MARK ALBURGER, 2019: April 18

[Leonard Bernstein, pondering the necessity of traditional voice-leading in Quiz 12, to be given sometime after 7:55am, Thursday, April 25, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA]

Choral-Style Voicing

                                         S (all stems up)
Treble Clef will contain
                                         A (all stems down)

                                        T (all stems up)
Bass Clef will contain
                                        B (all stems down)

Open-Spacing Realizaton of Root-Position Chords

Over a given Bass-Clef Root,
choose a Soprano Chord-Tone,
Alto and Tenor will be every-other Chord Tone downward
(skip a chord-tone, use, skip a chord-tone, use)

Keyboard-Solfege

Andrew Lloyd-Webber (b. 1948) - Jesus Christ Superstar (1970): Hosanna

G:    D   E D C D    C B A   G... Bb
       Sol La Sol Fa Sol Fa Mi Re Do... Me

R.H. 4 5     4   3   5    4    3    2   1...    3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsKLXFlhk7s

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Superstar_(album)

12-Bar Blues (Realization and Performance in Ab)

- no chord above measure indicates continuation of harmony from previous measure)

Chords in Ab: Ab
Chord #s:         I
Measures:        1    2    3    4
(usually 4/4)

                        Db       Ab
                        IV        I
                         5    6    7    8

                       Eb Db Ab
   V    IV    I
                       9    10    11   12

N.B. first measure of each 4-measure group outlines I-IV-V
V to IV is measures 9-10 is very characteristic of blues, and very unusual in traditional harmony
Plagal cadences are important in blues,
Measures 9 to 11 seem to be an authentic cadence interrupted by a plagal one!

(Variants

in slow blues, sometimes first four bars will be

I   IV   I
1   2    3   4

in fast blues, sometimes last four bars will be

V        I
9   10 11 12

in mid-tempo blues, directly above has occasionally been alteredto

ii (II?) V   I
9          10 11

in repeated 12-bar "choruses" measure 12 is often a "turnaround"

   V     back to    I
12                     1

First 4 bars can be expanded to 8

Ex. Willie Dixon (1915-1992) - Hoochie Coochie Man (1954)

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoochie_Coochie_Man   )

Other Music Referenced in Quiz 12

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) - Chichester Psalms: II. Psalm 23 / 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3WQkhptmVA (@ 5:00)

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

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

Paul McCartney (b. 1942) - Yesterday (1965)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday_(Beatles_song)

Roger Waters - Dark Side of the Moon (1973): Brain Damage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77n1mDf6Iqo

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Damage_(song)

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Broke Dance Intermezzi: N, Op. 310

IVn1. 42" Nijemo Kolo (Bosnian Intrusion)
Bosnia, Croatia, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen

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Broke Dance Intermezzi: M, Op. 309
IVm9. La Morisque (Henry VIII)
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