[Igor Stravinsky, not the least concerned about Exam, Part II... Take-home, due -- as Part I, and both of the Review Lecture (the second officially posted this coming Monday) Notes -- 6pm, Friday, May 22, to (as usual) mus21stc@gmail.com, or my school email...
Write Any Scale (Other than a Major or Minor) and Identify
Write Four Chords (But Not on C) and Identify
Write the Instruments of a Large Orchestra, in Score Order
Again, please describe at least 5 aspects of the below selections -- including
Timbre / Tone-Color (Instruments / Voices)
Form
Style
Listening
Igor Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUSfrgPQjRM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_of_Psalms
Darius Milhaud - La Creation du Monde (The Creation of the World): Fugato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgqXq0es4wc (@ 5:00)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Milhaud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_cr%C3%A9ation_du_monde
Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story: Cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wugWGhItaQA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Story_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_(West_Side_Story_song)
John Williams - Star Wars: Main Title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21NDf_b3yJU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Star_Wars
Mark Alburger - Camino Real: Block 10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP8AZZYpjIY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_Real_(play)
(the Tennessee Williams source of the libretto)
Fazil Say - Universe Symphony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFvZ5onSX3I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faz%C4%B1l_Say
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._3_%22Universe%22
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Having started this Music History video project with Week 8 of the course, back on March 12 at the announcement of the Pandemic closure, have now finished through the end of the course's content -- Week 15 -- Hallelujah! -- with
Music History, Op. 335
XV. Review
2e. Mark Alburger - Camino Real: Block 10
and
Music History, Op. 335
XV. Review
2f. Fazil Say - Symphony No. 3 ("Universe")
the latter including information on the
composer's
Turkish heritage,
compositional
career,
and
piece
in
question:
performance
including
bass
flute and
theremin,
plus
matters
of
extra-
musicological/terrestrial
inspiration.
Inspired
indeed,
out for the just-about-daily
Pony Express near-equivalent,
now south from
Pedrick Second East Orchard Border Parking,
back to
Crop Division.
Back
to
the
car --
55th day of summer,
high zooming up 10 to
80
(Dixon, 79).
Home to help
Megan with
pictures,
and to begin planning the array of videos, beyond the intro, for the beginning of the course, through Week 7...
