[Igor Stravinsky, not the least concerned about Exam, Part II, to be given sometime after 10:30am, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon, CA]
Write Any Scale (Other than a Major or Minor) and Identify
Write Four Chords (But Not on C) and Identify
Write the Instruments of a Large Orchestra, in Score Order
Listening
Igor Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUSfrgPQjRM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_of_Psalms
Timbre - Orchestra -[5 Flutes, 5 Oboes, 4 Bassoons, 4 Trumpets, 4 Horns, 3 Trombones, Tuba,
2 Harps, 2 Pianos, Percussion, Cellos, Basses]
Form - Through-Composed (Free Ternary ABA with Introduction)
Style - Neoclassic
Darius Milhaud - La Creation du Monde (The Creation of the World): Fugato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgqXq0es4wc (@ 5:00)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Milhaud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_cr%C3%A9ation_du_monde
Timbre - Chamber Orchestra [Flute, Oboe, 2 Clarinets, Alto Saxophone, Bassoon, 2 Trumpets, Horn, Trombone, Piano, 2 Percussion, 2 Violins, Cello, Bass]
Form - Fugato (Short Fugue)
Style - Neoclassic (Dixieland Jazz-Influenced Modernism)
Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story: Cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wugWGhItaQA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Story_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_(West_Side_Story_song)
Timbre - Theatre Orchestra
Form - Ternary (Verse-Chorus w/ 12-Tone Fugato Bridge)
Style - Neoclassic (Swing/Bebop Jazz Third-Stream Crossover)
John Williams - Star Wars: Main Title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21NDf_b3yJU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Star_Wars
Timbre - Film Orchestra
Form - Ternary (ABA)
Style - Neoromantic
Mark Alburger - Camino Real: Block 10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP8AZZYpjIY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_Real_(play)
(the Tennessee Williams source of the libretto)
Timbre - Voices / Synthetic Orchestra
Form - Large Rondo
Style - Post-Minimal
Michael Cooke - Music for Humans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1SSWqEOMwY
http://www.sfcco.org/mission.php
(performers in piece)
Timbre - Voices / Chamber Orchestra
Form - Through-Composed
Style - Post-Minimal
***
Definitely endgame of the semester -- as we begin review for the final in Music History, including Richard Wagner's Die Walkure: Act III - Ride of the Valkyries
and
Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7: II,
on
the
25th day of fall,
high back up to 55,
locally and in Danville / San Ramon
(ABA of 55-54-55 last 3 days...
Pleasant Hill, 57. --.19 rainfall, for total 4.04 since July 1) --
taking
a 4th walk on the DVCSR-to-Pleasant-Hill westside path,
now re Alameda Diablo from Second Canyon Creek Bridge to
Avenida Nueva Parking.
Take
a
brief
look
at
Diablo
Country
Club,
part of the
despoiling of the
Dan Cook Canyon property,
and
the
weather
sort of
holds up
on the way home,
to edit and compose --
at times over various media, particularly the
Washington Cathedral memorial cortege and service for George Bush (June 12, 1924 - November 30, 2018), including
Barack Obama and the Great Egotistical Lying Criminal Impeach-Now! in attendance -- page 76 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act III and 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 III - Mitridanes, holding Nathan in despite, journeys with intent to kill him
