October 31 - Pretty Scary
[John Cage, clearly OK about not being featured on Quiz 11 (20th-Century Music III), Wednesday, November 7, 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 - And God Created Great Whales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1KvNY8D8YY (@1.29)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Hovhaness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_God_Created_Great_Whales
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_maƮtre
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)
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Ah, Halloween, towards the end of Daylight Savings, Quiz 10 (20th-Century II) in Music History!
218th day of summer, high back up 3 to the default 82... the entire month's highs ranging only from 75-87, with merely 8 recurring temps (a German notation of letters from A-H, double DNA code), a large complex rondo with introductory material and C as main theme:
188 - October 1 - 81 A
189 - October 2 - 84 B
190 - October 3 - 82 C
191 - October 4 - 75 D
192 - October 5 - 81 A
193 - October 6 - 82 C
194 - October 7 - 82 C
195 - October 8 - 87 E
196 - October 9 - 84 B
197 - October 10 - 77 F
198 - October 11 - 80 G
199 - October 12 - 87 E
200 - October 13 - 84 B
201 - October 14 - 82 C
202 - October 15 - 84 B
203 - October 16 - 87 E
204 - October 17 - 82 C
205 - October 18 - 84 B
206 - October 19 - 87 E
207 - October 20 - 84 B
208 - October 21 - 82 C
209 - October 22 - 80 G
210 - October 23 - 75 D
211 - October 24 - 79 H
212 - October 25 - 82 C
213 - October 26 - 82 C
214 - October 27 - 82 C
215 - October 28 - 82 C
216 - Ocotber 29 - 77 F
217 - October 30 - 79 H
218 - October 31 - 82 C
Fairfield, 81
Martinez, 79
Pleasant Hill and
San Jose, 80
Danville, 78
San Ramon, 72...
Down
80
and
680
to
Contra Costa
and
DVCSR,
eventually
further
forward
in
Alameda
through Sunol,
over the Pass,
past
Mission
and
Monument Peaks to
Megan Cullen's for another
Giorgio Spagnoli Seniors at Play (John Gehl) rehearsal, re Goat Hall Productions' Fresh Voices XVIII (8pm Saturday, November 3, Community Music Center, 544 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA).
The
long
way
homeward
back
through
beauteous
Heraclitan
landscapes
to
the
familiar
realms
of
still-scenic Solano for editing page 42 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act III, and composing
Cliff Variations, Op. 287 (2018)
Theme and 30 Passacaglic Life Changes
Variation IX [George Bruns (1914-1983 - 101 Dalmatians: Cruella da Vil]
over various vivid videos...