[Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev in dread of Joseph Stalin, but not of Quiz 10 -- 20th-Century Music II, to be given sometime after 11am, Wednesday, April 4, 2018, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon, CA]
C (Lydian) Blues Scale / Four C Chords
Chord Pattern in a Typical 12-Bar Blues
Chord I
Measure 1 2 3 4
IV I
5 6 7 8
V IV I
9 10 11 12
Listening
Sergei Prokofiev - Symphony No. 3: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4XLySHvFL4&list=RDf4XLySHvFL4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Prokofiev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._3_(Prokofiev)
George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2_yRwPPIEc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gershwin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhapsody_in_Blue
http://imslp.org/wiki/Rhapsody_in_Blue_(Gershwin,_George)
Francis Poulenc - Double Piano Concerto: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V87wGyfUQiQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Poulenc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerto_for_Two_Pianos_and_Orchestra_(Poulenc)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Concerto_for_2_Pianos,_FP_61_(Poulenc,_Francis)
Aaron Copland - Piano Concerto: II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPsamNC0GVQ (@ 6:29)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Copland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_(Copland)
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGXVXEYiZNM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._5_(Shostakovich)
Olivier Messiaen - Turangalila Symphonie: IV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Qh9Tttngk (@18:45)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Messiaen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turangal%C3%AEla-Symphonie
***
Oh,
the tangled web,
south
to
DVC
San
Ramon,
for works of Igor Stravinsky, Edgar Varese, Anton Webern, and Alban Berg -- with the Music Historians, followed by Quiz 9 (21st-Century Music I), with selections additionally by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Charles Ives, Arnold Schoenberg, and Bela Bartok.
Edit page 60 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45,
and
eventually
proceed
circuituously
to
San
Francisco
Composers
Chamber Orchestra Board meeting, confirming instrumentation and repertory for The Fast and the Furies, 8:00pm, Saturday, May 5, 2018, St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 1111 O'Farrell Street, SF, CA. Confirm that program will include...
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...
So, do parts for
I. Favellandi vicium et fex avarcie obtinet nunc solium summumque locum curie
(Horse-Ass's fits and sex-greed now occupy the seat of the Supreme Court
… 2-voice expanding isorhythmic motet),
... on the 66th day of spring, high 66, locally and in San Ramon (.84 additional precip, 12.68 since July 1, now finally at half average for the rainfall year) --
Pleasant Hill, 70
Pinole, 60
San Francisco, 64...
