October 11 - Blues in the Day
C (Lydian) Blues - N.B. the above notated in Treble Clef
C Eb F (F#) G Bb C
Four C Chords - again, in Treble Clef, below
C Augmented (Caug) G#
E
C
C Major (C) G
E
C
C Minor (Cm) G
Eb
C
C Diminished (Cdim) Gb
Eb
C
I, IV, and V Chords in 12-Bar Blues - N.B. I chord continues in first 4 measure
IV chord is in measures 5 and 6, etc.
Chord I
Measure # 1 2 3 4
IV I
5 6 7 8
V IV I
9 10 11 12
Listening - Wikipedia, etc., links for your optional reference
Sergei Prokofiev - Lieutenant Kije: IV. Troika (Sleigh Ride)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC-1sLcXYfE (@ 12:12)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Prokofiev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_Kijé_(Prokofiev)
Darius Milhaud - Le Boeuf sur le Toit (The Ox on the Roof: The Nothing-Doing Bar)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZLfIKYg0Pg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Milhaud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_bœuf_sur_le_toit
Aaron Copland - An Outdoor Overture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqhYsw0O7BY&t=176s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Copland
https://www.allmusic.com/composition/an-outdoor-overture-for-orchestra-or-band-mc0002355322
Harry Partch - U.S. Highball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy9AtlLrYaI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Partch
https://www.allmusic.com/composition/us-highball-for-voices-partch-instruments-from-the-wayward-mc0002419932
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 6: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ryR1OHx34w
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._6_(Shostakovich)
Oliver Messiaen - Turangalila Symphony: IV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PjyCpRKDrk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Messiaen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turangalîla-Symphonie
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20th-Century I Quiz for the
Music Historians,
on
another day of compromised visibility,
southwest
I-
80,
south
680, to
Bollinger Canyon and DVC San Ramon.
Out
afterwards
on a
brief
jaunt
from Karina
to
Bowen,
east / west on
Live Oak --
then
down
Windemere
and
Tassajara,
eventually
homeward
in
all
this
semi-smoky
sublimity
(with winds blowing south,
the fires are not presently directing their ire much east of Sonoma / Napa )
to edit
Fresh Voices I-XVII Chronology, in Thanks, Op. 272: IIa. Antigone, Op. 88 (2000, Anouilh): XV. Aria - "You think you knew".
192nd day of summer,
high down 4 to 79...
Pleasant Hill, 74
San Ramon, 71
Pinole, 65...