[John Cage, still laughing, even though he is not featured on Quiz 11 (20th-Century Music III), Tuesday, July 24, 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)
Benjamin Britten - War Requiem: II. Dies Irae
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLSo5tPOlyQ (@ 9:30)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Britten
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Requiem
Leonard Bernstein - 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 - 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 - Black Angels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44u71qJFh00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Crumb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Angels_(Crumb)
Edwin London - Portraits of Three Ladies: I. Pocahontas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMl5MR60lHA
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_London (Google translation of Dutch below...)
Edwin Wolf London ( Philadelphia , March 16, 1929 - Seattle , January 26, 2013 ) was an American composer , music pedagogue , conductor and horn player .
Content
1 Life course
2 Compositions
2.1 Working for orchestra
2.2 Working for concert band
2.3 Music theater
2.3.1 Operas
2.4 Vocal music
2.4.1 Oratoria
2.4.2 Working for choir
2.4.3 Songs
2.5 Chamber music
2.6 Working for percussion
3 Bibliography
4 External link
Life course
London grew up in and near Philadelphia. As a child he learned to play the horn and later changed to trumpet . In 1946 he became a horn player in the 774th United States Air Force Band in Fairbanks . London studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin and received his Bachelor of Music (1952) as a performing musician (horn). He then studied at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and obtained his Master of Music in music theory and orchestral conducting . He completed his studies at the same university and graduated in 1961 to Ph.D. (Philosophiæ Doctor) in composition with the opera Santa Claus . [1] [2] Among his teachers were Philip Greeley Clapp , Philip Bezanson , Luigi Dallapiccola , Darius Milhaud and Gunther Schuller .
In 1956 he married Janet MacLeod.
He started his musical career as a horn player with the Orquestra Sinfonica de Venezuela ; He also played in the Oscar Pettiford Jazz Band in New York . From 1960 to 1969 he was first a teacher at Smith College and then until 1978 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana . At the University of Illinois he founded the "Ineluctable Modality", a chamber choir, which was mainly concerned with the interpretation of new music. He was also a guest professor at the University of California - San Diego (1972-1973). From 1978 to 2004 he was a lecturer at Cleveland State University in Cleveland . For a certain time he was head of the music department. In Cleveland he founded the Cleveland Chamber Symphony in 1980. [3]
As a conductor he was mainly involved with the orchestras and ensembles he founded, such as the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and the Ineluctable Modality choir. In 2001 he received the Ditson Conductor's Award for his merit as conductor.
For his compositions he received a number of prizes and awards such as the Cleveland Arts Prize for composition in 1982. From 1977 to 1981 he was director of the American Society of University Composers .
Compositions
Working for orchestra
1959 Overture to The Imaginary Invalid , for chamber orchestra
1990 Be-bop dreams , for horn and chamber ensemble
1993 In Heinrich's shoes , for chamber orchestra - based on the Johannes-Passion (SWV 481) by Heinrich Schütz
Scenes , for flute and chamber orchestra
Working for concert band
1962 Three Symphonic Sketches , for wind band
Edera-Ellera
Lupo di mare
Terra nova
1980 Psalm of These Days V (Psalm 47) , for mixed choir and wind band
Music theater
Operas
Completed in title deeds premiere libretto
1960 Santa Claus - a mime opera based on the morality 1 deed December 8, 1960 , Iowa City , University of Iowa to EE Cummings
1972 Tala Obtusities March 10, 1972 , Urbana , Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Charles Dickens
1976 The Death of Lincoln April 29, 1988 , Cleveland , Cleveland State University Main Classroom Auditorium Donald Justice
1981 Metaphysical Vegas 1981 Milwaukee , University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee from the composer, to
Andrew Marvell , Ben Jonson
Vocal music
Oratoria
The iron hand , oratory for mixed choir and orchestra - libretto: Donald Justice
Working for choir
1962 Five haiku , for women's choir a capella
Leaves
In the moonlight
A spring day
The whale
At the year's end
1962 The third day - (Thus so gently) , for mixed choir a capella
1963 Washington miscellany , for double choir text: from letters from George Washington
Promises
Time
Potatoes
1965 Osanna , for women's choir and piano
1968 Four proverbs , for soprano solo, female choir, 2 trumpets and bassoon
1969 3 settings of the XXIII Psalm , a) for women's choir in Hebrew ; b) for male choir in Latin or c) for mixed choir in English
1970 - 1971 Day of desolation , for mixed choir and bells
1971 Enter madmen , for male choir (at least 17 votes) and instruments - text: John Webster
1973 The Polonius platitudes , for male choir and balloons - text: William Shakespeare "Hamlet"
1974 Bach (Again) , for mixed choir
1974 Better is , for women's choir a capella
1974 Christmas music , for tenor (solo), mixed choir (SATB), organ and bells
1974 Dream thing on Biblical episodes , for different female voices
1974 Sacred hair , for mixed choir and organ - text: Genesis 27:11 and Job 4: 15-17
1975 Geistliche Musik - or Advent-sure on OK chorales , for mixed choir, orchestra and tape recorder
1975 Genesis 21: 6 , for voices and instruments
1976 Wounded Byrd song , for soprano solo, six mixed choirs and drone
1977 Psalm of These Days I , for soprano (solo), mixed choir, kazoo , flute and string quartet - text: van Psalm 34
1977 Psalm of these days II , for mixed choir - text: from Psalm 131
1977 Psalm of these days III , for mixed (or male) choir and instruments
1980 Moon Sound Zone , for mixed choir, string quartet and triangle
1994 Jove's Nectar (seven variants on a text by Ben Jonson) , for mixed choir text: Andrew Marvell and Ben Jonson
Estampie
Celia's Hiccups
Canon for Dizzy
Dr. Lassus
Strangers from the East
Fanfaronnada
Dirge with Bells
Bjørne Enstabile's Xmas music , for mixed choir, organ and bells
Dream thing on Biblical episodes , for women's choir a capella
In the firmament - Psalm 150 , for mixed choir and orchestra
Songs
1960 The bear's song , for tenor and piano - text: Constance Lindsay Skinner
1972 rev. 1973 Poebells (a ritual action) , for speaker, mezzo-soprano, tenor and percussion ensemble - text: Edgar Allen Poe
1990 Two a 'Marvell's for words , for bass-baritone solo and chamber orchestra - text: Andrew Marvell
To his coy mistress
A dialogue between the soul and body
Peter Quince at the clavier , for voice and orchestra - text: Wallace Stevens
Portraits or Three Ladies , for speaker, soprano and chamber ensemble
Chamber music
1956 rev. 1969 Trio , for flute, clarinet in A and piano
1962 Sonatina , for viola and piano
1963 Blow quintet
1964 Song and dance , for flute and piano
1965 Copper quintet
1972 Einsame Blumen , for brass ensemble (4 horns, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, baritone and tuba)
1979 Love in the afternoon , a musical poem for four tubas
Gypsy Heirs , for violin and piano
Working for percussion
1974 Roll , for 3 to 12 percussionists
https://www.discogs.com/Edwin-London-George-Crumb-Portraits-Of-Three-Ladies-American-Madrigals-Books-I-IV/release/939300
Edwin London Portraits Of Three Ladies (American)
Composed By – Edwin London
Conductor – Edwin London
Ensemble – The University Of Illinois Contemporary Chamber Ensemble
Flute, Piccolo Flute – Thomas Howell
Clarinet – Robert Quade
Bass Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone – Ronald Dewar
(2)Trumpet – Jerry Tessin, Kenneth Serrantino
French Horn – James Keays
Trombone – Robert Weiss
Tuba – James Plondke
Soprano – Marilyn Coles
Narrator – Royal MacDonald
Percussion – Charles Braugham, Michael Udow
Violin – Andrea Een
Cello – Lee Duckles
Contrabass – Jon Deak
Pocohontas [1595? - 1617] by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet
Princess Pocahontas,
Powhatan's daughter,
Stared at the white men
Come across the water.
She was like a wild deer
Or a bright, plumed bird,
Ready then to flash away
At one harsh word.
When the faces answered hers,
Paler yet, but smiling,
Pocahontas looked and looked,
Found them quite beguiling.
Likes the whites and trusted them,
Spite of kin and kith,
Fed and protected
Captain John Smith.
Pocahontas was revered
By each and every one.
She married John Rolfe
She had a Rolfe son.
She crossed the sea to London Town
And must have found it queer,
To be Lady Rebecca
And the toast of the year.
"La Belle Sauvage! La Belle Sauvage!
Our nonpareil is she!"
But Princess Pochahontas
Gazed sadly toward the sea.
They gave her silk and furbelows.
She pined, as wild things do
And, when she died at Gravesend
She was only twenty-two.
Poor wild bird - -
No one can be blamed.
But gentle Pocahontas
Was a wild thing tamed.
And everywhere the lesson runs,
All through the ages:
Wild things die
In the very finest cages.
***
The hour is nigh for
Quiz 10 (20th-Century II - with music of Prokofiev, Gershwin, Poulenc, Copland, Shostakovich, and Messiaen) --
114th
day
of
summer,
high
back
down
3
to
that ever-popular 102, for a nice rondo of AABAACA (102-102-100-102-102-105-102) last 7 days all at the century-mark or better, and an even more ambitious one of AABCAADAAEA (102-98-98-97-102-102-100-102-102-105-102) in recent 11.
Fairfield,
Martinez,
Pleasant Hill,
Danville,
San Ramon,
No reason not to go back to the
high country for the next
San-Ramon-to-Mt.-Diablo
jaunt:
further east on South Gate
from
Second
Canyon
to
Third
Promontary
Sign,
and
returning
to
tell
the
tale.
It's
another
long
tailspin
to
the
tip
of
consciousness
for
editing
page
38
new-edition
Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act II and composing system 7 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)...
