[Leonard Bernstein, pondering the necessity of traditional voice-leading in Quiz 12, to be given sometime after 7:55am, Thursday, November 15, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA]
Choral-Style Voicing
S (all stems up)
Treble Clef will contain
A (all stems down)
T (all stems up)
Bass Clef will contain
B (all stems down)
Open-Spacing Realizaton of Root-Position Chords
Over a given Bass-Clef Root,
choose a Soprano Chord-Tone,
Alto and Tenor will be every-other Chord Tone downward
(skip a chord-tone, use, skip a chord-tone, use)
Keyboard-Solfege
Andrew Lloyd-Webber (b. 1948) - Jesus Christ Superstar (1970): Hosanna
G: D E D C D C B A G... Bb
Sol La Sol Fa Sol Fa Mi Re Do... Me
R.H. 4 5 4 3 5 4 3 2 1... 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsKLXFlhk7s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lloyd_Webber
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Superstar_(album)
12-Bar Blues (Realization and Performance in Ab)
- no chord above measure indicates continuation of harmony from previous measure)
Chords in Ab: Ab
Chord #s: I
Measures: 1 2 3 4
(usually 4/4)
Db Ab
IV I
5 6 7 8
Eb Db Ab
V IV I
9 10 11 12
N.B. first measure of each 4-measure group outlines I-IV-V
V to IV is measures 9-10 is very characteristic of blues, and very unusual in traditional harmony
Plagal cadences are important in blues,
Measures 9 to 11 seem to be an authentic cadence interrupted by a plagal one!
(Variants
in slow blues, sometimes first four bars will be
I IV I
1 2 3 4
in fast blues, sometimes last four bars will be
V I
9 10 11 12
in mid-tempo blues, directly above has occasionally been alteredto
ii (II?) V I
9 10 11
in repeated 12-bar "choruses" measure 12 is often a "turnaround"
V back to I
12 1
First 4 bars can be expanded to 8
Ex. Willie Dixon (1915-1992) - Hoochie Coochie Man (1954)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFxrLOVwsEE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Dixon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoochie_Coochie_Man )
Other Music Referenced in Quiz 12
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) - 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
Paul McCartney (b. 1942) - Yesterday (1965)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday_(Beatles_song)
Roger Waters - Dark Side of the Moon (1973): Brain Damage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77n1mDf6Iqo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Waters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Damage_(song)
***
Logistical considerations oblige us to utilize Owen's idiosyncratically-arranged classroom for the first half of the double session,
in order to show projections,
then we migrate back to our familiar locality re Quiz 11 for the Theoreticians, with musical examples drawn from the works of Duke Ellington, Olivier Messiaen, Bela Bartok, John Cage, Jester Hairston, and Richard Rodgers.
In
stark
contrast
to
the
shining
early-
morning
commute,
emerge from DVC Music Building to compromised skies, looking initially as if originating from the southeast, toward Mt. Diablo. But no, the smoke turns out to be blowing in from the northeast,
a conflagration having erupted in Paradise.
What a fall from grace!
On the holding-fast 227th day of summer, high down 5 to 72 (down 10 in 3 days -- 74 in Pleasant Hill)...
Editing page 50 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act III, and composing
Cliff Variations, Op. 287 (2018)
Theme and 30 Passacaglic Life Changes
Variation XVII [Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004) - Mulan (1998): II. Reflection]
over various impressive videos...
