March 29 - Crazy


Write Your Own Four-Note Passage

Forwards (Prime)

Backwards (Retrograde) 

Upside-Down (Inversion)

Backwards Upside-Down (Retrograde-Inversion)

Example:  A (up a 3rd) C (down a 2nd) B (up a 4th) E
       
                  E B C A  (backwards of above)

                  A (down a 3rd) F (up a 2nd) G (down a 4th) D

                  D G F A (backwards of above)


Typical Instrumentation of Three Types of Jazz Bands

Dixieland (New Orleans Style - c. 1915-1930)
[1-2] Clarinet(s)
[1-2] Trumpets(s)
Trombone
Banjo
Piano
Tuba / Bass
Drums

Swing (Big Band - c. 1930-1945)
[4-5] Saxophones
[4-5] Trumpets
[4-5] Trombones
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums

Bebop (Bop - c. 1945-1960)
Saxophone
Trumpet
Trombone
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums


Listening

Samuel Barber - Second Essay for Orchestra   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34NThn0cZE8

Alan Hovhaness - Flute Concerto ("Elibris - God of Dawn")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fq3nk-cfZM

John Cage - The Perilous Night: VI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knhEwnJe2Qw (at 9:58)

[8918] Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story: Cool

[8925] Pierre Boulez - Le Marteau sans Maitre (The Masterless Hammer): I

George Crumb - Quest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2XUyRtjkCg

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More fun with the


Music Historians,


as


well


as


getting


down


there,


and


walking


on


Rolling


Hills


Trail


east from Holborn to Six Pillars Park and


back.


14th


day


of


summer,


high


up


6


to


79...

San Ramon, 77


Pleasant Hill, 78



Pinole, 70


The


journey


homeward;


a


doctor's appointment


re-defined in mid-afternoon, ultimately returning to orchestrate page 10 re  John Cage's The Perilous Night: VI, as Op. 265.


Also acquire digital copy of the Cage Sonatas and Interludes in Joshua Pierce's marvlous interpretation, first heard way back at Swarthmore College Music Library in 1975, when it first came out on Wergo...

March 28 - In Light of the Present


13th


day


of


summer,


high 73 --


Pleasant Hill, 75


Pinole, 70 --


Week 10 material with the Theoreticians: Added Tones... "non-chord / non-harmonic"... with musical examples based on works of George Gershwin, Kurt Weill, and Sergei Prokofiev + beginning work in Voice-Leading.


Return,


via


80,


with


errands eventually, to orchestrate page 9 of John Cage's The Perilous Night: VI, as Op. 265...

March 27 - Celebratory Blues


Jelly Roll Morton, Sergei Prokofiev, Darius Milhaud, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, et. al. with the Music Historians --


followed


by


a 


stroll


on 


Rolling Hills Trail from Barons-Enfield


to


Holborn


and


back,


then


onwards,


via


Tassajara


Valley,


to


stimulating


paper-grading at Claim Jumper


and


welcome


errands,


returning


up


the


beautiful,


blustery,


cloud-


bespeckled 680 /


Ramsey


Frontage



Road /


Lopes


Bypass /


80


corridor


to


orchestrate John Cage's The Perilous Night: VI, as Op. 265...


on


the


71st day of summer,


high up 3 to 66...


San Ramon, 68
Pleasant Hill, 67