March 27 - The Trials of Life
[Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev concerned about many situations, but not re Quiz 10 -- 20th-Century Music II... Take-Home Worksheet, actually... have emailed you all a blank copy (if not, you can always make your own hand-written version): due as returned email pdf / jpg attachment by 6pm, Friday, April 10, to mus21stc@gmail.com or my school email address ]
Happy Shelter-in-Place Spring Break!
C (Lydian) Blues Scale / Four C Chords
Chord Pattern in a Typical 12-Bar Blues
Chord I
Measure 1 2 3 4
IV I
5 6 7 8
V IV I
9 10 11 12
Listening
Sergei Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf
https://www.teachertube.com/video/peter-and-the-wolf-245162
(N.B. this is the Walt Disney version - not quite Prokofiev's original!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Prokofiev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_the_Wolf
George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2_yRwPPIEc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gershwin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhapsody_in_Blue
http://imslp.org/wiki/Rhapsody_in_Blue_(Gershwin,_George)
Francis Poulenc - Double Piano Concerto: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V87wGyfUQiQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Poulenc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerto_for_Two_Pianos_and_Orchestra_(Poulenc)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Concerto_for_2_Pianos,_FP_61_(Poulenc,_Francis)
Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVahuS9hk_s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Copland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Spring
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTqsU7tQW48
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._5_(Shostakovich)
Olivier Messiaen - Turangalila Symphonie: IV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Qh9Tttngk (@18:45)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Messiaen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turangal%C3%AEla-Symphonie
***
Evidently,
there's
always
the
next
Pony Express Trail
jaunt,
now northeast from Silveyville Recycle Ranch Orchard Border Parking
to
the Swale.
Return
in
typical
mostly
beauteous
fashion,
on the 60th day of spring, high again 63 (locally and in Dixon).
Brief socially-distanced greeting,
more news / commentary -- finishing
Music History, Op. 335
X. 20th-Century Music II
1e. Webern / Berg
1f. Berg
with Congress (joining the Senate, and signed today) voting for the The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act...