MARK ALBURGER, 2020: March 13

Remote learning at least through April 13!

Weekly Youtube video lecture links posted each Monday and Wednesday on this blog!
This will be our "class meeting(s)" for the week, but you can listen / take notes anytime M-F...

Please take original / personal class notes on each session
(as your weekly participation grade!)
and submit by 6pm, Fridays, along with your take-home quizzes
(in all cases either pdfs or well-focussed jpegs), as email attachments to
mus21stc@gmail.com (or my DVC email)

Camille Saint-Saens tries to ward off the coronavirus before take-home Quiz 8 (Romantic Music II)

Blank copy of same has been group emailed to you tonight
please fill out and submit by 6pm, next Friday, March 20

Please describe each featured listening personally and thoroughly enough so that it is clear
that you have listened carefully and thoughtfully (maximum grade A+ for excellent work!)

I will be available each academic day via email and telephone (707) 474-7273

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=8VswsTffasc

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=c8HcgoDLvGc

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=ypClfhEwwCw (@ 25.25)

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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Surreal to be back in class with the DVC Friday Music Historians, after yesterday's announcement, but here we are, one more time, at least for awhile, showing even a brief bit of Music History, Op. 335: VII. Romatnic Music II, 1a. Schubert to Chopin --