[Camille Saint-Saens plays diabolically before Quiz 8 (Romantic Music II) -- Tuesday, October 15, Pleasant Hill / Wednesday, October 16, San Ramon / Friday, November 1, Late Start...
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)
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Classical and Early Romantic for the Diablo Valley College San Ramon Music Historians,
the power still on at both campuses and various homes but out in many places,
day and night, the 187th of summer, high way down 13 to 79 (locally and in Fairfield / Pleasant Hill)...
Martinez, 76
Danville, 74
San Ramon, 73
Pinole, 71
American Canyon, 70
... beginning composition of
Julius Caesar, Op. 329
Act IV
Scene III. Brutus's tent.
