March 20 - Imitative


[Ralph Vaughan Williams's great-uncle Charles Darwin (in parody above), keen on the music of Quiz 9 (20th-Century I), 12:10pm, Wednesday, March 27, 2018, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon]


C Whole-Tone Scale



(Please write your own) 12-Tone Row

Any re-ordering of a Chromatic Scale


Two New-Music Ensembles

Pierrot [after Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire (The Moonstruck, or Mad Puppet)]

Flute
Clarinet
Piano
Violin
Cello

Histoire [after Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat (The Story of a Soldier)]

Clarinet
Bassoon
Trumpet
Trombone
Percussion
Violin
Bass


Igor Stravinsky's Birth-Death Dates, Three Stylistic Periods - Types of Music Written

1882-1971

Modernist (Post-Impressionist, Primitive, Russian) - Ballets
Neoclassic - Ballets, Concertos, Operas, Symphonies
Serial - Ballets, Memorial Pieces



Listening


Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 4: I [1934]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YuUMoqJESU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Vaughan_Williams)

https://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.4_in_F_minor_(Vaughan_Williams%2C_Ralph)


Charles Ives - Symphony No. 4: I [1916 / 1924]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xXv55ARtsM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Ives)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12j1wdKE4zU


Bela Bartok - Piano Concerto No. 1: I [1926]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMwH3011tTk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Béla_Bartók

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No._1_(Bart%C3%B3k)

https://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No.1%2C_Sz.83_(Bart%C3%B3k%2C_B%C3%A9la)


Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring: Part I [1913]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP42C-4zL3w

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring

http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring_(Stravinsky,_Igor)


Anton Webern - Five Pieces for Orchestra [1913]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reqqQ-kBJQ0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Webern

https://www.allmusic.com/composition/pieces-5-for-orchestra-op-10-mc0002362388

http://imslp.org/wiki/5_Pieces_for_Orchestra,_Op.10_(Webern,_Anton)


Alban Berg - Wozzeck: Act I, Scene 3 - March and Lullaby [1922]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdinmlIdnYw (@16:15)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alban_Berg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wozzeck

http://imslp.org/wiki/Wozzeck%2C_Op.7_(Berg%2C_Alban)

***


Another investigation along the Pony Express route,


now from Togo's over


Putah South Canal,


across Nut Tree to the vistas of I-80,


paralleling both back northeast towards the


Vacaville Pillar opposite Mel's,


and


return


to


grade


papers


near


the


parking.


Before this the trip south to the Music Historians, for late Romanticism and Quiz 8, and return --


on the 72nd day of spring,


high plummeting down 10 to 64


(locally / Fairfield)


Martinez, 60
Pleasant Hill, 63
Danville, 62
San Ramon, 59

... .48 additional rainfall, 25.99 since July 1...


Back


home, edit page 21 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act V, Scene 1 + finish


Broke Dance Intermezzi: F, Op. 302 [92 pages total]

with

    IVf9. … of the Furies (Dioclesian / Diocletian)
             Henry Purcell, Mark Alburger

[20]

and

Broke Dance Intermezzi: G, Op. 303
    IVg7. Danse Grotesque (Revels)
            Maurice Ravel

[5]