[Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev in dread of Joseph Stalin, but not of Quiz 10 -- 20th-Century Music II, to be given sometime at 12noon, Thursday, July 19 , 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 - Peter and the Wolf
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2lfzt4
(N.B. this is the Walt Disney version - not quite Prokofiev's original!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Prokofiev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_the_Wolf
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 - Appalachian Spring: II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVahuS9hk_s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Copland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Spring
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
***
Ain't we got fun in Music History -- Igor Stravinsky et. al. for lecture and
Quiz 9 (20th-Century Music I) --
also
on
the
gorgeous
way
down
680
and
Dougherty,
to DVCSR,
then
beyond,
walking with Harriet on the San-Ramon-to Mt.-Diablo Route,
now very briefly on South Gate from
Second Canyon Divide west.
112th
day
of
summer,
holding again to
102 (AABAA of 102-102-100-102-102 last 5 days, or ABCBBDCCACC of 100-98-102-98-98-97-102-102-100-102-102 last 11)...
Fairfield, 93
Martinez, 88
Pleasant Hill, 94
Danville, 91
San Ramon, 87
Various
videos in the evening,
including one on Augustus Saint-Gaudens,
whose work is referenced in Charles Ives's Three Places in New England: I. The "St. Gaudens" in Boston Common (Col. Shaw and his Colored Regiment) (1912) -- while continuing work editing page 36 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act II, and system 5 Dan Cook Canyon: Six Tethered Tales 'Round Danville, CA, Op. 285 (2018): II. Al Diablo Contigo (Dan Cook Inherits a Ranch / Big Trains of Californian Aristocracy)...
