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...