MARK ALBURGER, 2020: April 10 - Smiling in Adversity

[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_maître

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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