ludwig_van)
New orchestration to emphasize the work's second-movement nickname
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akziMCkuf28

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)   
Elijah, Op. 70 (1846): XX. Hear Ye, Israel / XXIX. He Watching Over Israel - Voices / Orchestra
https://imslp.org/wiki/Elijah,_Op.70_(Mendelssohn,_Felix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fH_OrNKJg8

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)       
Die Walkure (1870): Act III - Ride of the Valkyries - Voices / Orchestra
https://imslp.org/wiki/Die_Walk%C3%BCre,_WWV_86B_(Wagner,_Richard)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOk_lqPlXQE

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Symphony No.7  in D Minor, Op. 70 (1885): III. Scherzo - Vivace
https://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.7,_Op.70_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k,_Anton%C3%ADn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3thKh93NEEU

Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956)           
The Red Poppy, Op. 70: Act I: XVIII. Russian Sailor's Dance - Orchestra
https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Red_Poppy%2C_Op.70_(Gli%C3%A8re%2C_Reinhold)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY_zVGHWq5o

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)           
The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame), Op. 70 (1936): Idee Fixe - Orchestra
UC Berkeley Music Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJyYmTPWJ5U

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)       
Symphony No. 9 in E-Flat Major, Op. 70 (1945): I. Allegro
UC Berkeley Music Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfakIg9E_ao

Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)       
And God Created Great Whales (1970) - Orchestra
Alburger Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LVm5nd-KFA

George Crumb (b. 1929)           
Ancient Voices of Children (1970): IV. Todas las tardes / Ghost Dance - Voice / Instruments
Alburger Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIPhA2MFXUI (@ 4:20)

Lionel Bart (1930-1999)           
Oliver! (1960): XV. I'm Reviewing the Situation (What Happens When I'm 70?)
Voice / Orchestra
Alburger Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef9Ea9NFyyM

Billy Roberts (b. 1936)           
Hey, Joe (arr. Jimi Hendrix, 1942-1970, Are You Experienced?, 1967) - Voice / Instruments
Alburger Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4vGqwMPSUc

Philip Glass (b. 1937)           
Music with Changing Parts (1970) - Orchestra
Alburger Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdNPGjkqL2Q (Recent PGE live excerpt!)

Peter Bergman (1939-1012)       
Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers (1970): This Side
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLZOXm3zY1w

Andrew Lloyd Webber (b. 1947)       
Jesus Christ Superstar (1970): Act I: VIII. Hosanna - Voices / Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsKLXFlhk7s

Mark Alburger (b. 1957)               
Solomon, Op. 70 (1998)
Alburger Library

James MacMillan (b. 1957)               
Veni, Veni, Emmanuel (1992)
UC Berkeley Music Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5M9nfC6apM

Michael Cooke (b. 1970)
Music for Humans (2013)
Alburger Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1SSWqEOMwY

***

Also errands about town

and

the editing of page 13 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act III,

on the 187th day of summer, high back up 6 to 81 (128 days this year at 80 or above)...

September 29 - The Opus Project presents Opus 69

THE OPUS PROJECT
presents

OPUS '69: Moondance
8pm, Saturday, September 29, 2018
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)      
     Dido and Aeneas (1689)
          Dido's Lament: When I Am Laid in Earth

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)      
     Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (1830)
          IV. March to the Scaffold

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)      
     21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (1869, orch. 1876, Albert Parlow, 1824-1888)
          V. Allegro

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)          
     Four Norwegian Dances, Op. 35 (1869, orch. Hans Sitt, 1855-1922)
          II. Allegretto tranquillo e grazioso

John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)      
     Liberty Bell (1893, re-popularized by Monty Python's Flying Circus, 1969)
          March Tempo

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
     Tosca, SC 69 (1899)
          Act II: Vissi d'arte (Andante lento appassionato)

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)      
     Billy the Kid (1938)
          Goodby Old Paint (1869 Cowboy song)

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)      
     Children's Notebook, Op. 69 (1945)
           I. March
           IV. Happy Fairy Tale

John Cage (1912-1992)          
     Dream (1948)

Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)      
     Symphony No. 6, Op. 69 (1956)

          Megan Cullen, Soprano and Piano
          The Opus Project Ensemble 

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)      
     Tangazo (1969)

          Mark Alburger, Piano

Luciano Berio (1925-2003)      
     Sinfonia (1969)
          III. In ruhig fliessender Bewegung

          The Opus Project Ensemble

George Crumb (b. 1929)      
     Madrigals, Book III (1969)
         I. La noche canta desnuda sobre los puentes de marzo
         (Night sings naked above the bridges of March)

     Night of the Four Moons (1969)
          I. La luna esta muerta (The moon is dead)

          Mark Alburger, Tenor and Instruments

Philip Glass (b. 1937)          
     [Music in] Contrary Motion (1969)
          Fast, Steady

          The Opus Project Ensemble

     Passages (1990, with Ravi Shankar, 1920-2012)
          VI. Prashanti

          Audio

Peter Bergman (1939-2012)
     How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All? (1969)
          I. The Ralph Spoilsport Mantra

          The Opus Project Ensemble and Audience

John Cleese (b. 1939)          
     Dead Parrot Sketch (1969)
          Collage of Monty Python performances from
          Television Episode 14 (1969), Album 1 (1970), plus
          And Now for Something Completely Different (1971)

          Video

Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)          
     The Star-Spangled Banner (1969,
          after John Stafford Smith, 1750-1836,
          To Anacreon in Heaven, 1780)

Pete Townsend (b. 1945)          
     Tommy (1969)
           Overture

Robert Fripp (b. 1946)          
     In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
          IV. Moonchild

David Bowie (1947-2016)          
     Space Oddity (1969)
          Moderately Slow

Mark Alburger (b. 1957)          
     King David, Op. 69 (1998)
          XII. Incantation (The Witch of Endor)

          The Opus Project Ensemble

Kat Walsh (b. 1980)
     Three Dances for Wind Quartet (2018)
          Dance II

          The Opus Project Wind Quartet

THE OPUS PROJECT ENSEMBLE

Mark Alburger                          Music Director and Conductor

Flute / Piccolo
Yein Ra


Clarinet
Peter Brown

Bassoon
Michael Garvey

Trumpet
Richard Benitez

Horn
David Simpson

Trombone
Larry Grabow

Soprano
Megan Cullen

Alto
Harriet March Page

Tenor
Mark Alburger

Bass
Ali Sanie

Piano
Mark Alburger
Megan Cullen

Percussion
Mark Alburger

Violin
Ali Sanie

Viola
Kat Walsh


***

THE OPUS PROJECT presents

What Happens When We're OPUS 70?  Must Come a Time, OPUS 70!
8pm, Saturday, October 27, 2018
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

With The Opus Project Orchestra

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)            Elijah, Op. 70 (1846): He Watching Over Israel
Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931)            Symphony No. 3 ("Sinfonia brevis de bello gallico"), Op. 70
Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956)            The Red Poppy, Op. 70: Russian Sailor's Dance
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)            The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame), Op. 70 (1936)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)            Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel, Op. 70 (1921)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)            Danzon Cubano (1944)
Hermann Reutter (1900-1985)            Lyric Concerto, Op. 70 (1948)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)        Symphony No. 9 in E-Flat Major, Op. 70 (1945)
Lionel Bart (1930-1999)            Oliver! (1960): I'm Reviewing the Situation
Krzysztof Meyer (b. 1943)                Musica Incrostata (Incrusted Music), Op. 70 (1988)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)                Solomon, Op. 70 (1998)

***

A well-nigh miraculous show!

Excellence on the

186th

day

of

summer,

high

droppping

9

to

75 (falling 22 in the last 2 days -- Fairfield and Pleasant Hill both 76), with the editing of page 11 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act III, upon return....

September 28 - The Calm

Print out music for The Opus Project presents Opus 69 (8pm, Saturday, September 29, Diablo Valley College Music, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA) and edit page 10 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act III, on the 185th day of summer, high plummeting down 13 to 83...

September 27 - Song of the... Well, Never Mind...

[Seeing the light, understanding Theory thoroughly, ready to take Quiz 6, sometime after 7:55am, Thursday, October 4, at Diablo Valley College Music, Pleasant Hill, CA]


Grand Staves 

Instrumental-Vocal (Bracket and Barline)

Keyboard (Brace and Barline)

(N.B. Barline above is extending upward to an unseen instrumental grand staff)

Choral music is sometimes noted with keyboard-style grand staff - e.g. 2-staff chorales / hymns

While typical Clef Placement is Treble above and Bass below,
it is possible to have two Treble Clefs, or two Bass Clefs



Voices - Approximate Ranges

Soprano (S)
Alto (A)
Tenor (T)
Bass (B)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_type

Four-Part Voicings of Closed-Spacing Root-Position Chords (Triads), 
Bass and Treble Clefs, Doubled Roots

Keyboard Style

                      S       5th                  Root              3rd
Treble Clef    A      3rd        or       5th       or     Root
                      T      Root                3rd                5th

Bass Clef       B     Root                Root             Root

Vocal Style

                      S          5                  R                3
Treble Clef    A         3                  5                 R
                                            or                or
                      T          R                 3                 5
Bass Clef      B          R                 R                 R

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_(music)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony 


More Root-Postion Figured-Bass Symbols

5 - alter the 5th above the bass in indicated fashion

Natural Sign - Cancels any Flat or Sharp in Key Signature for designated distance above bass

b - Flat the indicated distance above the bass

(N.B. in Baroque Figured Bass, isolated accidentals imply alterations to the 3rd above the bass)


A, E Major; E / C Minor

Typical pentascale fingering

R.H. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5

L.H. 5 4 3 2 1 3 2 1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_major

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_major

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_minor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_minor


Keyboard-Solfege

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) - The Four Seasons (1723): I. Spring: I. Allegro

Solfege in E: Mi Mi Mi Re Do Sol Sol Fa (repeat)

E-Major Pentascale:

R.H. 3 3 3 2 1 5 5 4

L.H. 3 3 3 4 5 1 1 2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Seasons_(Vivaldi)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKthRw4KjEg



Music Referenced in Week 6


Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613) - Moro, Lasso (Alas, I Die, 1610)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dVPu71D8VI
(Recording and Score)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Gesualdo

https://www.allmusic.com/composition/moro-lasso-al-mio-duolo-madrigal-for-5-voices-book-6-w-6-74-mc0002361403


Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) - L'Orfeo (Orpheus, 1607): Tu se Morta (You Are Dead)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGm5TNbA1r4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Monteverdi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Orfeo

http://imslp.org/wiki/L%27Orfeo,_SV_318_(Monteverdi,_Claudio)


Heinrich Schutz (1585-1676) - Saul, Saul (1650)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/heinrich-schutz-1585-1672-saul.html
(N.B. Best heard/viewed on Firefox)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Schütz

https://www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/43mym9/heinrich_schutz_saul_saul_was_verfolgst_du_mich/

http://imslp.org/wiki/Saul%2C_Saul%2C_was_verfolgst_du_mich%3F%2C_SWV_415_(Schütz%2C_Heinrich)


Arcangelo Corelli (1683-1713) - Church Trio Sonata in E Major, Op. 3, No. 7: I. Grave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx9ZpOMdWZs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcangelo_Corelli

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trio_sonata

http://imslp.org/wiki/12_Trio_Sonatas%2C_Op.3_(Corelli%2C_Arcangelo)


Henry Purcell (1659-1695) - Dido and Aeneus (1688): Thy Hand, Belinda / When I Am Laid in Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGQq3HcOB0Y
(Vocal / Bass Line Score)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Purcell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dido_and_Aeneas

http://imslp.org/wiki/Dido_and_Aeneas,_Z.626_(Purcell,_Henry)


Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) - Gloria: I. Gloria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Vivaldi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQx2TWgxX14
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_(Vivaldi)

http://imslp.org/wiki/Gloria_in_D_major,_RV_589_(Vivaldi,_Antonio)


Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach

- Organ Toccata in D Minor (1707)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU1p7iBSlw8
(Score)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toccata_and_Fugue_in_D_minor,_BWV_565

- Organ Fugue in G Minor ("Little") (1709)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Kq60w-AXk
(Score) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue_in_G_minor,_BWV_578

- Organ Passacaglia in C Minor (1713)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STij8KmsgcI
(Score Manuscript!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passacaglia_and_Fugue_in_C_minor,_BWV_582

-The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (1722): I. Prelude No. 1 in C Major

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otbpdAS2kbw
(John Kirkpatrick, Clavichord, with Score!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlXDJhLeShg
(Entire Book I, Harpsichord, with Score!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well-Tempered_Clavier


George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) - Messiah: Hallelujah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4LDVrnAQeo
(Keyboard-Vocal Score)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iXmIjpGsGc&p=FA3F0EFACB26D72D&playnext=1&index=2
(Live Early-Music performance)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_(Handel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_Part_II

http://imslp.org/wiki/Messiah,_HWV_56_(Handel,_George_Frideric)
(Full Score - 44. Hallelujah, at bottom of listings)

***

It's the beginnings of Baroque Harmony for the Theoreticians, with Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo: Tu se Morta as Dictation / Board Harmony,

plus more great Student Compositions and

Quiz 6

(the musical examples drawn from works of Josquin des Pres, Costanzo Festa, Henry VIII, Louis Bourgeois, and more Monteverdi) --

on

the

184th

day

of

summer,

high

down

2

to

97

(Fairfield, 95 / Pleasant

Hill,

87) --

eventually

touching

base

afterwards

with

Harriet at

Solano College,

then proceeding

to

paper-grading at Gordito's,

followed by

homeward to edit page 9 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act III...