March 8 - More Romantic


C Chromatic Scale

Up - C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B C

Down - C B Bb A Ab G Gb F E Eb D Db C


Instruments in a Large Orchestra

Woodwinds
[4] Flute
[4] Oboe
[4] Clarinet
[4] Bassoon

Brass
[4] Trumpet
[8] Horn
[3] Trombone
[1] Tuba

Percussion
[1-2] Harp
[1] Piano
Mallets
Battery
Timpani

Strings
[17] Violin I
[15] Violin II
[13] Viola
[11] Cello
[9] Bass


Listening

[8833] Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 4: III

[8840] Peter Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture

Gabriel Faure - Pavane 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw8PurepHxk

[8858] Giacomo Puccini - La Boheme (The Bohemians): Act II

[8860] Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1: III

Carl Nielsen - Symphony No. 5: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbTBrdB-1KM

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Ah, yes, the Music Historians in action taking Quiz 7 (Classical / Romantic I), with the spector of more Romanticism II on the musical horizon. 


All this after making the careful way,


on the first day of summer temperatures --


whoo ha! --


high precisely 70 (also in Pleasant Hill, and the minimum for this designation),


to San Ramon (still a slightly chillier 69). 


Back


via


north


and


west Blackhawk,


680


up


to


Fairfield,


making an appointment for, shall we say, standard maintenance,


and anon homeward,


via errands,


to


do instrumental parts for The Decameron: Seventh Day, Op. 262: Novel III -  Fra Rinaldo lies with his gossip, and continue score-study (page 6 each) re

Charles Ives (1874-1954) - The Unanswered Question (1908)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) - Octet (1923)