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)...