[Igor Stravinsky, not the least concerned about Exam, Part II, to be given c. 11:40am, Wednesday, May 22, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon, CA]
Write Any Scale (Other than a Major or Minor) and Identify
Write Four Chords (But Not on C) and Identify
Write the Instruments of a Large Orchestra, in Score Order
Listening
Igor Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUSfrgPQjRM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_of_Psalms
Timbre - Orchestra -[5 Flutes, 5 Oboes, 4 Bassoons, 4 Trumpets, 4 Horns, 3 Trombones, Tuba,
2 Harps, 2 Pianos, Percussion, Cellos, Basses]
Form - Through-Composed (Free Ternary ABA with Introduction)
Style - Neoclassic
Darius Milhaud - La Creation du Monde (The Creation of the World): Fugato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgqXq0es4wc (@ 5:00)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Milhaud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_cr%C3%A9ation_du_monde
Timbre - Chamber Orchestra [Flute, Oboe, 2 Clarinets, Alto Saxophone, Bassoon, 2 Trumpets, Horn, Trombone, Piano, 2 Percussion, 2 Violins, Cello, Bass]
Form - Fugato (Short Fugue)
Style - Neoclassic (Dixieland [New-Orleans-Style] Jazz-Influenced Modernism)
Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story: Cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wugWGhItaQA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Story_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_(West_Side_Story_song)
Timbre - Theatre Orchestra
Form - Ternary (Verse-Chorus w/ 12-Tone Fugato Bridge)
Style - Neoclassic (Swing/Bebop Jazz Third-Stream Crossover)
John Williams - Star Wars: Main Title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21NDf_b3yJU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Star_Wars
Timbre - Film Orchestra
Form - Ternary (ABA)
Style - Neoromantic
Mark Alburger - Camino Real: Block 10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP8AZZYpjIY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_Real_(play)
(the Tennessee Williams source of the libretto)
Timbre - Voices / Synthetic Orchestra
Form - Binary
Style - Post-Minimal
Fazil Say - Universe Symphony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFvZ5onSX3I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faz%C4%B1l_Say
Timbre - Large Orchestra
Form - Through-Composed
Style - Post-Minimal
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Review Session 2 with the Music Historians,
weird 90th day of spring,
high down 8 to 65
(locally and in Fairfield / Martinez / Danville / San Ramon
[Pleasant Hill, 69]...
lowest apex in a month --
April 15's 61 --
1.1 additional precip,
first measurable since aforementioned date,
28.99 for season beginning last July 1),
various
errands
enroute,
composing
Broke Dance Intermezzi: S, Op. 315
IVs6. Schultz Schottische (The Beagle Has Landed)
Felix Mendelssohn, Vince Guaraldi
[9 pages total]
and editing page 18 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act V, Scene 2...
