[John Cage, in Zen complacency about not being featured on Quiz 11 (20th-Century Music III) -- take-home worksheet, due back as an attached pdf or jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com (or my school email), by 6pm, Friday, April 17]
Write your own 4-Note Passage (Prime), followed by its Retrograde (Backwards),
Inversion (Upside-Down), and Retrograd-Inversion (Backwards Upside-Down)
Example:
Prime: DEAG
Retrograde: GADE (the above backwards)
Inversion: DCGA (start with first note of Prime,
inverting intervals... D to E is a 2nd up, in Prime
so, D to C is a 2nd down, in Inversion, etc.
Retrograde-Inversion: AGCD (backwards of the Inversion)
Instrumentation of Three Styles of Jazz (Oldest to Most Recent - c. 1920 - 1950)
Dixieland Swing Bebop
(New-Orleans Style) (Big Band) (Bop)
[Horns] [1-2] Clarinet(s) [4-5] Saxophones Saxophone
[1-2] Trumpet(s) [4-5] Trumpets Trumpet
Trombone [4-5] Trombones Trombone
Rhythm Banjo Guitar Guitar
Piano Piano Piano
Bass [Tuba] Bass Bass
Drums Drums Drums
Listening
Samuel Barber - Second Essay for Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34NThn0cZE8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Barber
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Essay_for_Orchestra_(Barber)
Alan Hovhaness - And God Created Great Whales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgESUPnCQ5o
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Hovhaness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_God_Created_Great_Whales
Benjamin Britten - War Requiem: II. Dies Irae
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLSo5tPOlyQ (@ 9:30)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Britten
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Requiem
Leonard Bernstein - Chichester Psalms: II. Psalm 23 / 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1axCTkIfP9Q (@ 3:40)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Bernstein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichester_Psalms
Pierre Boulez - Le Marteau sans Maitre (The Masterless Hammer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fmr08vTFDs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Boulez
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Marteau_sans_maƮtre
George Crumb - Black Angels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etHtCVeU4-I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Crumb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Angels_(Crumb)
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Music History, Op. 335
XII. 20th-Century Music IV
2e. Reich to Glass
2f. Glass
More video work
and,
after PBS Newhour Pandemic (+ Shields and Brooks),
additional
adventure
(after
circuitous
run-around),
walking
Pony Express 'proximation,
south from Pitt School East Orchard Border Parking
to
Two Blue-White Pipes before the distant Sierra and
Vaca Mountains.
Driving return on the --
wow! -- 27th day of summer,
high up 9 to 71 (Dixon besting at 72),
with errands and the end of day's videos...