[Ralph Vaughan Williams's great-uncle Charles Darwin (in parody above), going ape over the music of Quiz 9 (20th-Century I), Tuesday, October 22, Pleasant Hill / Wednesday, October 23, San Ramon / Friday, November 8, Late Start]
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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Quiz 8 (Romantic II) for the Diablo Valley College San Ramon Music Historians,
on a day of reflection re the 4.5 Pleasant Hill Earthquake
(October 14),
Crockett Fuel Storage Fire (October 15),
and the lamentable demise of former SF Chronicle Music Critic Marilyn Tucker (October 25, 1929 - August 11, 2019) --
on the 194th day of summer,
high down 5 to 76
Fairfield, 77
Martinez,
Pleasant Hill,
Danville,
San Ramon,
Pinole,
American Canyon,
finishing composition re
Julius Caesar, Op. 329
Act V
Scene III. Another part of the field.
[9 pages total]
