May 1 - Oh, the Humanity!


[Michael Cooke, wondering if he will be featured on Quiz 14 (21st-Century Music) -- worksheet due 6pm, Friday, May 8 -- attached pdfs / jpgs to mus21stc@gmail.com or my school email -- thanks!]


Write Four Bars of Music (make it interesting and/or beautiful and/or fun and/or dangerous)


Write a Short Essay on a Favorite Piece of Music (composer/performer and name of piece)

What makes it great?  Use our typical vocabulary (paragraph of five or more sentences)



Listening


Michael Cooke - Music for Humans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1SSWqEOMwY

http://www.michaelkcooke.com/bio.html


Thomas Ades - Totentanz (Death Dance)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G8ySgSayK8
(@4:15 - interview w/ composer re work, previous to this...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Adès

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totentanz_(Adès)


Mason Bates - The B-Sides: V. Warehouse Medicine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZ1HhvZPlg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Bates

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_B-Sides_(composition)


Steven Price - Gravity: Debris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFJdAAXaMRU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Price_(composer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity:_Original_Motion_Picture_Soundtrack


Mehdi Hosseini - The Baluch: I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7IvipUYrm8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Hosseini

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baluch


Lady Gaga - Poker Face

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bESGLojNYSo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker_Face_(Lady_Gaga_song)

***


Begin



Music History
, Op. 335
    XV.  Review


with


        1a.  Athenaeus


                     (Athenaios Athenaiou) -


                        First


                         Delphic 


                           Hymn


on either side of


reaching pretty much the actual Pony Express Trail by walking from


Sievers Blue Pump Parking


to


Guardrail Curve.


Back towards the car,


and driving on via


Pedrick,


and into Yolo on 98 and


Hutchison,


looping


back into


Solano on


I-80 --


this hereby the


43rd day of summer,


high reverse again 1 to


82,


locally and in Dixon


(ABA 82-83-82 past 3 days).


Stephen Colbert,


Chuck Schumer, and


Metropolitan Opera on


the bill of fare, as well as update re

Book of Dreams, Op. 277 (2018)
     2020
          April 30 - May 1
               5am Park Up Long Narrow Passageway to Patronize Restaurant,
                        Which Is Closed, Too Difficult to Back Down, Flip Around,
                        But Get Behind a Fired-Up Furnace and
                         Too Hot / Crowded to Re-Negotiate That Way, Owner-Friend of House Comes Back,
                         Professional Dog Walker, With Huge Number +
                         Baby Whom He Neglects, We Take a Chimp and Witch
                         (Old Friendly Mentally Handicapped Woman),
                         Proceed Past Snarling Dog Wolf, Into Ante-Chamber,
                         Witch Happy to Play w/ Chimp While We Figure
                          Out How to Proceed, Wake Up…. Within Large Garage in Middle of Above,
                          Back and Front Doors, Front w/ a Pit Barrier and Library Caged Study Area,
                          Neither Prospect Looks Reasonable….
                  11am SFCCO Rehearsal in Large Space, We've Forgotten to Rehearse a Srring Quartet,
                          Ariolla Wants to Cut It, I Decide We Can All Stay After This Last Rehearsal
                            (It Is Daytime) to Rehearse It, Clarinetist Jonathan Is Playing Viola,
                            I Take Laptop and Put It in Folding Space Of Upright Piano  Lid,
                            Driving Through a Hilly (!) Illionois Town, Check on Google Maps,
                            Place Has Become a Marijuana Dispensary Mecca and Gone Downhill,
                           Cops Everywhere and Od People in One-Way
                           Boulevard Main Drag Looking for a Fix...