[Ralph Vaughan Williams's great-uncle Charles Darwin (in parody above), keen on the music of Quiz 9 (20th-Century I), Tuesday, July 16, Diablo Valley College, CA]
C Whole-Tone Scale
(Please write your own) 12-Tone Row
Any re-ordering of a Chromatic Scale
Two New-Music Ensembles
Pierrot [after Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire (The Moonstruck, or Mad Puppet)]
Flute
Clarinet
Piano
Violin
Cello
Histoire [after Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat (The Story of a Soldier)]
Clarinet
Bassoon
Trumpet
Trombone
Percussion
Violin
Bass
Igor Stravinsky's Birth-Death Dates, Three Stylistic Periods - Types of Music Written
1882-1971
Modernist (Post-Impressionist, Primitive, Russian) - Ballets
Neoclassic - Ballets, Concertos, Operas, Symphonies
Serial - Ballets, Memorial Pieces
Listening
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 4: I [1934]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YuUMoqJESU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Vaughan_Williams)
https://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.4_in_F_minor_(Vaughan_Williams%2C_Ralph)
Charles Ives - Symphony No. 4: I [1916 / 1924]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xXv55ARtsM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Ives)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12j1wdKE4zU
Bela Bartok - Piano Concerto No. 1: I [1926]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMwH3011tTk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Béla_Bartók
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No._1_(Bart%C3%B3k)
https://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No.1%2C_Sz.83_(Bart%C3%B3k%2C_B%C3%A9la)
Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring: Part I [1913]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP42C-4zL3w
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring
http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring_(Stravinsky,_Igor)
Anton Webern - Five Pieces for Orchestra [1913]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reqqQ-kBJQ0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Webern
https://www.allmusic.com/composition/pieces-5-for-orchestra-op-10-mc0002362388
http://imslp.org/wiki/5_Pieces_for_Orchestra,_Op.10_(Webern,_Anton)
Alban Berg - Wozzeck: Act I, Scene 3 - March and Lullaby [1922]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdinmlIdnYw (@16:15)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alban_Berg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wozzeck
http://imslp.org/wiki/Wozzeck%2C_Op.7_(Berg%2C_Alban)
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Giacomo Puccini's Turandot and other Late-19th / Early 20th-Century gems for the San Ramon /
Pleasant Hill Music Historians,
followed by Quiz 8,
on
the
96th
day
of
summer,
high
up
3 to 95
San Ramon,
86
Pleasant Hill, 90
Martinez,
75
Fairfield,
92 --
Errands,
wandering
about
to
walk southwest on the Pony Express analog from Alamo Creek Bridge
to
the
northeast
entrance of Lagoon Valley Park.
After
return,
across town to compose
Fifteen Inventions ("Technological"), Op. 326
Machinations for Orchestra
XI. Internal Combustion Engine
