MARK ALBURGER, 2020

November 11 - Trying to Find a Calm Center

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (2. Riley to Glass)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S7enCsoyQU&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcdfQQy7sCQugeVfcxJxj43c

Once again, feel free to listen to / watch videos -- or, alternately, write on subjects, with the assistance of Wikipedia and YouTube...

Plan A, entailing...

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (2a. Riley)
Terry Riley
https://youtu.be/4S7enCsoyQU

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (2b. Riley to Young)
Terry Riley, Peter Schickele, La Monte Young
https://youtu.be/4w11uIfZ1Ck

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (2c. Young to Reich)
La Monte Young, Richard Berry, Steve Reich
https://youtu.be/m5Mo8a_YEZk

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (2d. Reich)
Steve Reich
https://youtu.be/_qHOkoTUdgg

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (2e. Reich to Glass)
Steve Reich, Billy Roberts, Philip Glass
https://youtu.be/DUz1Q5C_Wg8

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (2f. Glass)
Philip Glass
https://youtu.be/dXfMf78a488

***

[Terry Riley, serene, at least here, for Quiz 12 (20th-Century Music IV), worksheet due -- along w/ all notes -- 6pm, Friday, November 13, to mus21stc@gmail.com]

Two Classic-Rock Progressions

[Parts I-II are shown complete]

[Parts III-IV are multi-page, the latter beginning with keyboard solo]

[Part V begins with the entrance of voices]

John Adams - Nixon in China: I Am the Wife of Mao Tse-Tung

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoxaunpyA0g (@ 45:07)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams_(composer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_in_China

November 10 - More Sound and Light

Just remembered this line from Philip Glass's Akhnaten: "The Sun has set on he who knew thee not oh Amun, but as for he who knows thee he shines"

We hereby claim the below playlist...

Mark Alburger - Music c. 1960-1980 (1. Boulez to Riley)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbpYpf1MnCA&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcd-QeUFqiKNG4TUCN6Yz3PJ

But, instead of above, feel free to check out Wikipedia and YouTube Links, such as...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_stream

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_jazz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockabilly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roll

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclecticism_in_music

And, if you're going for the videos, we hereby delineate them as...

Mark Alburger - Music c. 1960-1980 (1a. Boulez, Schuller)
Pierre Boulez, Gunther Schuller
https://youtu.be/JbpYpf1MnCA

Mark Alburger - Music c. 1960-1980 (1b. Schuller to Fried)
Gunther Schuller, Chuck Berry, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Gerald Fried
https://youtu.be/_gw60Jr1zcM

Mark Alburger - Music c. 1960-1980 (1c. Bock to Crumb)
Jerry Bock, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Karlheinz Stockhausen, George Crumb
https://youtu.be/gEoX8_aeMeE

Mark Alburger - Music c. 1960-1980 (1d. Crumb)
George Crumb
https://youtu.be/AILCs-wxC-M

Mark Alburger - Music c. 1960-1980 (1e. Crumb, Goldsmith)
George Crumb, Jerry Goldsmith
https://youtu.be/Uzdnvlldqm4

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (1f. Goldsmith to Riley)
Jerry Goldsmith, Edwin London, Ornette Coleman, Jerry Herman, Mauricio Kagel, Lalo Schifren,
Krzysztof Penderecki, Mike Stoller, Terry Riley
https://youtu.be/WaVsX08mT7E

November 9 - Enlightening

The Age of Darkness is over (or, at least beginning to end)! Let the light shine!

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (1. Boulez to Riley)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbpYpf1MnCA&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcd-QeUFqiKNG4TUCN6Yz3PJ

Details of above, below...

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (1a. Boulez, Schuller)
Pierre Boulez, Gunther Schuller
https://youtu.be/JbpYpf1MnCA

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (1b. Schuller to Fried)
Gunther Schuller, Chuck Berry, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Gerald Fried
https://youtu.be/_gw60Jr1zcM

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (1c. Bock to Crumb)
Jerry Bock, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Karlheinz Stockhausen, George Crumb
https://youtu.be/gEoX8_aeMeE

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (1d. Crumb)
George Crumb
https://youtu.be/AILCs-wxC-M

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (1e. Crumb, Goldsmith)
George Crumb, Jerry Goldsmith
https://youtu.be/Uzdnvlldqm4

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (1f. Goldsmith to Riley)
Jerry Goldsmith, Edwin London, Ornette Coleman, Jerry Herman, Mauricio Kagel, Lalo Schifren,
Krzysztof Penderecki, Mike Stoller, Terry Riley
https://youtu.be/WaVsX08mT7E

November 5 - Perhaps Not Singing the Blues

Greetings in hope!

Feel free to listen to / watch the video playlist below to fulfill the c. 300-500 word Notes requirement -- or, as a second option, you can research the content of the playlists on Wikipedia, YouTube, etc., and provide your own interpretation of the material!

Mark Alburger - Music c. 1940-1960 (2. Hovhaness to Berio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3QopGwr80g&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcci9Ll1MgpdChLtcPoTQIvf

re latter option (and you can mix-n-max), including...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminacy_(music)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conlon_Nancarrow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astor_Piazzolla

The constinuent parts o' videos...

Mark Alburger - Music c. 1940-1960 (2a. Hovhaness to Cage)
Alan Hovhaness, Robert Johnson, Jan Koetsier, Gian Carlo Menotti, John Cage
https://youtu.be/t3QopGwr80g

Mark Alburger - Music c. 1940-1960 (2b. Cage)
John Cage
https://youtu.be/MN-QNdc5Ut4

Mark Alburger - Music c. 1940-1960 (2c. Cage to Britten)
John Cage, Conlon Nancarrow, Benjamin Britten
https://youtu.be/lkSFYugn0Xw

Mark Alburger - Music c. 1940-1960 (2d. Britten to Bernstein)
Benjamin Britten, Witold Lutoslawski, Willie Dixon, Carlos Surinach, Alberto Ginastera,
Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Leonard Bernstein
https://youtu.be/xPlLr--bQl0

Mark Alburger - Music c. 1940-1960 (2e. Bernstein to Arnold)
Leonard Bernstein, George Rochberg, Bobby Troup, Alexander Courage, Malcolm Arnold
https://youtu.be/2acYaT_6dBM

Mark Alburger - Music c. 1940-1960 (2f. Piazzolla to Berio)
Astor Piazzolla, Nelson Riddle, Elmer Bernstein, Neal Hefti, Iannis Xenakis, Gyorgy Ligeti
Paul Desmond, Maurice Jarre, Henry Mancini, Leonard Rosenman, Luciano Berio
https://youtu.be/IXtPQAa-PGk

***

[John Cage, overjoyed about being featured on Quiz 11 (Music c. 1940-1960) -- take-home worksheet, due back as an attached pdf or jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com (or my school email), by 6pm, Friday, ... which is, of course, also turn-in time for Notes (c. 300-500 words) on Lecture-Playlist or Wikipedia / YouTube original in-your-own-words research]

Write your own 4-Note Passage (Prime), followed by its Retrograde (Backwards),
Inversion (Upside-Down), and Retrograd-Inversion (Backwards Upside-Down)

Example:

Prime: DEAG
Retrograde: GADE (the above backwards)
Inversion: DCGA (start with first note of Prime,
                                    inverting intervals... D to E is a 2nd up, in Prime
                                                               so, D to C is a 2nd down, in Inversion, etc.
Retrograde-Inversion: AGCD (backwards of the Inversion)

Instrumentation of Three Styles of Jazz (Oldest to Most Recent - c. 1920 - 1950)

             Dixieland                             Swing                          Bebop
             (New-Orleans Style)            (Big Band)                  (Bop)

[Horns] [1-2] Clarinet(s)                  [4-5] Saxophones        Saxophone
              [1-2] Trumpet(s)                  [4-5] Trumpets           Trumpet
               Trombone                           [4-5] Trombones         Trombone

Rhythm Banjo                                  Guitar                          Guitar
               Piano                                   Piano                          Piano
               Bass [Tuba]                         Bass                            Bass
               Drums                                  Drums                        Drums

Listening

Virginia (Joe Garland, 1903-1977) - In the Mood (1938, Eastern America)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPXwkWVEIIw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Garland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Mood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_band

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Miller_Orchestra

Armenia / Georgia (Aram Khachaturian, 1903-1978) - Gayane (1942): Sabre Dance (Western Asia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL357YnFr2DIp_roU8aoVc71B8t5oOJNKW&v=mUQHGpxrz-8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aram_Khachaturian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayane_(ballet)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_Dance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Armenia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Georgia_(country)

Hungary (Miklos Rozsa, 1907-1995) - Ben Hur (1959): Rowing of the Galley Slaves (Eastern Europe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYrmcQoovmI
(with condensed Score and Film!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikl%C3%B3s_R%C3%B3zsa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Hur_(1959_film)#Musical_score

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_score

California (John Cage, 1912-1992) - Sonatas and Interludes (1948): Sonata V (Western America)
https://youtu.be/MN-QNdc5Ut4
(@ 6:47, with Score!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonatas_and_Interludes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepared_piano

Argentina (Alberto Ginastera, 1916-1983) - Harp Concerto, Op. 25 (1956):
I. Allegro guisto (Southern America)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3CJk32SOMU
(with Score!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Ginastera

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harp_Concerto_(Ginastera)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Argentina

Ghana / Nigeria (1920) - Highlife Music (Nyakrom Brass Band, 1974) /
Highlife Improvisation (1972, Western Africa)
https://youtu.be/kstBJ2_fQ24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJJMdihXbZw
(Live Performance, 2010!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Ghana

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlife

November 4 - Mapping Out the Future...

Greetings in these uncertain times!

Feel free to listen to / watch the video playlist below to fulfill the c. 300-500 word Notes requirement -- or, as a second option, you can research the content of the playlists on Wikipedia, YouTube, etc., and provide your own interpretation of the material!

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (2. Hovhaness to Berio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3QopGwr80g&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcci9Ll1MgpdChLtcPoTQIvf

The constinuent parts...

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (2a. Hovhaness to Cage)
Alan Hovhaness, Robert Johnson, Jan Koetsier, Gian Carlo Menotti, John Cage
https://youtu.be/t3QopGwr80g

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (2b. Cage)
John Cage
https://youtu.be/MN-QNdc5Ut4

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (2c. Cage to Britten)
John Cage, Conlon Nancarrow, Benjamin Britten
https://youtu.be/lkSFYugn0Xw

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (2d. Britten to Bernstein)
Benjamin Britten, Witold Lutoslawski, Willie Dixon, Carlos Surinach, Alberto Ginastera,
Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Leonard Bernstein
https://youtu.be/xPlLr--bQl0

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (2e. Bernstein to Arnold)
Leonard Bernstein, George Rochberg, Bobby Troup, Alexander Courage, Malcolm Arnold
https://youtu.be/2acYaT_6dBM

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (2f. Piazzolla to Berio)
Astor Piazzolla, Nelson Riddle, Elmer Bernstein, Neal Hefti, Iannis Xenakis, Gyorgy Ligeti
Paul Desmond, Maurice Jarre, Henry Mancini, Leonard Rosenman, Luciano Berio
https://youtu.be/IXtPQAa-PGk

***

[John Cage, in Zen complacency about not being featured on Quiz 11 (20th-Century Music III) -- take-home worksheet, due back as an attached pdf or jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com (or my school email), by 6pm, Friday, ... which is, of course, also turn-in time for Notes (c. 300-500 words) on Lecture-Playlist or Wikipedia / YouTube original in-your-own-words research]

Write your own 4-Note Passage (Prime), followed by its Retrograde (Backwards),
Inversion (Upside-Down), and Retrograd-Inversion (Backwards Upside-Down)

Instrumentation of Three Styles of Jazz (Oldest to Most Recent - c. 1920 - 1950)

             Dixieland                             Swing                          Bebop
             (New-Orleans Style)            (Big Band)                  (Bop)

[Horns] [1-2] Clarinet(s)                  [4-5] Saxophones        Saxophone
              [1-2] Trumpet(s)                  [4-5] Trumpets           Trumpet
               Trombone                           [4-5] Trombones         Trombone

Rhythm Banjo                                  Guitar                          Guitar
               Piano                                   Piano                          Piano
               Bass [Tuba]                         Bass                            Bass
               Drums                                  Drums                        Drums

Listening

Samuel Barber - Second Essay for Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34NThn0cZE8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Barber

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Essay_for_Orchestra_(Barber)

Alan Hovhaness - And God Created Great Whales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgESUPnCQ5o

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Hovhaness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_God_Created_Great_Whales

Benjamin Britten - War Requiem: II. Dies Irae

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwBEtfXXsvU (@ 16:30)
(Britten conducts!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Britten

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Requiem

Leonard Bernstein - Chichester Psalms: II. Psalm 23 / 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1axCTkIfP9Q (@ 3:40)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Bernstein

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichester_Psalms

Pierre Boulez - Le Marteau sans Maitre (The Masterless Hammer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fmr08vTFDs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Boulez

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Marteau_sans_maître

George Crumb - Black Angels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etHtCVeU4-I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Crumb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Angels_(Crumb)

November 3 - For the People

Mark Alburger - Music c. 1940-1960 (1. Copland to Hovhaness)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcbm9QvOGO0&list=PLtV-SdP8TZccLCMecbIxT385TP9N3Fcb2

In the spirit of John Muir:
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe,"

Some of the links directly below may be of interest re the Playlist...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_theatre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixieland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtonal_music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stride_(music)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_the_Soviet_Union

... consisting of...

Mark Alburger - Music c. 1940-1960 (1a. Copland to Partch)
Aaron Copland, Kurt Weill, Louis Armstrong, Jester Hairston, Frederick Loewe, Harry Partch
https://youtu.be/Bcbm9QvOGO0

Mark Alburger - Music c. 1940-1960 (1b. Partch to Khachaturian)
Harry Partch, Joaquin Rodrigo, Richard Rodgers, Meredith Willson, Aram Khachaturian
https://youtu.be/HPC4-yh8cc4

Mark Alburger - Music c. 1940-1960 (1c. Khachaturian to Shostakovich)
Aram Khachaturian, Luigi Dallapiccola, Joe Garland, Dmitri Kabalevsky,
Fats Waller, Josephine Baker, Dmitri Shostakovich
https://youtu.be/ro_WW1w_8RQ

Mark Alburger - Music c. 1940-1960 (1d. Shostakovich)
Dmitri Shostakovich
https://youtu.be/DqA4xS0qabo

Mark Alburger - Music c. 1940-1960 (1e. Shostakovich to Messiaen)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Cab Calloway, Miklos Rozsa, Olivier Messiaen
https://youtu.be/W2uYhA7Yv2s
(N.B. Shostakovich Symphony No. 15 blocked!)

Mark Alburger - Music c. 1940-1960 (1f. Messiaen to Hovhaness)
Olivier Messiaen, Samuel Barber, T-Bone Walker, Bernard Herrmann, Alan Hovhaness
https://youtu.be/OU15yhAxNEs

Here's to change! Your perceptive personal notes (c. 300 - 500 words) by 6pm, Friday, November 6, as attached pdf or jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com...

November 2 - Potential Blues

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (1. Copland to Hovhaness)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcbm9QvOGO0&list=PLtV-SdP8TZccLCMecbIxT385TP9N3Fcb2

Consisting of...

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (1a. Copland to Partch)
Aaron Copland, Kurt Weill, Louis Armstrong, Jester Hairston, Frederick Loewe, Harry Partch
https://youtu.be/Bcbm9QvOGO0

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (1b. Partch to Khachaturian)
Harry Partch, Joaquin Rodrigo, Richard Rodgers, Meredith Willson, Aram Khachaturian
https://youtu.be/HPC4-yh8cc4

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (1c. Khachaturian to Shostakovich)
Aram Khachaturian, Luigi Dallapiccola, Joe Garland, Dmitri Kabalevsky,
Fats Waller, Josephine Baker, Dmitri Shostakovich
https://youtu.be/ro_WW1w_8RQ

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (1d. Shostakovich)
Dmitri Shostakovich
https://youtu.be/DqA4xS0qabo

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (1e. Shostakovich to Messiaen)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Cab Calloway, Miklos Rozsa, Olivier Messiaen
https://youtu.be/W2uYhA7Yv2s
(N.B. Shostakovich Symphony No. 15 blocked!)

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (1f. Messiaen to Hovhaness)
Olivier Messiaen, Samuel Barber, T-Bone Walker, Bernard Herrmann, Alan Hovhaness
https://youtu.be/OU15yhAxNEs

Well, we're getting close! Your perceptive personal notes (c. 300 - 500 words) by 6pm, Friday, November 6, as attached pdf or jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com...