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)...