MARK ALBURGER, 2018: April 4

[John Cage, looking forward to his music being featured on Quiz 11 (20th-Century Music III), sometime after 11am, Wednesday, April 11, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon]

Write your own 4-Note Passage (Prime), followed by its Retrograde (Backwards),
Inversion (Upside-Down), and Retrograd-Inversion (Backwards Upside-Down)

Example:

Prime: DEAG
Retrograde: GADE (the above backwards)
Inversion: DCGA (start with first note of Prime,
                                    inverting intervals... D to E is a 2nd up, in Prime
                                                               so, D to C is a 2nd down, in Inversion, etc.
Retrograde-Inversion: AGCD (backwards of the Inversion)

Instrumentation of Three Styles of Jazz (Oldest to Most Recent - c. 1920 - 1950)

             Dixieland                             Swing                          Bebop
             (New-Orleans Style)            (Big Band)                  (Bop)

[Horns] [1-2] Clarinet(s)                  [4-5] Saxophones        Saxophone
              [1-2] Trumpet(s)                  [4-5] Trumpets           Trumpet
               Trombone                           [4-5] Trombones         Trombone

Rhythm Banjo                                  Guitar                          Guitar
               Piano                                   Piano                          Piano
               Bass [Tuba]                         Bass                            Bass
               Drums                                  Drums                        Drums

Listening

Samuel Barber - Second Essay for Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34NThn0cZE8

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Essay_for_Orchestra_(Barber)

Alan Hovhaness - Symphony No. 2 ("Myserious Mountain"): II. Double Fugue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUApae3pPXs

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._2_(Hovhaness)

John Cage - Sonatas and Interludes: V

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiKrwg9GxuY

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

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

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

Pierre Boulez (1926-2017) - Le Marteau sans Maitre (The Masterless Hammer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShcb8ogLYo

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

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

George Crumb (b. 1929) - Black Angels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44u71qJFh00

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Angels_(Crumb)

***

Ah,

we're getting mighty modern

on the 23rd day of summer,

high down 2 to 75

(Pleasant Hill, 74 /

San Ramon, 73),

with score-study of page 4 Igor Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms -- as part of The Opus Project presents Opus 64 (8pm, Saturday, April 28, 2018, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive) --