July 23 - Determined


[Igor Stravinsky, not the least concerned about Exam, Part II... Take-home, due -- as Part I, and both of the Review Lecture Notes -- 6pm, Friday, July 24, 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)
(Bernstein -- with beard! -- conducting)

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=FTiRrlgbYIM
(Composer conducting!)

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

***


Finish filming for


Music History, Op. 335   
     V. Renaissance Music (1. Early to High)
        1b. Tangles of the Heart and Mind)
            Johannes Ciconia,


            Baude Cordier,

            John Dunstable,


            Lionel Power,

               Korean and Harpsichord Music,

               Richard Smert


Eventually,


depart

for


another


adventure


on


the

Pony Express 'proximate-to-the-north ,

strolling


in

Davis


from

Bryant

east

to

Alicante Bike Path

north,

then

west

on

busy

Covell

past

Wildhorse

Agricultural

Buffer,

and

thence

to

return

on

the

128th day of summer,

high down 3 to 94

(Dixon, 90; Davis, 93).