October 4 - Up in the Air
C Whole-Tone Scale
C D E F# G# A# C
Write Your Own 12-Tone Row
Chromatic Scale in a New Order (i.e. mixed up)
Instrumentation of Two New-Music Ensembles
Pierrot [After Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire (Moonstruck Pierrot]
Flute
Clarinet
Piano
Violin
Cello
Histoire [After Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat (The Story of a Solder)]
Clarinet
Bassoon
Trumpet
Trombone
Percussion
Violin
Bass
Igor Stravinsky - Dates and Three Periods + Types of Music Written
(1882-1971)
Russian - Ballets
Neoclassic - Ballets, Concertos, Operas, Symphonies
Serial - Ballets, Memorial Pieces
Listening (with optional Wikipedia, etc., links)
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 4: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMG70e0Usn0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Vaughan_Williams)
Charles Ives - Scherzo: Over the Pavements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF1kyiYml0A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ives
https://repository.wlu.edu/bitstream/handle/11021/27232/RG38_Trump_theses_2014.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y
(chapter 2 of this thesis is on Scherzo: Over the Pavements)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) - Mother Goose Suite: I. Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty in the Wood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3rir1bWTyI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Ravel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_mère_l%27Oye
Bela Bartok (1881-1945) - Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pydEoJI8X84
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Béla_Bartók
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonata_for_Two_Pianos_and_Percussion
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) - Oedipus Rex (1927): Act I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIdimmUtYOI [the music starts @ 2:27]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_rex_(opera)
Alban Berg (1885-1935) - Lulu (1935): Finale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSnNL7BfdCY [Lulu's death @ 56:00]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alban_Berg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulu_(opera)
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Bushes abounding in bees along East Alamo Creek,
from distant exotic-neighboring
Silk Hill to
Macedon
and
back --
after the
morning commute and
another shining session
at
DVC San Ramon,
and before the
stunning return
over bridges and
beside Bay
to compose page 2 The Decameron - Ninth Day, Op. 270: Novel I - Madonna Francesca, having two lovers, artfully rids herself of both --
on the 185th day of summer,
high back up 1 to 82
(locally and in Pleasant Hill... ABA of 82-81-82 last 3 days... San Ramon, 80; Pinole 72)...