[Philip Glass's Satyagraha Gandhi overcomes all obstacles, as hopefully we will in Quiz 14 (Analysis), given sometime after 7:55am, Thursday, December 6, Diablo Valley College Music Theory, Pleasant Hill, CA]
More Added (Non-Chord / Non-Harmonic / Embellishing) Tones
Anticipation - A Dissonant Melodic Note which will be a Consonant Tone in the following Chord
Wild Tone - A Dissonant Melodic Note that cannot be explained by any traditional usage
Suspended Chords
Sus 4 = "Root 4th 5th" (the fourth often resolves downward to the 3rd)
(use of capital or small Roman numeral determined by what the 3rd would be, given the key)
Major Ninth Chord
Major 7th Chord + M9 (interval, measured from Root)
Keyboard-Solfege / Chord Performance
Sting (b. 1951) - King of Pain (1983): Chorus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFN5DveQH0o
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_(musician)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Pain
[N.B. Upper 2 Staves above in Treble Clef; Lower in Bass
The cancelled Key Sig simply erases D Major of the preceeding example]
5 Seventh Chords in 3 Keys
Major 7th (M7) MT + M7 interval
Dominant 7th (7) MT + m7 interval
Minor 7th (m7) mT + m7
Half-Diminished 7th (ho7) dT + m7
Diminished 7th (o7) dT + d7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_chord
Other Music Referenced in Quiz 14
Philip Glass
Satyagraha (1980): Act I, Scene 1 "On the Kuru Field of Justice"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU1hyzl8UJ4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyagraha_(opera)
Akhnaten (1983): Act I, Scene 2 "Akhnaten and Nefertiti"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7swQfN3RAo (@ 2:37)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhnaten_(opera)
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SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director
Under Deconstruction
Rehearsal III
7pm, Thursday, May 2, 2019
St. Teresa of Avila Church, 1490 19th Street, San Francisco, CA
Mark Alburger and John Kendall Bailey, conducting
7:00 Michael Cooke
Symphony No. 4 ("Deconstructing Beethoven") (2019) (13')
2111 1100 3Perc 11111 (15)
III. Tempo di Menuetto
I. Allegro con brio
7:40 Mark Alburger
Broke Dance Suite, Op. 290 (2018) (5')
1121 1100 Pf 3Perc 11111 (16)
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)
7:55 Book of Revelation, Op. 296 (2019) (5')
1121 1100 Pf 3Perc 11111 (16)
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
8:10 Broke Dance Intermezzi: B, Op. 298 (2019) (10')
1121 1100 Pf 3Perc 11111 (16)
IVb8. Bergamasque Mask (Dandy)
IVb9. Ice Bergerette (In the Brush)
IVb10. CrumBolero (Militaire)
IVb11. Bonne Bon… (Anatomic Memorial)
IVb11. Bechtel Bouree (Precipitous)
IVb12. Brando Bransle (Brawl)
IVb13 …de Bourgogne (Red)
IVb14 …de Champagne (Mummers)
8:25 Break
8:40 John Beeman
Ishi
2111 1100 2V 3Perc 11111 (17)
Act I: Scene 9 (2019)
9:20 Davide Verotta
Incandescent (2019)
0000 0000 5Perc 11111 (10)
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Third fine rehearsal of the Under Deconstruction program re San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra,
on the
33rd day of
summer,
high up 2 to 82
(locally and in Pleasant Hill -- Berkeley, 67 / San Francico, 69)...
first meeting with the Theoreticians for Board Harmony on Sting's King of Pain followed by
Quiz 13 (musical examples derived from works of John Williams, Philip Glass, and Roger Waters)...
then a
swing over to
UC Berkeley Music Library for research re The Opus Project presents Opus 77-78 (8pm, May 25, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA),
and
off
to
another
incredible night's practice. Also compose
Broke Dance Intermezzi: R, Op. 314
IVr2. Abrahamic Ragtime (Escapist)
Scott Joplin, Arthur Marshall, Igor Stravinsky, Mark Alburger
[21 pages]
and edit page 5 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act V, Scene 2...
