[John Cage, in Zen complacency about not being featured on Quiz 11 (20th-Century Music III) -- Tuesday, November 5, Pleasant Hill; Wednesday, November 6, San Ramon; Friday, November 22, Late Start... open notes!]
Write your own 4-Note Passage (Prime), followed by its Retrograde (Backwards),
Inversion (Upside-Down), and Retrograd-Inversion (Backwards Upside-Down)
Example:
Prime: DEAG
Retrograde: GADE (the above backwards)
Inversion: DCGA (start with first note of Prime,
inverting intervals... D to E is a 2nd up, in Prime
so, D to C is a 2nd down, in Inversion, etc.
Retrograde-Inversion: AGCD (backwards of the Inversion)
Instrumentation of Three Styles of Jazz (Oldest to Most Recent - c. 1920 - 1950)
Dixieland Swing Bebop
(New-Orleans Style) (Big Band) (Bop)
[Horns] [1-2] Clarinet(s) [4-5] Saxophones Saxophone
[1-2] Trumpet(s) [4-5] Trumpets Trumpet
Trombone [4-5] Trombones Trombone
Rhythm Banjo Guitar Guitar
Piano Piano Piano
Bass [Tuba] Bass Bass
Drums Drums Drums
Listening
Samuel Barber - Second Essay for Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34NThn0cZE8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Barber
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Essay_for_Orchestra_(Barber)
Alan Hovhaness - And God Created Great Whales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1KvNY8D8YY (@1.29)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Hovhaness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_God_Created_Great_Whales
Benjamin Britten - War Requiem: II. Dies Irae
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLSo5tPOlyQ (@ 9:30)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Britten
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Requiem
Leonard Bernstein - Chichester Psalms: II. Psalm 23 / 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1axCTkIfP9Q (@ 3:40)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Bernstein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichester_Psalms
Pierre Boulez - Le Marteau sans Maitre (The Masterless Hammer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fmr08vTFDs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Boulez
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Marteau_sans_maître
George Crumb - Black Angels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etHtCVeU4-I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Crumb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Angels_(Crumb)
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20th-Century Music II with the
DVCSR Historians,
on the 208th day of summer,
high down a point to 70 (ABA of 70 / 73-71 / 70) --
Fairfield, 72
Martinez / Pleasant Hill, 69
Danville, 67
San Ramon, 63
Pinole, 72
American Canyon, 71
still windy, but, by now, worse in Southern California, with the Getty Fire (which began yesterday), et. al.
Begin
No Exit, Op. 330 (after Jean-Paul Sartre's 1944 play)
III. Did You Call, Sir?
