MARK ALBURGER, 2018: April 26 - All Listened Over

[Those Philip Glass Satyagraha ghouls would make formidable paper-graders for Quiz 14 (Analysis), given sometime after 8am, Thursday, May 3, Diablo Valley College Music, Pleasant Hill, CA]

More Added (Non-Chord / Non-Harmonic / Embellishing) Tones

Anticipation - A Dissonant Melodic Note which will be a Consonant Tone in the following Chord

Wild Tone - A Dissonant Melodic Note that cannot be explained by any traditional usage

Suspended Chords

Sus 4 = "Root 4th 5th" (the fourth often resolves downward to the 3rd)
(use of capital or small Roman numeral determined by what the 3rd would be, given the key)

Major Ninth Chord

Major 7th Chord + M9 (interval, measured from Root)

Keyboard-Solfege / Chord Performance

Sting (b. 1951) - King of Pain (1983): Chorus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFN5DveQH0o

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_(musician)

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

[N.B. Upper 2 Staves above in Treble Clef; Lower in Bass
The cancelled Key Sig simply erases D Major of the preceeding example]

5 Seventh Chords in 3 Keys

Major 7th (M7)                          MT + M7 interval
Dominant 7th (7)                       MT + m7 interval
Minor 7th (m7)                          mT + m7
Half-Diminished 7th (ho7)        dT + m7
Diminished 7th (o7)                   dT + d7

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

Other Music Referenced in Quiz 14

Philip Glass

     Satyagraha (1980): Act I, Scene 1 "On the Kuru Field of Justice"

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU1hyzl8UJ4

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyagraha_(opera)

     Akhnaten (1983): Act I, Scene 2 "Akhnaten and Nefertiti"

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7swQfN3RAo (@ 2:37)

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhnaten_(opera)

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SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director

Fast and The Furies
Rehearsal 1, 7pm, Thursday, April 26, 2018
St Teresa of Avila Catholic Church, 1490 19th Street, San Francisco, CA
Mark Alburger, John Kendall Bailey, and Michael Cooke, conducting

Program

7:00    Philip Freihofner
                Oboe and Bassoon Duet (5')
                0101 0000 00000

7:17    John Beeman
                Introduction and Dance (6')
                1100 0000 10110 (5)

7:34    Michael Kimbell
                Chaconne on a Theme from Henry Purcell's "When I Am Laid in Earth" (5')
                1111 1000 11111 (10)

7:51    Anton Webern
                Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10 (5')
                1121 1100 Pf 3Perc 12111 (17)
                I. Sehr ruhig und zart
                II. Lebhaft und zart bewegt
                III. Sehr langsam und ausserst ruhig
                IV. Fliessend, aussert zart
                V. Sehr fliessend

8:08    Mark Alburger
                ROMAN DE FAVVEL (The Horse-Ass Novel), Op. 276 (11')
                after Gervais de Bus's Roman de Fauvel, 1314, Book I, Folio 1-2
                2122 1100 Pf 3Perc 11111 (18)
                I. Favellandi vicium et fex avarcie (Horse-Ass's fits and sex-greed)
                II. Mundus a mundicia (This lying world)
                III. Quare fremuerunt (Why do the nations rage)
                IV. Super cathedram, sub ypocrisi (This modern world, a flock of hypocrisy)
                V. Scariottis geiniture viperera (The scar of reproduction)
                VI. Heu, quo progreditur prevaricacio! (Oh, how the progress of prevarication!)
                VII. In mari miserie (In the sea of misery)
                VIII. Ad solitum vomitum (The usual vomit)

8:40    Break

8:56    Michael Cooke
                Open-Ended (10')
                2122 1100 Pf 3Perc 11111 (18)

9:28    Davide Verotta
                Sinfonietta (10')
                2112 1100 Pf 2Perc 11111 (16)

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Amazing first rehearsal of SFCCO's Fast and the Furies program (8pm, Saturday, May 5, 2018, St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 1111 O'Farrell, San Francisco), preceeded by another fantastic session with the Music Theoreticians -- including Board Harmony on passages from Philip Glass's Satyagraha (1980) and Akhnaten (1983),

Quiz 13 (featuring selections re Glass's Einstein on the Beach, Roger Waters's Shine on You Crazy Diamond (both from 1975), and John Williams's Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and