[Igor Stravinsky, not the least concerned about Exam, Part II -- Tuesday, December 10, Pleasant Hill / Wednesday, December 11, San Ramon / Friday, Decemeber 13, Late Start]
Write Any Scale (Other than a Major or Minor) and Identify
Write Four Chords (But Not on C) and Identify
Write the Instruments of a Large Orchestra, in Score Order
Listening
Igor Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUSfrgPQjRM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_of_Psalms
Timbre - Orchestra -[5 Flutes, 5 Oboes, 4 Bassoons, 4 Trumpets, 4 Horns, 3 Trombones, Tuba,
2 Harps, 2 Pianos, Percussion, Cellos, Basses]
Form - Through-Composed (Free Ternary ABA with Introduction)
Style - Neoclassic
Darius Milhaud - La Creation du Monde (The Creation of the World): Fugato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgqXq0es4wc (@ 5:00)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Milhaud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_cr%C3%A9ation_du_monde
Timbre - Chamber Orchestra [Flute, Oboe, 2 Clarinets, Alto Saxophone, Bassoon, 2 Trumpets, Horn, Trombone, Piano, 2 Percussion, 2 Violins, Cello, Bass]
Form - Fugato (Short Fugue)
Style - Neoclassic (Dixieland [New-Orleans-Style] Jazz-Influenced Modernism)
Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story: Cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wugWGhItaQA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Story_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_(West_Side_Story_song)
Timbre - Theatre Orchestra
Form - Ternary (Verse-Chorus w/ 12-Tone Fugato Bridge)
Style - Neoclassic (Swing/Bebop Jazz Third-Stream Crossover)
John Williams - Star Wars: Main Title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21NDf_b3yJU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Star_Wars
Timbre - Film Orchestra
Form - Ternary (ABA)
Style - Neoromantic
Mark Alburger - Camino Real: Block 10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP8AZZYpjIY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_Real_(play)
(the Tennessee Williams source of the libretto)
Timbre - Voices / Synthetic Orchestra
Form - Binary
Style - Post-Minimal
Fazil Say - Universe Symphony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFvZ5onSX3I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faz%C4%B1l_Say
Timbre - Large Orchestra
Form - Through-Composed
Style - Post-Minimal
***
Rendezvous with the
Diablo Valley College San Ramon Music Historians for
Review Week,
on
the
10th
day
of fall,
high down 1 to 52 (San Ramon, 57; another 1.26 of wet stuff -- 6.12 total this 2019-2020 rainfall season).
The Clark guy shows up in the afternoon, while
beginning composition re
No Exit, Op. 330
V. Mister Garcin!
