April 24 - Going Various Directions
[Variations on Themes, for Quiz 13, sometime after 11:10am, Wednesday, May 1, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon, CA]
Write a Minimalist Passage (in Bass Clef)
(Any series of notes featuring repetition)
Three Root Position C Root-Position 7th Chords (in Bass Clef)
Triads (T) and 7th Intervals in 3 typical 7th Chords
Triad - Major (M) or minor (m) 7th Interval (M7 or m7)
Major 7th Chord = MT + M7
Dominant 7th Chord = MT + m7
Minor 7th Chord = mT + m7
Three Stylistic Periods after the Baroque and before Present - and Dates
Classical 1750-1825
Romantic 1825-1900
20th-Century 1900-2000
Listening
Sting - Every Breath You Take
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_(musician)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_Breath_You_Take
Mark Alburger - Camino Real: Block 9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2dJSGkCrxA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Alburger
http://markalburgerworks.blogspot.com/2003/02/camino-real-op-10.html
Tan Dun - Ghost Opera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtpgURs9c5Y
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Dun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Dun:_Ghost_Opera
Hans Zimmer - Interstellar: Where We're Going
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zimmer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_(soundtrack)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGoJrE0HqqE
Prince - Darling Nikki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA_FqxZLSMk
(video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnm-u4Xq9ag
(coda)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darling_Nikki
Erling Wold - Sub Pontio Pilato: Credo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PCkw3yNZDQ (@ 1:33:04)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Wold
http://www.erlingwold.com/listofworks.html
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John Adams's Nixon in China: I Am the Wife of Mao Tse Tung and other rallying points for the Music Historians,
on
the
25th
day
of
summer,
high
tying
with
yesterday
(93, locally and in Fairfield)
as
the
warmest
this year --
Martinez, 89
Pleasant Hill, 92
Danville, 87
San Ramon, 88
-- composing
Broke Dance Intermezzi: P, Op. 312
IVp3. Pandiatonic Passepied (Game Theory)
J.S. Bach, Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky
and editing page 56 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act V, Scene 1...