[John Cage, clearly OK about not being featured on Quiz 11 (20th-Century Music III), Wednesday, April 17, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon]
Write your own 4-Note Passage (Prime), followed by its Retrograde (Backwards),
Inversion (Upside-Down), and Retrograd-Inversion (Backwards Upside-Down)
Example:
Prime: DEAG
Retrograde: GADE (the above backwards)
Inversion: DCGA (start with first note of Prime,
inverting intervals... D to E is a 2nd up, in Prime
so, D to C is a 2nd down, in Inversion, etc.
Retrograde-Inversion: AGCD (backwards of the Inversion)
Instrumentation of Three Styles of Jazz (Oldest to Most Recent - c. 1920 - 1950)
Dixieland Swing Bebop
(New-Orleans Style) (Big Band) (Bop)
[Horns] [1-2] Clarinet(s) [4-5] Saxophones Saxophone
[1-2] Trumpet(s) [4-5] Trumpets Trumpet
Trombone [4-5] Trombones Trombone
Rhythm Banjo Guitar Guitar
Piano Piano Piano
Bass [Tuba] Bass Bass
Drums Drums Drums
Listening
Samuel Barber - Second Essay for Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34NThn0cZE8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Barber
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Essay_for_Orchestra_(Barber)
Alan Hovhaness - And God Created Great Whales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1KvNY8D8YY (@1.29)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Hovhaness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_God_Created_Great_Whales
Benjamin Britten - War Requiem: II. Dies Irae
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLSo5tPOlyQ (@ 9:30)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Britten
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Requiem
Leonard Bernstein - Chichester Psalms: II. Psalm 23 / 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1axCTkIfP9Q (@ 3:40)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Bernstein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichester_Psalms
Pierre Boulez - Le Marteau sans Maitre (The Masterless Hammer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShcb8ogLYo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Boulez
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Marteau_sans_maître
George Crumb - Black Angels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etHtCVeU4-I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Crumb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Angels_(Crumb)
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Quiz 10 for the Theoreticians -- Sergei Prokofiev et al --
on
the
12th
day
of
summer, high up 2 to 74 (locally and in Fairfield... 3 days in a row the same)
Martinez, 71
Pleasant Hill, 73
Danville, 69
San Ramon, 64
taking a final jaunt on the
free
section
of
South
Gate
(part of the DVCSR to PH route via Mt. Diablo -- will do the rest after purchasing an off-season State Park Pass, since now at eligible age),
just a short stretch from Seventh Canyon to the
Ranger Station.
Back
downslope
and
another
stroll finishing the Alameda Diablo stretch
(Hacienda to Wall) re
DVC-San-Ramon-to-Pleasant-Hill western course.
Via
errands,
at
last
homeward
to
begin
Broke Dance Intermezzi: M, Op. 309
IVm1. Danse Macabre (Alien)
Camille Saint-Saens, George Crumb, Mark Alburger
[8 pages]
finish
Broke Dance Intermezzi: L, Op. 308
IVl3. Loree Luray Loure (Cavernous)
Jean-Baptiste Lully, J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel
[3 / 30]
and edit page 42 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act V, Scene 1
