December 31 - Hopefully


Quite a year, the epic journey continuing at https://markalburger2021.blogspot.com/


looking forward immediately to wishing it out and greeting the new one with Harriet and Cliff, the latter via Zoom,


having done the East Coast version 3 hours earlier -- augmented by George, Bette,


Sorrel, and Laurie --


Happy New Year!,


spreading around the world!


Linger w/ Cliff, determining that we'll celebrate anew in under 3 hours when the event officially hits us....


Before this,

out for the


daily walk,


3rd on Mix Canyon, now west from


Wreath Gate, past Honey and


Creek Ranch


to


The Notch, and


return (note disposition of bows on wreaths -- denoting for some, including present company, what constitutes "up").


Further exploration into the


Vaca Mountains,


returning via


Pleasants Valley,


Cherry Glen,


Lagoon,


and


I-80,


on the 51st and last day of fall,


high up 4 to 62, with general catch-up and editing the 8th page of the

Oh, You Faithless Scrooge-let!, Op. 344

performance score,


over Alan Hovhaness's


Symphony No. 66 ("To the Appalachian Mountains"), Op. 396 (1985) and


CNN New Year's Eve with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen, before the early celebration; and


Giuseppe Verdi's Ernani (1844, in a Metropolitan Opera / Luciano Pavarotti perforance, 1985),


the recapitulated Cooper et al,


a brief outside adventure with Harriet, and


Stephen Colbert's


year-end retrospective before the later.  An eventful year, and here's to one much better ahead!

December 25 - Elevated Exaltations





Mark Alburger - Oh, You Faithless Scrooge-let!, Op. 344 (December 23, 2020)
https://youtu.be/sAIsZ7XHPck


December 12 - The Opus Project presents Opus 85


THE OPUS PROJECT
presents
OPUS 85 ONLINE
Global Warning
7pm, Saturday, December 12, 2020
as a Zoom Meeting
(email invitation sent c. 1-2 hours prior)

Program

St. Gall Composer (b. c. 820)
     Musica Enchiriadis (c. 850)
         
Nos Qui Vivimus
          Sit Gloria
          Rex Caeli

Orkney Islands Composer (b. c. 1085)   
     Hymn to St. Magnus (c. 1115)

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LvL84oXJlo

              Mark Alburger, Electronics

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)   
     The Well-Tempered Clavier (1722)
          Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 850

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVK461JXv7A

              Dominic Pang, Harpsichord

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)       
     Songs Without Words, Book VII, Op. 85 (1845)
          I. Andante espressivo

          https://youtu.be/rlAlYBEh1dM

               Megan Cullen, Piano

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)       
     Six Songs, Op. 85 (1882)
          VI. In Waldeseinsamkeit (In the Loneliness of the Forest)

          https://youtu.be/rgzbXSxuEeI

                Megan Cullen, Soprano
                Jean-Paul Bjorlin, Piano

Camille Saint-Säens (1835-1921)   
     Les Cloches du Soir, Op. 85 (1889)

          https://youtu.be/LAiON7JqlbA

Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901)       
     Klosterlied (Cloister Song), Op. 85 (1857)

          https://youtu.be/L6Yj3Y3_ZiU

Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904)       
     Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85 (1889)
          VI. Vzpomínání (Reverie) - Andante (B Major)

          https://youtu.be/nSR0Bm5wRb0

               Megan Cullen, Soprano and Piano

          XII. U mohyly (At a Hero's Grave) - Grave, Tempo di marcia (F Minor)

               Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
     Three Songs, Op. 18 (1878)
          III. Automne

          https://youtu.be/LjEHqvUlCvc

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3LGr5bSz04&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0UFShqILMZ2u-atYRza6NPfvryGPJRFobw_n2Rq3aP12BYffTBMIyAiQI

              Lorraine Helvick, Mezzo-Soprano
       
     Three Songs, Op. 85 (1902)
          I. Dans le forêt du Septiembre

          https://youtu.be/h0W0UScnnnU
 
               Megan Cullen, Soprano
               Appcompanist

Julius Röntgen (1855-1932)       
     Schüler-Konzert (School Concerto) No. 1, Op. 85 (1927)
         II. Andantino

          https://youtu.be/HzAzX1bFo0M

              Kat Walsh, Violin
              Megan Cullen, Piano

Christian Sinding (1856-1941)       
     Seven Poems, Op. 85 (1909)
          V. Kälte (Coldness)

          https://youtu.be/XSOL2ec7H8w

              Megan Cullen, Soprano and Piano
                        
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)       
     Eight Songs from "Letzte Blatter" ("Last Songs") (1885)
          III. Die Nacht (The Night)
          IV. Die Georgine (The Dahlia)
          VIII. Allerseelen  (All Souls' Day)

               Jean-Paul Bjorlin, Tenor and Piano

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)       
     Five Piano Pieces, Op. 85 (1917)
          II. Oeillet

          https://youtu.be/miyw7HYq01c

Ignaz Friedman (1882-1948)       
     Six Mazurkas, Op. 85 (1925)
          I. Allegro simplice

          https://youtu.be/SiBo-W_kqW4

               Megan Cullen, Piano

George Crumb (b. 1929)       
     Makrokosmos, Volume I (1972)
          XI. Dream Images

               Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano

Larry Bell (b. 1952)
     Five Poems for Trumpet and Piano, Op. 85
          based on the song cycle Dream within a Dream, Op. 79 (2006)
          IV. There came a wind like a bugle

          https://www.poemofquotes.com/emilydickinson/therecameawind.php

               Michael Cox, Trumpet

Mark Alburger (b. 1957)       
     The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Op. 85 (2000)
          II. The People That Walked in Darkness

               Mark Alburger, Voice and Electronics

Hussein Al-Nasrawi (b. 1992)       
     Improvisation on "The Prayer" (2020)

          http://viewsync.net/watch?v=-ovRQu28YYs&t=0&v=O0Yu-xS_RFU&t=0&mode=solo

               Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano

December 10 - Whoa!

[Alarming possibilities for Exam, Part II... Take-home, due -- as Part I, and both of the Review Lecture Notes (from Week 15, if you have not turned in already) -- 6pm, Friday, December 11, to mus21stc@gmail.com]... Also hope you can join us for the final Zoom Get-Together that evening + the Opus 85 concert the next day (7pm, Saturday, December 12)!


Write Any Scale (Other than a Heptatonic [7-Note] Major or Minor) and Identify

Write Four Chords (But Not on C) and Identify

Write the Instrumentation of any Large World-Music Ensemble and Identify

Write the Instrumentation of any Small World-Music Ensemble and Identify

 


Again, please describe aspects of the below 6 selections -- including

Rhythm
Pitch
Dynamics
Timbre / Tone-Color (Instruments / Voices)
Texture
Harmony
Form
Context


Listening


[Music c. 1900-1920]

Indonesia (Bali) - Gamelan Gong Kebyar
(first performance in the style, 1915) (Eastern Asia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldPMifPbngc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Indonesia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Bali

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamelan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamelan_gong_kebyar


[Music c. 1920-1940]

France (Darius Milhaud, 1892-1974) -
La Creation du Monde (The Creation of the World), Op. 81 (1923): Fugato
(Northern Europe, w/ Western Africa and Eastern America influences)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgqXq0es4wc (@ 5:00)
(Bernstein -- with beard! -- conducting)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWpAQ6AWMDA
(With Score!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_stream

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Milhaud

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_cr%C3%A9ation_du_monde


[Music c. 1940-1960]

Argentina (Astor Piazzolla, 1921-1992) -
Tangazo, 1970 (Southern America)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTLeuYs69WI
(With Score!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Argentina


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tango

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuevo_tango

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astor_Piazzolla


https://www.laphil.com/musicdb/pieces/711/tangazo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandoneon



[Music c. 1960-1980]

Ghana (b. c. 1945) - 
Postal Works Cancelling Stamps at the University (1975) (Western Africa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXe0F5TRIhA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Ghana

https://parkarts.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/115813357/WorldsOfMusic.pdf
(Pages 67-70)


[Music c. 1980-2000]

California (Mark Alburger, b. 1957) -
Camino Real
, Op. 110 (2003): Block 10
(Western America, w/ Western Europe influence)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP8AZZYpjIY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Alburger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_Real_(play)
(the Tennessee Williams source of the libretto)

http://markalburgerworks.blogspot.com/2003/02/camino-real-op-10.html



[Music c. 2000-2020]

Turkey (Fazil Say, b. 1970) - Universe Symphony, Op. 43 (2012):
I. Expansion of the Universe (Western Asia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFvZ5onSX3I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Turkey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faz%C4%B1l_Say

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._3_%22Universe%22


***


Below, some student suggestions for future repertory!

Ola Gjeilo - The Rose, Northern Lights

Daniel Elder - Shadows Will Fall, Tempest Rhapsody

Elaine Hagenberg - Music of Stillness, As The Rain Hides The Stars

Eric Whitacre - Sleep, Lux Aurumque

Lui Tieshan - Dance of the Yao People
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmFwAPbJxxs&t=207s

Joe Hisaishi
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5QehSzbhnmGjljdcq2ipPF?si=tna54F0OQIaMZHwC4Xbwsg


Video Game Playlists

Yakuza series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy_kAjr0Ero&list=PLfp29KYn6RxqSmzl1R3ub8ym9TJZaUWcf

Pheonix Wright series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87R_YCPiGUg

Pheonix Wright series, jazz format
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXEeyajJvwY

Yakuza Kiwanni 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8WGb2gs-F8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erKkWGfEW9U&list=PLWXWbr9ex3iVqtmHSJ0OIeEnD2hOZnp2Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwTebN-QCq8&list=PLvXMARe51eeakpkIZczyy3RsWlOQx3M4R

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaWde85wVB4&list=PLvXMARe51eeamUB5sRCQ9K_hcdGl403gA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASn9dDut5H0&list=PLv3mgsCTGnNDm9fGT3KHEwSxOf56s669g


December 9 - Towards the Future


[Igor Stravinsky, not the least concerned about Exam, Part II... Take-home, due -- as Part I, and both of the Review Lecture Notes (from Week 15, if you have not turned in already) -- 6pm, Friday, December 11, to mus21stc@gmail.com]... Also hope you can join us for the final Zoom Get-Together that evening + the Opus 85 concert the next day (7pm, Saturday, December 12)!


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


Again, please describe at least 5 aspects of the below selections -- including

Timbre / Tone-Color (Instruments / Voices)
Form
Style


Listening


Igor Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms: I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUSfrgPQjRM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_of_Psalms


Darius Milhaud - La Creation du Monde (The Creation of the World): Fugato

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgqXq0es4wc (@ 5:00)
(Bernstein -- with beard! -- conducting)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Milhaud

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_cr%C3%A9ation_du_monde


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)


John Williams - Star Wars: Main Title

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTiRrlgbYIM
(Composer conducting!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Star_Wars


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)


Fazil Say - Universe Symphony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFvZ5onSX3I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faz%C4%B1l_Say

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._3_%22Universe%22


***


Below, some student suggestions for future repertory!

Ola Gjeilo - The Rose, Northern Lights

Daniel Elder - Shadows Will Fall, Tempest Rhapsody

Elaine Hagenberg - Music of Stillness, As The Rain Hides The Stars

Eric Whitacre - Sleep, Lux Aurumque

Lui Tieshan - Dance of the Yao People
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmFwAPbJxxs&t=207s

Joe Hisaishi
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5QehSzbhnmGjljdcq2ipPF?si=tna54F0OQIaMZHwC4Xbwsg


Video Game Playlists

Yakuza series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy_kAjr0Ero&list=PLfp29KYn6RxqSmzl1R3ub8ym9TJZaUWcf

Pheonix Wright series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87R_YCPiGUg

Pheonix Wright series, jazz format
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXEeyajJvwY

Yakuza Kiwanni 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8WGb2gs-F8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erKkWGfEW9U&list=PLWXWbr9ex3iVqtmHSJ0OIeEnD2hOZnp2Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwTebN-QCq8&list=PLvXMARe51eeakpkIZczyy3RsWlOQx3M4R

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaWde85wVB4&list=PLvXMARe51eeamUB5sRCQ9K_hcdGl403gA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASn9dDut5H0&list=PLv3mgsCTGnNDm9fGT3KHEwSxOf56s669g

December 8 - Bang on a Drum

[Drumming up some business for Exam, Part I -- Take home!  Due 6pm, Friday, December 11, as attached pdf / jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com (or school email)]


Write Any Major Scale -- Except C -- with Solfege

Write Any Minor Scale -- Except A -- with Solfege


List Six Periods of Aesthetic History, before the 20th Century, with Dates

[Including Ancient, c. 3500 BCE - 400 CE]



Listening

For each description, please include information on...

Rhythm
Pitch
Dynamics
Timbre (Instruments / Voices)
Texture
Harmony
Form
Context


[Music c. 3500 BCE - 400 CE]

Greece (Athenaeus [Athenaios Athenaiou], b. c. 158 BCE) -
First Delphic Hymn, c. 128 BCE (Southern Europe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnkVaPKlf_U

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Greece

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenaeus_(musician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_Hymns
(Interesting information, differing score)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/01/anonymous-athenian-b-c-168-bc.html
(Score which basically corresponds to performance --
reposted from Historical Anthology of Music, Harvard)


[Music c. 400-1400]

India (Hindustani music, dating back to c. 1100,
improvised by Ali Akbar Khan, 1922-2009) -
Raga Sind Bhairavi (Southern Asia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKVhSNY2Lkc
(intro by Yehudi Menuhin, reverb)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXIWAWbMFNI&list=RDV7NisVEE0oM&index=17

(Better recording of above, w/o intro)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_classical_music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Akbar_Khan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatur_Lal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindhu_Bhairavi_(raga)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarod

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanpura

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabla


[Music c. 1400-1600]

Russia - Wedding Song "Na Solnechnom Vskhode"
("At Dawn, At the Warming") (Eastern Europe)
https://youtu.be/GgO1-cuO8ls

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Russia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_traditional_music


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_wedding_traditions


[Music c. 1600-1750]

Nigeria (Yoruba) - Talking Drum (Western Africa)
https://youtu.be/tcK47jChxjs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Nigeria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_drum


[Music c. 1750-1850]

Austria (Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827) -
Symphony No. 9 ("Choral")
, Op. 125 (1824): IV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFxzqYHA4_E (@ 37:56)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Austria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Beethoven)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_music_(style)


[Music c. 1850-1900]

Washington, DC (John Philip Sousa, 1854-1932) -
The Stars and Stripes Forever (1896) (Eastern America)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsgcwZuQf6E
(reasonably brisk tempo, orchestra)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRQWP-TL4gk
(slower, band, with score)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_patriotic_music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_(music)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Philip_Sousa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stars_and_Stripes_Forever


December 7 - Circle of Time


[Josquin des Pres, intent on Exam, Part I -- Take home!  Due 6pm, Friday, December 11, as attached pdf / jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com (or school email)]


Write Any Major Scale -- Except C -- with Solfege

Write Any Minor Scale -- Except A -- with Solfege



List Six Periods of Aesthetic History, before the 20th Century, with Dates

[Including Ancient, 3500 BC (BCE) - AD 400 (CE)]



Listening

For each description, please include information on...

Timbre (Instruments / Voices)
Form (Structure)
Stylistic Period (Historical Era)

+

at least two other aspects of music from any of below...

Rhythm (Note Values, Tempo, Time Signature[s])
Pitch (Mode / Scale, Motive, Phrase, Melody)
Dynamics
Texture
Harmony
Context (Biography, History, Text Setting / Words)


Greece - First Delphic Hymn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnkVaPKlf_U

http://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/1197218

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/01/anonymous-athenian-b-c-168-bc.html


Italy - Trotto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXxaCcVzsEU&feature=youtu.be (@ 15:54)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/composers-of-iialian-dances-b-c-1270.html


https://www.allmusic.com/composition/trotto-dance-for-instrumental-ensemble-mc0002367874
(Despite Blue Gene Tyranny's fine write up - the composition is in G Dorian)


Josquin des Pres - Scaramella

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu7-USz4F0k

https://www.allmusic.com/composition/scaramella-va-alla-guerra-song-for-4-parts-mc0002364210

http://imslp.org/wiki/Scaramella_(Josquin_Desprez)


J.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 1: I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kI1Ab6_Xfk
(with notation)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Concertos

http://imslp.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Concerto_No.1_in_F_major,_BWV_1046_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian)


Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"): IV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFxzqYHA4_E (@ 37:56)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Beethoven)

http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.9,_Op.125_(Beethoven,_Ludwig_van)


Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 4: III

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QLuYj2jxoc [23:33 - 29:25]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Brahms)

http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.4,_Op.98_(Brahms,_Johannes)