Write your own four-note passage forwards (prime), backwards (retrograde),
upside-down (inversion), and backwards upside-down (retrograde inversion)
Example (please come up with your own)
A C B G (four notes of your choice) / G B C A (i.e. reverse of previous)
A F G B (upside down of above*) / B G F A (i.e. reverse of previous)
(* A to C is a 3rd up, i.e. A-B-C a distance up involving 3 letter-names
A to F is a 3rd down, i.e. A-G-F a distance down involving 3 letter names, etc.)
Typical Instrumentation of Three Jazz Bands
Dixieland Swing Bebop
(New-Orleans Style) (Big Band) (Bop / Rebop)
[1-2] Clarinet(s) [4-5] Saxophones Saxophone
[1-2] Trumpet(s) [4-5] Trumpets Trumpet
Trombone [4-5] Trombones Trombone
Banjo Guitar Guitar
Piano Piano Piano
Tuba (Bass) Bass Bass
Drums Drums Drums
Listening (with Wikipedia, etc., links for our mutual enlightenment)
John Cage - A Valentine Out of Season
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMJ7GpOTWjw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_for_prepared_piano_by_John_Cage#A_Valentine_Out_of_Season
Benjamin Britten - The Prince of the Pagodas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0so4O92hIk4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Britten
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince_of_the_Pagodas
Leonard Bernstein - Chichester Psalms: II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3WQkhptmVA (@ 5:00)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Bernstein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichester_Psalms
Malcolm Arnold - A Grand, Grand Festival Overture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bHB3F6o3AY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Arnold
https://www.allmusic.com/composition/a-grand-grand-overture-for-orchestra-op-57-mc0002375658
Pierre Boulez - Le Marteau sans Maitre (The Masterless Hammer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShcb8ogLYo
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=44u71qJFh00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Crumb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Angels_(Crumb)
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Quiz 10 for the Music Historians -- with works of Sergei Prokofiev, Darius Milhaud, Aaron Copland, Harry Partch, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Olivier Messiaen --
after
getting
down
to
DVC San Ramon,
and
before
another
stroll
on
Live Oak Trail,
presently from Tolley to Bethany,
via Limerick Park,
and
back.
Following
this,
a
trip,
via
Tassajara
Valley
and
Orinda Canyon,
to
UC
Berkeley Music Library for research re The Opus Project presents Opus 58 (8pm, Saturday, October 28, 2017, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA),
then on dizzingly to the monthly
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra monthly board meeting (8pm, November 4, St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 1111 O'Farrell, SF), on the 199th day of summer, high down 1 to 81
Pleasant Hill, 80
San Ramon, 79
Berkeley, 64
Pinole, 59
San Francisco, 63
with the editing of
Fresh Voices I-XVII Chronology, in Thanks, Op. 272: VIb. San Rafael News, Op. 51 (1994, Found Texts): III. Death Catch late...
