[Michael Cooke, wondering if his sax will be featured on Quiz 14 (21st-Century Music), sometime after 11:10am, Wednesday, May 8, 2019, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon, CA]
Write Four Bars of Music (make it interesting and/or beautiful and/or fun and/or dangerous)
Write a Short Essay on a Favorite Piece of Music (composer/performer and name of piece)
What makes it great? Use our typical vocabulary (paragraph of five or more sentences)
Listening
Michael Cooke - Music for Humans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1SSWqEOMwY
http://www.michaelkcooke.com/bio.html
Thomas Ades - Totentanz (Death Dance)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G8ySgSayK8
(@4:15 - interview w/ composer re work, previous to this...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Adès
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totentanz_(Adès)
Mason Bates - The B-Sides: V. Warehouse Medicine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZ1HhvZPlg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Bates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_B-Sides_(composition)
Steven Price - Gravity: Debris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFJdAAXaMRU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Price_(composer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity:_Original_Motion_Picture_Soundtrack
Mehdi Hosseini - The Baluch: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7IvipUYrm8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Hosseini
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baluch
Lady Gaga - Poker Face
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bESGLojNYSo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker_Face_(Lady_Gaga_song)
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Begin Broke Dance Intermezzi: R, Op. 314 (May 1, 2019)
with
IVr1. "Yonder in the North" Rabbit... (Dear Sweetheart)
Arapaho, Giuseppe Verdi, Harriet March Page, Mark Alburger
[16 pages total]
and edit page 4 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act V, Scene 2,
on
the
32nd
day of
summer,
high up 6 to 80 (Danville, 77 / San Ramon, 73),
rendevous'ing with the Music Historians as above,
and then out for another session on the lower-westward-DVC-San-Ramon-to-Pleasant-Hill route,
now on Diablo Boulevard east from
Fairway
to
Calle
Arroyo and
return.
After this,
further exploration to the end of Green Valley
to check out the
Macedo
Ranch
Staging
Area,
and
return
viewfully
up
680
against
the
Sulfur Springs
and
80,
with
Megan over for a visit...
