[Easy for you to say, maybe, as Camille Saint-Saens plays diabolically before Quiz 8 (Romantic Music II), 12:10pm, Wednesday, October 17, DVC, San Ramon]
C Chromatic Scale (Up in Sharps - C, C#, etc / Down in Flats C, B, Bb...)
[N.B. we say "C-Sharp" but write the Sharp in front of note in notation - same situation w/ Flats...
No E# B# on way up, no Cb or Fb on way down
--these are cases of two white notes w/o intervening black]
Instruments in a Large Orchestra
Woodwinds
[4] Flutes
[4] Oboes
[4] Clarinets
[4] Bassoons
Brass
[4] Trumpets
[8] Horns
[3] Trombones
[1] Tuba
Percussion
Harp
Piano
Mallets
Battery
Timpani
Strings
[17] Violin I
[15] Violin II
[13] Viola
[11] Cello
[9] Bass
Listening
Camille Saint-Saens - Symphony No. 3 ("Organ"): IIb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idL1kQex-ss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Saint-Saëns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._3_(Saint-Saëns)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.3,_Op.78_(Saint-Saëns,_Camille)
Peter Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 ("Pathetique"): II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDqCIcsUtPI (20:59-28:25)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._6_(Tchaikovsky)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.6,_Op.74_(Tchaikovsky,_Pyotr)
Giacomo Puccini - La Boheme: Act II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q0z66wkN2c (35:38-54:00)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Puccini
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_bohème
http://imslp.org/wiki/La_Bohème_(Puccini,_Giacomo)
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1: III
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEPERXpOqiU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._1_(Mahler)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.1_(Mahler%2C_Gustav)
Claude Debussy - Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43rzoDrD4e0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Debussy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A9lude_%C3%A0_l%27apr%C3%A8s-midi_d%27un_faune
http://imslp.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A9lude_%C3%A0_l%27apr%C3%A8s-midi_d%27un_faune_(Debussy%2C_Claude)
Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 2: II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sSFVvF7-W0 (10:42-25:14)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Sibelius
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._2_(Sibelius)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.2%2C_Op.43_(Sibelius%2C_Jean)
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Time for Quiz 7 (Classical / Romantic I), and --
on
this
197th day of summer,
high down 7 to
77...
Pleasant Hill, 74
Danville, 75
San Ramon, 70
-- auspicious
to
get
back
on
the
San-Ramon-to-Diablo
pilgrimage:
Fifth Canyon
to
Sixth Promontory.
The
inevitable
retrograde
course
thereafter,
financial adventures,
and
the
eventual
ending
up
with the editing of page 21 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act III...
