[Camille Saint-Saens in a funk (diabolic mood!) before Quiz 8 (Romantic Music II), sometime after 11am, Wednesday, March 14, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon Campus]
C Chromatic Scale (Up in Sharps - C, C#, etc / Down in Flats C, B, Bb)
[N.B. we say "C-Sharp" but write the Sharp in front of note in notation - same situation w/ Flats...
No E# B# on way up, no Cb or Fb on way down
--these are cases of two white notes w/o intervening black]
Instruments in a Large Orchestra
Woodwinds
[4] Flutes
[4] Oboes
[4] Clarinets
[4] Bassoons
Brass
[4] Trumpets
[8] Horns
[3] Trombones
[1] Tuba
Percussion
Harp
Piano
Mallets
Battery
Timpani
Strings
[17] Violin I
[15] Violin II
[13] Viola
[11] Cello
[9] Bass
Listening
Camille Saint-Saens - Symphony No. 3 ("Organ"): IIb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idL1kQex-ss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Saint-Saëns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._3_(Saint-Saëns)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.3,_Op.78_(Saint-Saëns,_Camille)
Peter Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 ("Pathetique"): II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDqCIcsUtPI (20:59-28:25)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._6_(Tchaikovsky)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.6,_Op.74_(Tchaikovsky,_Pyotr)
Giacomo Puccini - La Boheme: Act II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q0z66wkN2c (35:38-54:00)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Puccini
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_bohème
http://imslp.org/wiki/La_Bohème_(Puccini,_Giacomo)
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1: III
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEPERXpOqiU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._1_(Mahler)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.1_(Mahler%2C_Gustav)
Claude Debussy - Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43rzoDrD4e0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Debussy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A9lude_%C3%A0_l%27apr%C3%A8s-midi_d%27un_faune
http://imslp.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A9lude_%C3%A0_l%27apr%C3%A8s-midi_d%27un_faune_(Debussy%2C_Claude)
Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 2: II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sSFVvF7-W0 (10:42-25:14)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Sibelius
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._2_(Sibelius)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.2%2C_Op.43_(Sibelius%2C_Jean)
***
Listening and
writing with the San Ramon group,
the
morning
overcast
gives
way
to
a
beautiful
day
for
another walk on the course from the College to Mt. Diablo,
now along Alamo Creek West Branch from Rassani
to
Conejo,
rectangularing
back
via
Tassajara,
on
the
54th
day
of
summer,
high
69
(Pleasant Hill and San Ramon, 71; Pinole, 64),
with
page
46
new-edition
Mice and Men,
Op. 45,
edited...
