March 14 - Going Ape


[Ralph Vaughan Williams's great-uncle Charles Darwin (in parody above), keen on the music of Quiz 9 (20th-Century I), sometime after 11am, March 21, 2018, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon]


C Whole-Tone Scale



(Please write your own) 12-Tone Row

Any re-ordering of a Chromatic Scale


Two New-Music Ensembles

Pierrot [after Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire (The Moonstruck, or Mad Puppet)]

Flute
Clarinet
Piano
Violin
Cello

Histoire [after Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat (The Story of a Soldier)]

Clarinet
Bassoon
Trumpet
Trombone
Percussion
Violin
Bass


Igor Stravinsky's Birth-Death Dates, Three Stylistic Periods - Types of Music Written

1882-1971

Modernist (Post-Impressionist, Primitive, Russian) - Ballets
Neoclassic - Ballets, Concertos, Operas, Symphonies
Serial - Ballets, Memorial Pieces


Listening

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 4: I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMG70e0Usn0

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Vaughan_Williams)


Charles Ives - Symphony No. 4: I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12j1wdKE4zU

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Ives)


Bela Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra: II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb37dJFPoFg (@ 10:05)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerto_for_Orchestra_(Bartók)

http://imslp.org/wiki/Concerto_for_Orchestra%2C_Sz.116_(Bartók%2C_Béla)


Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring: Part I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFPjFjUonX8

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

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

http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring_(Stravinsky,_Igor)


Anton Webern - Five Pieces for Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reqqQ-kBJQ0

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

https://www.allmusic.com/composition/pieces-5-for-orchestra-op-10-mc0002362388

http://imslp.org/wiki/5_Pieces_for_Orchestra,_Op.10_(Webern,_Anton)


Alban Berg - Wozzeck: Act I, Scene 3 - March and Lullaby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdinmlIdnYw (@16:15)

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

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

http://imslp.org/wiki/Wozzeck%2C_Op.7_(Berg%2C_Alban)


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Quiz 8 for the Music Historians, selections by Camille Saint-Saens, Peter Tchaikovsky, Giacomo Puccini, Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy, and Jean Sibelius --


another


scenic


transit


on


80


and


680


to


the locale, editing page 53 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45,


yet again

walking along a route from San Ramon to Mt. Diablo, 



now moistly along Center,


bounded by Tassajara Ranch and Crossing. 


59th


day


of


spring,


with that the


high temperature


as well


(.2 additional precip for 10.33 since July 1)

Fairfield, 58
Pleasant Hill, 60
San Ramon, 57

Also compose



ROMAN DE FAVVEL
(The Horse-Ass Novel -
Flattery, Avarice, Vileness, Variability, Envy, Laxity)
, Op. 276

after Gervais de Bus's Roman de Fauvel (Faus Vel - Falseness), 1314

Book I, Folio 1-2

V. Scariottis geiniture viperera / Jure quod in opere / Superne matris gaudia
(The scar of reproduction / Right in the act / The holy mother's joy
… 3-voice assassination commemoration motet)