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
***
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
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