[Ralph Vaughan Williams's great-uncle Charles Darwin (in parody above), going ape over the music of Quiz 9 (20th-Century I). Take-Home Worksheet (what else can there be, at present?!) -- have emailed you all a blank copy -- due as returned email pdf / jpg attachment by 6pm, Friday, March 27, to mus21stc@gmail.com or my school email address (which I never seem to remember, but goes to same inbox!)
C Whole-Tone Scale
(Please write your own) 12-Tone Row
Any re-ordering of a Chromatic Scale
Two New-Music Ensembles
Pierrot [after Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire (The Moonstruck, or Mad Puppet)]
Flute
Clarinet
Piano
Violin
Cello
Histoire [after Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat (The Story of a Soldier)]
Clarinet
Bassoon
Trumpet
Trombone
Percussion
Violin
Bass
Igor Stravinsky's Birth-Death Dates, Three Stylistic Periods - Types of Music Written
1882-1971
Modernist (Post-Impressionist, Primitive, Russian) - Ballets
Neoclassic - Ballets, Concertos, Operas, Symphonies
Serial - Ballets, Memorial Pieces
Listening
Please describe below personally and thoroughly enough that I know you've listened to each!
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 4: I [1934]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YuUMoqJESU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Vaughan_Williams)
https://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.4_in_F_minor_(Vaughan_Williams%2C_Ralph)
Charles Ives - Symphony No. 4: I [1916 / 1924]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xXv55ARtsM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Ives)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12j1wdKE4zU
Bela Bartok - Piano Concerto No. 1: I [1926]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMwH3011tTk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Béla_Bartók
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No._1_(Bart%C3%B3k)
https://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No.1%2C_Sz.83_(Bart%C3%B3k%2C_B%C3%A9la)
Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring: Part I [1913]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP42C-4zL3w
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring
http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring_(Stravinsky,_Igor)
Anton Webern - Five Pieces for Orchestra [1913]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reqqQ-kBJQ0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Webern
https://www.allmusic.com/composition/pieces-5-for-orchestra-op-10-mc0002362388
http://imslp.org/wiki/5_Pieces_for_Orchestra,_Op.10_(Webern,_Anton)
Alban Berg - Wozzeck: Act I, Scene 3 - March and Lullaby [1922]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdinmlIdnYw (@16:15)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alban_Berg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wozzeck
http://imslp.org/wiki/Wozzeck%2C_Op.7_(Berg%2C_Alban)
***
Signs-of-the-Times Still Life Triptych of newspaper, mask, and glove --
the new normal,
allowing only essential trips,
including
matters
nutritional,
financial,
and
petrolic
(the latter stop yielding
news-o'-the-day).
As
local
outdoor
endeavors
allowable,
walk from
East Rainier,
via Yellowstone,
to Rainier Greenspace --
in consort with
cypresses, olives, oranges, palms, pines, sycamore, plus
distant views of the Vaca Mountains and English Hills...
on the 53rd day of spring,
high up 4 to 66.
In the evening, more news,
including The Analysis of Shields and Brooks going virtual.
The Metropolitn Opera has begun a series of re-broadcasts,
including Giacomo Puccini's Turandot (1924). Also produce
Music History, Op. 335
IX. 20th-Century Music I
1c. Joplin to Vaughan Williams
1d. Vaughan Williams
