March 27 - Russian Collusion!
[Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev concerned about many situations, but not re Quiz 10 -- 20th-Century Music II, to be given sometime after 11:10am, Wednesday, April 10, 2019, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon, CA]
C (Lydian) Blues Scale / Four C Chords
Chord Pattern in a Typical 12-Bar Blues
Chord I
Measure 1 2 3 4
IV I
5 6 7 8
V IV I
9 10 11 12
Listening
Sergei Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf
https://www.teachertube.com/video/peter-and-the-wolf-245162
(N.B. this is the Walt Disney version - not quite Prokofiev's original!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Prokofiev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_the_Wolf
George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2_yRwPPIEc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gershwin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhapsody_in_Blue
http://imslp.org/wiki/Rhapsody_in_Blue_(Gershwin,_George)
Francis Poulenc - Double Piano Concerto: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V87wGyfUQiQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Poulenc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerto_for_Two_Pianos_and_Orchestra_(Poulenc)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Concerto_for_2_Pianos,_FP_61_(Poulenc,_Francis)
Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVahuS9hk_s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Copland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Spring
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGXVXEYiZNM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._5_(Shostakovich)
Olivier Messiaen - Turangalila Symphonie: IV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Qh9Tttngk (@18:45)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Messiaen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turangal%C3%AEla-Symphonie
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Quiz 9 for the Music Historians, and hard to argue with a repertory of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Charles Ives, Bela Bartok, Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern, and Alban Berg --
on
the
79th
day
of
spring,
high
again
65
(.19 rainfall, 27.63 since July 1)
Fairfield, 64
Martinez, 62
Pleasant Hill, 63
Danville, 60
San Ramon, 59
Once again on the
Pony Express
route,
now southwest
from Best Western
to
Allison,
returning to
Panda Express for paper grading.
Homeward
and
eventually
errands towards
sunset,
and,
on either side of this, the editing of page 28 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act V, Scene 1, and composition re
Broke Dance Intermezzi: H, Op. 304
IVh6. Outback Hop (Elastic)
Saint-Saens, Alburger
[9 pages total]