MARK ALBURGER, 2019: March 21 - Whatever Fortune May Bring

[Edvard Munch's 1893 work is probably not the best way to approach Music Theory Quiz 9, given sometime after 7:55am, Thursday, March 28, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA]

Secundal Harmony - in Seconds
(fairly rare -
Bela Bartok (1881-1945) - Concerto for Orchestra (1943): II. Game of Pairs,
trumpet duet, is a good example)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb37dJFPoFg (second movement begins @ 10:05)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerto_for_Orchestra_(Bartók)

http://imslp.org/wiki/Concerto_for_Orchestra%2C_Sz.116_(Bartók%2C_Béla)

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

Tertian Harmony - in Thirds
(common-practice harmony, c. 1650-1900 and beyond)

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

Quartal and Quintal Harmony - in Fourths and Fifths
(Medieval / Early Renaissance / some 20th and 21st-Century Music -
Claude Debussy (1860-1916) Piano Preludes [1910]: Book 1, X. The Sunken Cathedral)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVMGwPDP-Yk (with score)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Préludes_(Debussy)

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

http://imslp.org/wiki/Préludes%2C_Livre_1_(Debussy%2C_Claude)

     VIII. The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (nice minor 7th chord and plagal cadences!)

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy65UdvuHYk

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

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

Syncopation

The accenting of relatively weak musical impulses (upbeats)

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

Keyboard / Solfege

Scott Joplin - The Entertainer (1902): Measure 4, with 16th-note pickups (R.H.)
(a great example of a syncopated melody)

Solfege: Re Ri Mi Do Mi Do Mi Do (italics 8va)

Fingering: R.H. 1 2 1 5 (etc.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aSve-KT0To

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entertainer_(rag)

http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Entertainer_(Joplin%2C_Scott)

     The close association of Ri-Mi (D#-E or Me-Mi Eb-E) is an early example of notated
     Blue Notes - seemingy suggesting a "neutral third" microtone between said pitches...

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

Other Examples of Syncopation

Debussy - The Children's Corner (1909) - Golliwog's Cakewalk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJqdP-1jUyA

http://imslp.org/wiki/Children%27s_Corner_(Debussy%2C_Claude)

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) - The Rite of Spring (1913): Part I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFPjFjUonX8

(Dances of the Adolescents @3.27 is a famous syncopated bitonal section -
8:22, in Bb Dorian is also features syncopation)

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)

C / Db Whole-Tone, Gb / F# Major, Bb / Eb Minor Scales
Chord Sequence in C Major: IM7, I, I6, I64, V7, I (or I64) - Treble Staff only for latter

Whole-Tone Scales typically use accidentals, rather than key signatures
Black Notes may be spelled with Flats, Sharps, or combination of both
(to be sung in solfege however notated)

R.H. fingering for 7th chords - 5
                                                   3
                                                   2
                                         1

         fingering for 6 position -   5
                                                   2
                                                 1

fingering for 6/4 position -    5
                                                 3
                                                 1

Atonal (Pantonal) Music - Music evoking no (or all) tonality

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

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

   Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19 (1913)

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGLcUfbVF3k

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

          http://imslp.org/wiki/6_Little_Piano_Pieces,_Op.19_(Schoenberg,_Arnold)

     Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21: I. Moon-Drunk

         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbTn7Y9XAhA

         http://imslp.org/wiki/Pierrot_Lunaire,_Op.21_(Schoenberg,_Arnold)

Anton Webern - Five Pieces for Orchestra

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

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)

12-Tone Music - Music based on re-ordering the Chromatic Scale
   In classic Schoenberg usage, the use of a Tone Row, i.e.
             one selected ordering (Prime), a series of intervallic relationships, which can also be stated
             backwards (Retrograde)
             upside-down (Inversion)
             backwards upside-down (Retrograde-Inversion)

            The row (and operations) can be begin on any one of the 12 notes of the Chromatic Scale,
            4 operations x 12 starting notes = 48 Permutations of a Row

   Schoenberg - A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46 (1948)

           https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z51uNyqdk5E

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

Other Music Relative to Week 9

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) - Symphony No. 4 (1934): I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMG70e0Usn0

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

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

Charles Ives (1874-1954)

    Symphony No. 4: I(1916)

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

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

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

     104 Songs (1922): XLII. Serenity

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9ZWKvxpD0w

   http://imslp.org/wiki/114_Songs_(Ives,_Charles)

Stravinsky

     The Firebird (1909)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHmk7yccvws

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

Petrushka (1911)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrushka_(ballet)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vGoToGx_7k

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Scott Joplin's The Entertainer (1902) for Dictation / Keyboard-Solfege, and with Charles Ives's Serenity (1919), Board Harmony for the Music Theoreticians,