July 1 - Intense


Welcome to July!  Ah, yes, for the next video playlist (6 linked c. 15-minute short original movies) presentation on YouTube...

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (1. Stravinsky to Berg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Eesd9I2lY&list=PLtV-SdP8TZccIfXPzbcsgLY17VLdXodI2

Particulars as follows...

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (1a. Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky
https://youtu.be/15Eesd9I2lY

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (1b. Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky
https://youtu.be/u2gCnEkiXW0

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (1c. Stravinsky to Varese)
Igor Stravinsky, Josef Matthias Hauer, Edgar Varese
https://youtu.be/J2s4G3vwYVE
(N.B. Stravinsky - The Flood - Blocked)

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (1d. Varese / Webern)
Edgar Varese, Anton Webern
https://youtu.be/_CGBiDG9QNY

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (1e. Webern / Berg)
Anton Webern, Alban Berg
https://youtu.be/6qx0im5yD3Q

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (1f. Berg)
Alban Berg
https://youtu.be/5yDZjKVE4sI

Same deal re lecture notes... 300-500 words, should be c. a page, feel free to just listen and watch while jotting down your thoughts... handwritten or typed, emailing attached pdf or jpg of same by 6pm, Friday, July 3, to mus21stc@gmail.com (or school email).

It's been great hearing from and seeing some of you!  Planning on a third Zoom get-together this Friday-- 6pm San Ramon; 7pm Pleasant Hill, sending out email invite c. 15 minutes prior...

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Meanwhile,

continue to play catch-up with video on-location-UC-Davis-filming re

Music History, Op. 335
    III.  Medieval Music I (2. Romanesque to Gothic)
       2d. Crusades
         School of Compostela - Cunctipotens Genitor; France - Dance Royale I;
         Hildegard von Bingen - O Successores


    IV. Medieval Music II (1. Ars Antiqua)
       1a. Troubadours
            Guiraut de Bornelh - Reis Glorios (Glorious King);
            Raimbaut de Vaqueiras - Kalenda Maya (The First of May)

     1b. Trobairitz, Trouveres
            Beatriz, Comtessa de Dia (Countess of Die) - I Must Sing, Though I'd Rather Not;
            Richard Coeur-de-Lion (the Lionheart) - Ja Nuns Hons Pris (No Captive Knows);
            Conon de Bethune - Ahi! Amours (Alas, Love)


     1c. Song and Dance
             France - Chansonier Cange; England - Estampie


     1d. Manuscrit du Roi


            Bagpipe and Shawm Dances;


                         Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Estampies Real


      1e. Duet Dance


            France -


                        Ductia (6 Versions!);


                                                    Mark Alburger - History Phases, Op. 153: XII


The out-and-about also includes


another


Pony Express jaunt,


this the last in the University of California, Davis,


Arboretum,


walking from Center for Child and Family Studies Parking via the


Arboretum's GATEway


Garden


(that's Gardens, Arts, and The Environment, never mind that the usage in this context is a tad round-robin),


past


Christopher Fennel's


Shovel Gateway (2013) to the


Commons (formerly which featured a Borders Books and Music, to which a pilgrimage was made many Sundays for the New York Times, difficult to obtain that day elsewhere locally, back in the days of more widespread use of print).


Return confirms the


fate of poor


Formerly-the-Main-Channel


Putah Creek

(to whit, the occasional violent flooding,


vis a vis human experience,


proved its undoing),

through


Australian /


New Zealand


Collection,

proving

potentially

a

much

more

extensive


hike

than


planned...


on the


101st day of


summer,


high again 91


(and, suspiciously Dixon and Davis at identical highs of yesterday as well -- respecively, 91 and 95),


with more video production in the evening,


partially over a Metropolitan Opera quixotic production of Dmitri Shostakovich's marvelous


The Nose, Op. 15 (1928).