[Leonard Bernstein, wondering if traditional voice-leading is really necessary in Quiz 12: Voice-Leading (it is...), to be given sometime after 8am, Thursday, April 19, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA]
Choral-Style Voicing
S (all stems up)
Treble Clef will contain
A (all stems down)
T (all stems up)
Bass Clef will contain
B (all stems down)
Open-Spacing Realizaton of Root-Position Chords
Over a given Bass-Clef Root,
choose a Soprano Chord-Tone,
Alto and Tenor will be every-other Chord Tone downward
(skip a chord-tone, use, skip a chord-tone, use)
Keyboard-Solfege
Andrew Lloyd-Webber (b. 1948) - Jesus Christ Superstar (1970): Hosanna
G: D E D C D C B A G... Bb
Sol La Sol Fa Sol Fa Mi Re Do... Me
R.H. 4 5 4 3 5 4 3 2 1... 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsKLXFlhk7s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lloyd_Webber
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Superstar_(album)
12-Bar Blues (Realization and Performance in Ab)
- no chord above measure indicates continuation of harmony from previous measure)
Chords in Ab: Ab
Chord #s: I
Measures: 1 2 3 4
(usually 4/4)
Db Ab
IV I
5 6 7 8
Eb Db Ab
V IV I
9 10 11 12
N.B. first measure of each 4-measure group outlines I-IV-V
V to IV is measures 9-10 is very characteristic of blues, and very unusual in traditional harmony
Plagal cadences are important in blues,
Measures 9 to 11 seem to be an authentic cadence interrupted by a plagal one!
(Variants
in slow blues, sometimes first four bars will be
I IV I
1 2 3 4
in fast blues, sometimes last four bars will be
V I
9 10 11 12
in mid-tempo blues, directly above has occasionally been alteredto
ii (II?) V I
9 10 11
in repeated 12-bar "choruses" measure 12 is often a "turnaround"
V back to I
12 1
First 4 bars can be expanded to 8
Ex. Willie Dixon (1915-1992) - Hoochie Coochie Man (1954)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFxrLOVwsEE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Dixon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoochie_Coochie_Man )
Other Music Referenced in Quiz 12
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) - Chichester Psalms: II. Psalm 23 / 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3WQkhptmVA (@ 5:00)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Bernstein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichester_Psalms
Paul McCartney (b. 1942) - Yesterday (1965)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday_(Beatles_song)
Roger Waters - Dark Side of the Moon (1973): Brain Damage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77n1mDf6Iqo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Waters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Damage_(song)
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Yes, indeed, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar Hosanna,
plus Quiz 11 (with musical examples from works of Duke Ellington, Olivier Messiaen, Bela Bartok, John Cage, Jester Hairston, and Richard Rodgers) for the Diablo Valley College Theoreticians. System 79 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45, and page 11 score-studied for Igor Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, as part of The Opus Project presents Opus 64 (8pm, Saturday, April 28, 2018, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive)...
77th
day
of
spring,
high
again
63,
locally and in Pleasant Hill,
returning
up
680
to find Fairfield at 61 and
Ash over to help Harriet re academics at Solano Community...
