July 23 - Dawn of a New Era


[Terry Riley, looking forward to his music being featured on Quiz 12 (20th-Century Music IV), Thursday, July 25, Diablo Valley College, CA]


Two Classic-Rock Progressions


Three Typical Rock Bands

Piano Band

Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums

Guitar Band
Lead Guitar
Rhythm Guitar
Bass
Drums

Power Trio
Guitar
Bass
Drums


Three Types of Jazz After Bebop

Cool
Free
Fusion



Listening


Terry Riley - In C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbTn79x-mrI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Riley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecd8UJ-3wGU (practice version of score!)


Steve Reich - Octet (Eight Lines)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Np9yApXD94 (with score!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Reich

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Lines


Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi: Vessels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc1vu4sVYdA (from the film!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Glass

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi


John Lennon - A Day in the Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNsCeOV4GM (video from filming of the orchestral recording!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Day_in_the_Life


Roger Waters - Shine On You Crazy Diamond: 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, which will be projected in class)


Mark Alburger - Camino Real: Block 9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2dJSGkCrxA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Alburger

http://markalburgerworks.blogspot.com/2003/02/camino-real-op-10.html


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Double sound-and-light once more for the Music Historians of San Ramon and


Pleasant Hill, with Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story (1957): Cool (the film version from 1961), plus many other wild works,


on the 108th day of summer, high up 1 to exactly 100 (tying with June 18 and July 13 as the 34rd hottest temperature of the year)

Fairfield / Pleasant Hill, 95
Martinez, 88
San Ramon, 84


Back out on the Pony Express route in the late afternoon, again on Cherry Glen from Cliff Oak Parking now west to Ridge Canyon -- and return to complete The Gospel According to St. John, Op. 327: III. Nicodemus (As Moses Lifted Up the Serpent / God So Loved the World)... 9 pages total...