[Likely, as Camille Saint-Saens plays diabolically before Quiz 8 (Romantic Music II), 12:10pm, Wednesday, March 20, 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
Georges Bizet - Carmen: Act I - Habanera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPEGo_Tkl1c
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Bizet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen
http://imslp.org/wiki/Carmen_(Bizet,_Georges)
Peter Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 ("Pathetique"): I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDqCIcsUtPI
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=yW7py67QqZU (@ 39:00)
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)
Erik Satie - Three Gymnopedies: Gymnopedie No. 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW33wN2EufY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Satie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnopédies
http://imslp.org/wiki/3_Gymnopédies_(Satie%2C_Erik)
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Quiz 7 (Classical / Romantic I) for the Music Historians,
on
the
70th
day of spring,
high down 6 to 64
Davis, 63
Fairfield, 70 [!]
Martinez / Pleasant Hill, 65
Danville, 62
San Ramon, 57 [!]
Another walk on the DVCSR-to-DVC west route,
now along Alameda Diablo,
from White Hacienda to Oak Wall,
under the metaphoric gaze of Short Ridge,
then
to
edit
page 14 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act V, Scene 1, and compose
Broke Dance Intermezzi: F, Op. 302
IVf2. Quadruple Farandole (Bizarre)
Jean-Baptiste Lully, Georges Bizet, Mark Alburger
[18 pages total]...
