March 15 - Modern in Mind


C Whole-Tone Scale

C  D  E  F#  G#  A#  C


Write Your Own 12-Tone Row  [an example of Serial ("Series") Music]

Chromatic Scale in a new ordering



Two Typical New-Music Ensembles

Pierrot [after Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire {Lunatic Pierrot)]

Flute
Clarinet
Piano
Violin
Cello

Histoire [after Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale)]
Clarinet
Bassoon
Trumpet
Trombone
Percussion
Violin
Bass


Dates, Three Stylistic Periods - and Types of Music Written, for...

Igor Stravinsky - 1882-1871
Post-Impressionist - Ballets
Neoclassic - Ballets, Concertos, Operas, Symphonies
Serial - Ballets, Memorial Pieces



Listening

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Riders to the Sea: Maurya's Aria (IX. They Are All Gone Now)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6I_m7GbU_o at 30:35

[8874] Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question

[8874] Arnold Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire: IX. Night

Bela Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta: II. Allegro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m129k5YcQnU at 7:04

Igor Stravinsky - Concerto for Piano and Winds: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS7d8fI9hPw

[8885] Alban Berg - Wozzeck: March and Lullaby

***


Up


early,


off


eventually,


down


80


at


the


edge of


the fog,

680


Contra Costa,


Alcosta,


Old Ranch,


again


parking


remotely


and


meeting


the


Music


Historians for works of Giacomo Puccini, Gustav Mahler, Carl Nielsen, and more.


Thereafter,


back to


the car,


and


off


for






walk


on


Windemere


Ridge,


a


pure


open


rise,


with


views


extending


west


to


Las


Trampas,


north


towards


Mt.


Diablo


and


south,


eying


distant


Sunol


Ridge.


Slightly



down


from


the


highlands,


south


on


Sycamore


Grove


knifing


through


suburbs,


past


East


Branch,


to


Rolling


Hills,


then


trending


east


in


view



of


indeed



undulating



ridges,


apparently


inaccessible


(probably


part


of


Parks


Reserve


Forces


Training


Area?),


to


complete


the


loop.


All


this


on


the


magical ides and 8th day of summer, high plummeting down 10 to 71 --

San Ramon, 73


Pleasant Hill, 69


and


Pinole, 58 --


eventually


homeward


through


Contra Costa


and


Solano


on


80,


via


errands,


to


finish


instrumental parts re The Decameron: Seventh Day, Op. 262: Novel X - Tingoccio returns from the other world and score-study page 13 the Igor Stravinsky Octet: I. Sinfonia (1923)