[Edvard Munch's 1893 work is probably not the best way to approach Music Theory Quiz 9, given sometime after 8am, March 22, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA]
Secundal Harmony - in Seconds
(fairly rare -
Bela Bartok (1881-1945) - Concerto for Orchestra (1943): II. Game of Pairs,
trumpet duet, is a good example)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb37dJFPoFg (second movement begins @ 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)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secundal
Tertian Harmony - in Thirds
(common-practice harmony, c. 1650-1900 and beyond)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertian
Quartal and Quintal Harmony - in Fourths and Fifths
(Medieval / Early Renaissance / some 20th and 21st-Century Music -
Claude Debussy (1860-1916) Piano Preludes [1910]: Book 1, X. The Sunken Cathedral)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVMGwPDP-Yk (with score)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Debussy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Préludes_(Debussy)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_cathédrale_engloutie
http://imslp.org/wiki/Préludes%2C_Livre_1_(Debussy%2C_Claude)
VIII. The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (nice minor 7th chord and plagal cadences!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy65UdvuHYk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_fille_aux_cheveux_de_lin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartal_and_quintal_harmony
Syncopation
The accenting of relatively weak musical impulses (upbeats)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncopation
Keyboard / Solfege
Scott Joplin - The Entertainer (1902): Measure 4, with 16th-note pickups (R.H.)
(a great example of a syncopated melody)
Solfege: Re Ri Mi Do Mi Do Mi Do (italics 8va)
Fingering: R.H. 1 2 1 5 (etc.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aSve-KT0To
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Joplin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entertainer_(rag)
http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Entertainer_(Joplin%2C_Scott)
The close association of Ri-Mi (D#-E or Me-Mi Eb-E) is an early example of notated
Blue Notes - seemingy suggesting a "neutral third" microtone between said pitches...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_note
Other Examples of Syncopation
Debussy - The Children's Corner (1909) - Golliwog's Cakewalk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJqdP-1jUyA
http://imslp.org/wiki/Children%27s_Corner_(Debussy%2C_Claude)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) - The Rite of Spring (1913): Part I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFPjFjUonX8
(Dances of the Adolescents @3.27 is a famous syncopated bitonal section -
8:22, in Bb Dorian is also features syncopation)
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)
C / Db Whole-Tone, Gb / F# Major, Bb / Eb Minor Scales
Chord Sequence in C Major: IM7, I, I6, I64, V7, I (or I64) - Treble Staff only for latter
Whole-Tone Scales typically use accidentals, rather than key signatures
Black Notes may be spelled with Flats, Sharps, or combination of both
(to be sung in solfege however notated)
R.H. fingering for 7th chords - 5
3
2
1
fingering for 6 position - 5
2
1
fingering for 6/4 position - 5
3
1
Atonal (Pantonal) Music - Music evoking no (or all) tonality
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg
Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19 (1913)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGLcUfbVF3k
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sechs_kleine_Klavierstücke
http://imslp.org/wiki/6_Little_Piano_Pieces,_Op.19_(Schoenberg,_Arnold)
Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: I. Moon-Drunk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbTn7Y9XAhA
http://imslp.org/wiki/Pierrot_Lunaire,_Op.21_(Schoenberg,_Arnold)
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)
12-Tone Music - Music based on re-ordering the Chromatic Scale
In classic Schoenberg usage, the use of a Tone Row, i.e.
one selected ordering (Prime), a series of intervallic relationships, which can also be stated
backwards (Retrograde)
upside-down (Inversion)
backwards upside-down (Retrograde-Inversion)
The row (and operations) can be begin on any one of the 12 notes of the Chromatic Scale,
4 operations x 12 starting notes = 48 Permutations of a Row
Schoenberg - A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46 (1948)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z51uNyqdk5E
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Survivor_from_Warsaw
Other Music Relative to Week 9
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) - Symphony No. 4 (1934): 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 (1874-1954)
Symphony No. 4: I(1916)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12j1wdKE4zU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Ives)
104 Songs (1922): XLII. Serenity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9ZWKvxpD0w
http://imslp.org/wiki/114_Songs_(Ives,_Charles)
Stravinsky
The Firebird (1909)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHmk7yccvws
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Firebird
Petrushka (1911)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrushka_(ballet)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vGoToGx_7k
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Quiz 8 for the Theoreticians, with musical examples drawn from the works of Frederic Chopin, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Georges Bizet, Erik Satie, and Charles Ives.
60th
day
of
spring,
high
down
4
to
55, .47 additional precip (10.8 since July 1).
Page 54 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45,
and composition re
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
VI. Heu, quo progreditur prevaricacio! (Oh, how the progress of prevarication!
… monophonic conductus [in 14-voice canon])
