[Camille Saint-Saens plays diabolically before Quiz 8 (Romantic Music II), Thursday, July 11, Diablo Valley College, CA]
C Chromatic Scale (Up in Sharps - C, C#, etc / Down in Flats C, B, Bb...)
[N.B. we say "C-Sharp" but write the Sharp in front of note in notation - same situation w/ Flats...
No E# B# on way up, no Cb or Fb on way down
--these are cases of two white notes w/o intervening black]
Instruments in a Large Orchestra
Woodwinds
[4] Flutes
[4] Oboes
[4] Clarinets
[4] Bassoons
Brass
[4] Trumpets
[8] Horns
[3] Trombones
[1] Tuba
Percussion
Harp
Piano
Mallets
Battery
Timpani
Strings
[17] Violin I
[15] Violin II
[13] Viola
[11] Cello
[9] Bass
Listening
Georges Bizet - Carmen: Act I - Habanera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPEGo_Tkl1c
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Bizet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen
http://imslp.org/wiki/Carmen_(Bizet,_Georges)
Peter Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 ("Pathetique"): I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDqCIcsUtPI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._6_(Tchaikovsky)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.6,_Op.74_(Tchaikovsky,_Pyotr)
Giacomo Puccini - La Boheme: Act II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW7py67QqZU (@ 39:00)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Puccini
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_bohème
http://imslp.org/wiki/La_Bohème_(Puccini,_Giacomo)
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1: III
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEPERXpOqiU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._1_(Mahler)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.1_(Mahler%2C_Gustav)
Claude Debussy - Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43rzoDrD4e0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Debussy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A9lude_%C3%A0_l%27apr%C3%A8s-midi_d%27un_faune
http://imslp.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A9lude_%C3%A0_l%27apr%C3%A8s-midi_d%27un_faune_(Debussy%2C_Claude)
Erik Satie - Three Gymnopedies: Gymnopedie No. 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW33wN2EufY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Satie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnopédies
http://imslp.org/wiki/3_Gymnopédies_(Satie%2C_Erik)
***
Late Classical / Early Romantic for the San Ramon /
Pleasant Hill Music Historians,
on
the
94th
day
of
summer,
high
back up
4 to 86
(ABA 86-82-86 last 3 days)
San Ramon,
73
Pleasant Hill, 83
Fairfield,
84
Return
to the
closest-as-one-can-be-to-the Pony Express Route on
Butcher from
Pena Adobe Dental
northwest
to the
bend southwest.
Reverse course
then
circuitously thereafter to compose
Fifteen Inventions ("Technological"), Op. 326
Machinations for Orchestra
IX. Electricity
