[Hoping beaches will not be burning during Quiz 13 (Figured Bass, given sometime after 7:55am, Thursday, May 2, Diablo Valley College Music, Pleasant Hill, CA]
Voice-Leading Cautions
Avoid Voice-Overlaps (Voice-Crossings) - Ex. Bass may not leap above previous Tenor Note
Avoid Parallel 5ths and Octaves in Traditional Harmony
- these may be acceptable or even unavoidable in Contemporary usages
- some may be avoided by not keeping common tone and simply instead using Contrary Motion
- with inversions, Doubling Root may be preferable to the (First-Semester) Doubled Bass strategy
Figured Bass Reminders
Figures (Arabic Numbers and Accidentals) refer to operations above a given Bass
b6
First Inversion - 6 implies 3 (latter is sometimes stated, if altered - ex. b3
- Root is up at least an Octave - Third of Chord will be the Bass
Second Inversion - 6 - Root and Third are at least up an Octave - Fifth of Chord will be Bass
4
7 implies 5 and 3
Repeated Bass Notes with no change of Chord may be represented in Upper Voices by
longer Note Values appropriate to context
Consequences of Inversions, add6's, and 7th Chords
No Doubling necessary in add6 or 7th Chords
- since there will be 4 Chord-Tones: 1 for each Voice (S A T B)
Inversions, add6's, and 7th Chords may result in fewer or more
Common Tones than in corresponding Root-Position Triads
Keyboard-Sofege
John Williams (b. 1932) - Star Wars (1977): The Force
(N.B. Melody and Chords may be performed sequentially, rather than simultaneously)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1937VEYguI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(soundtrack)
Other Music Referenced in Quiz 13
John Williams
Star Wars
Main Title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D0ZQPqeJkk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(Main_Title)
Princess Leia's Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDZa6SdnAgo
Cantina Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHD-knhS6es
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Yoda's Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMw6ufg-g9Y
Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzWSJG93P8
Philip Glass (b. 1937) - Einstein on the Beach (1975): BED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZf34B8SImo (@ 2:17:56)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Glass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_on_the_Beach
Roger Waters (b. 1942) - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (1975): I-V
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmbLRLMRiIk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Waters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine_On_You_Crazy_Diamond
(N.B. Wikipedia's accounting of I-V differs from the sheet music)
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SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRAMark Alburger, Music Director
Under Deconstruction
Rehearsal I
7pm, Thursday, April 25, 2019
Stardust Residence, 304 Winfield Street, San Francisco, CA
Mark Alburger and John Kendall Bailey, conducting
7:00 Michael Cooke Symphony No. 4 ("Deconstructing Beethoven") (2019) (13')
2111 1100 4Perc 11111 (16)
I. Allegro con brio
III. Tempo di Menuetto
7:35 Mark Alburger Broke Dance Suite, Op. 290 (2018) (5')
1121 2100 Pf 3Perc 11111 (17)
I. Bourgeois Ouverture (Comedie-Ballet)
II. Allemande Left-Right (Brothers' Joy)
III. Au Courante (Sweet Expectation, Running)
IV. Varese Sarabande (Icy Folia)
V. Unkempt Gigue (Images from the Stark Land)
7:50 Book of Revelation, Op. 296 (2019) (5')
1121 2100 Pf 3Perc 11111 (17)
Chapter I - I Am the Alpha
Chapter II - Message to Ephasus
Chapter III - As for You, Sardis
Chapter IV - Come Up Here
Chapter V - Who Then Will Open
Chapter VI - A White Horse
8:05 Broke Dance Intermezzi: B, Op. 298 (2019) (10')
IVb8. Bergamasque Mask (Rustic)
IVb9. Ice Bergerette (In the Bush)
IVb10. CrumBolero (Militaire)
IVb11. Bonne Bon… (Anatomic Memorial)
IVb11. Bechtel Bouree (Precipitous)
IVb12. Brando Bransle (Brawl)
IVb13 …de Bourgogne (Red)
IVb14 …de Champagne (Mummers)
8:35 Break
8:50 John Beeman
Ishi
2111 2100 2V 3Perc 11111 (18)
Act I: Scene 9 (2019)
9:25 Davide Verotta Incandescent (2019)
0000 0000 5Perc 11111 (10)
First rehearsal of Spring 2019 SFCCO goes well in Stardust's spectacular
aerie,
on
the
26th
day
of
summer,
high down
2 to 91 --
Fairfield, 85
Martinez, 64
Pleasant Hill, 87
San Francisco, 56
-- rendezvousing with the Theoreticians, despite technical challenges,
with more fine Student Compositions,
then
the
meandering
pull
to
San Francisco
over the bridge,
and
eventually
up to the Heights,
studying
scores
and
vistas.
Homeward
late,
impossibly composing
Broke Dance Intermezzi: P, Op. 312
IVp4. Post-Minimal Pavane (Sleeping Princess on the Beach)
Gabriel Faure, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Maurice Ravel, Peter Warlok, Philip Glass
and editing the 57-and-last page re new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act V, Scene 1
