July 2 - Red Blues
Good morning! Here's the next Online Lecture (playlist of 6 linked c. 15-minute original videos on YouTube). Looking forward to your notes on this one, as well as all since this past Monday (c. 300-500 words each) -- handwritten or typed -- as pdf or jpg attachment to mus21stc@gmail.com (or school email), by 6pm, this Friday, July 3). Happy 4th, soon!
Information for Quiz 10 (20th-Century Music II) below second picture (Enemies of the People... sound familiar?) -- emailing y'all blank pdf of same, w/ identical due date above.
Also planning on Zoom III for all interested parties -- a third optional online get-together tomorrow... pretty much immediately following deadline (Friday, July 3) as follows:
6pm San Ramon section
7pm Pleasant Hill section
... sending out Zoom invite via group email approx. 15 minutes previous!...
Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (2. Berg to Copland)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnPrgWFuhqI&list=PLtV-SdP8TZceAgn3oKT-0Z8j18DO8PUBu
Details of the 6 constituent parts below...
Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (2a. Berg to Prokofiev)
Alban Berg, King Oliver, Ernst Toch, Max Steiner, Jelly Roll Morton, Sergei Prokofiev
https://youtu.be/OnPrgWFuhqI
Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (2b. Prokofiev to Hindemith)
Sergei Prokofiev, Ferde Grofe, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Paul Hindemith
https://youtu.be/0FV-60cF0VY
Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (2c. Orff to Gershwin)
Carl Orff, Henry Cowell, Adolph Deutsch, George Gershwin
https://youtu.be/6tyXX4djxC0
Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (2d. Gershwin to Poulenc)
George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Francis Poulenc
https://youtu.be/IXCxbGZ9jn8
Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (2e. Poulenc to Copland)
Francis Poulenc, George Antheil, Aaron Copland
https://youtu.be/V6-h5ifvYv8
Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (2f. Copland)
Aaron Copland
https://youtu.be/uQkyte7Obeg
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[Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev concerned about many situations, but not re Quiz 10 -- 20th-Century Music II... Take-Home Worksheet, actually... emailing you all a blank copy (alternately, you can always make your own hand-written version): due as returned email pdf / jpg attachment by 6pm, Friday, July 3, to mus21stc@gmail.com or my school email address ]
Happy Pretty-Much-Shelter-in-Place Fourth of July!
C (Lydian) Blues Scale / Four C Chords
Chord Pattern in a Typical 12-Bar Blues
Chord I
Measure 1 2 3 4
IV I
5 6 7 8
V IV I
9 10 11 12
Listening
Sergei Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf
https://www.teachertube.com/video/peter-and-the-wolf-245162
(N.B. this is the Walt Disney version - not quite Prokofiev's original!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Prokofiev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_the_Wolf
George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2_yRwPPIEc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gershwin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhapsody_in_Blue
http://imslp.org/wiki/Rhapsody_in_Blue_(Gershwin,_George)
Francis Poulenc - Double Piano Concerto: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V87wGyfUQiQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Poulenc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerto_for_Two_Pianos_and_Orchestra_(Poulenc)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Concerto_for_2_Pianos,_FP_61_(Poulenc,_Francis)
Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVahuS9hk_s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Copland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Spring
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTqsU7tQW48
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._5_(Shostakovich)
Olivier Messiaen - Turangalila Symphonie: IV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PjyCpRKDrk (@20:36)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Messiaen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turangal%C3%AEla-Symphonie
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More on-location filming for
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
All this done in the context of
another experience
on the
Pretty-Much-It
Pony Express
Trail --
bookended by two attempts to play the
University of California, Davis, Wyatt Deck Piano (alas, it is a popular spot) --
walking today from
Davis Commons Parking and
Arboretum GATEway Garden,
through the Arcade,
to the
Lawn,
Junction
First /
E /
Roberts,
and
John Natsoulas
Gallery.
Return
with
2
film-
making
stops:
the
Lea
and
Terrace.
Cats,
views, and
sunflowers...
on the
102nd day of summer, high down 4 to 87 (Dixon, 86; Davis, 89)...