[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)
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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...