[Michael Cooke, wondering if his sax will be featured on Quiz 14 (21st-Century Music), sometime after 11:10am, Wednesday, December 5, 2018, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon, CA]
Write Four Bars of Music (make it interesting and/or beautiful and/or fun and/or dangerous)
Write a Short Essay on a Favorite Piece of Music (composer/performer and name of piece)
What makes it great? Use our typical vocabulary (paragraph of five or more sentences)
Listening
Michael Cooke - Ha-Me'aggel (One Who Draws Circles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVWPSoev0jU
http://www.michaelkcooke.com/bio.html
Thomas Ades - Totentanz (Death Dance)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G8ySgSayK8
(@4:15 - interview w/ composer re work, previous to this...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Adès
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totentanz_(Adès)
Mason Bates - The B-Sides: V. Warehouse Medicine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZ1HhvZPlg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Bates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_B-Sides_(composition)
Steven Price - Gravity: Debris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFJdAAXaMRU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Price_(composer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity:_Original_Motion_Picture_Soundtrack
Mehdi Hosseini - The Baluch: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7IvipUYrm8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Hosseini
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baluch
Lady Gaga - Poker Face
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bESGLojNYSo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker_Face_(Lady_Gaga_song)
***
With the Music Historians for
Quiz 13
(20th-Century V),
after
a
dramatic
cloudscape
commute
and
before
a
3rd
walk
on the San-Ramon-to-Pleasant-Hill-West route,
still on Alameda Diablo, now from Fossil Ridge View Parking to
Caballo Rancho Approach.
Beyond,
take another exploration up Dan Cook Canyon
to the
Summit Trailhead,
then
return,
on the 18th day of fall,
high up 9 back to 66
(ABA of 66-57-66 past 3 days)...
Martinez, 67
Pleasant Hill, 68
Danville, 63
San Ramon, 62
... again
.12 inches of rain
(2.88 since July 1).
Later, edit page 69 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act III, and compose system 2
The Decameron, Op. 289 (2018)
100 Novels for Voices and Instruments, after the work (1353) of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
Tenth Day - Novel II - Ghino di Tacco captures the Abbot of Cluny
