[Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev concerned about Joseph Stalin, but not re Quiz 10 -- 20th-Century Music II, to be given sometime after 11:10am, Wednesday, October 31, 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
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Quiz 9
(20th-Century I) for the Music Historians...
211th
day
of
summer,
high
up
4 to 79
(locally and in Pleasant HIll, a unique temp for the month -- Fairfield / Martinez / Danville, 77; San Ramon, 70),
ever
nearer
to South Gate
along Seventh Promontory,
re the DVCSR-to-Diablo walking route.
Eventually
homeward
to
page 35
new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act III, compose
Cliff Variations, Op. 287 (2018)
Theme and 30 Passacaglic Life Changes
Variation II [Philip Glass (b. 1937) - The Illusionist (2006): XXI. Life in the Mountains],
and produce...
Medieval Orchestrations, Op. 288 (2018)
I. Robertsbridge Fragment Composer (b. c. 1290) - Organ Estampie (c. 1320)
(after Anton Webern's Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6: 1, 1909)
