December 31 - Covering the Situation

Wow!  So much to do, Lord willin', continuing at https://markalburger2022.blogspot.com/

December 12 - Happy 90th!

Happy

Birthday,

Mom!

You just keep getting better and better!

Love,

Mark and Harriet

December 9 - Fare Thee Well!

[Igor Stravinsky, not the least concerned about Exam, Part II... Take-home, due -- as Part I, and any the Review Lecture Notes as relevant (from Week 15) -- 6pm, Friday, December 10, to mus21stc@gmail.com]

It's been a pleasure teaching you all semester, Music Appreciation -- here's wishing the best in all future endeavors!

Write Any Scale (Other than a Major or Minor) and Identify

Write Four Chords (But Not on C) and Identify

Write the Instruments of a Large Orchestra, in Score Order


Again, please describe at least 5 aspects of the below selections -- including

Timbre / Tone-Color (Instruments / Voices)
Form
Style


Listening


Igor Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms: I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUSfrgPQjRM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_of_Psalms


Darius Milhaud - La Creation du Monde (The Creation of the World): Fugato

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgqXq0es4wc (@ 5:00)
(Bernstein -- with beard! -- conducting)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Milhaud

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_cr%C3%A9ation_du_monde


Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story: Cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wugWGhItaQA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Story

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Story_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_(West_Side_Story_song)


John Williams - Star Wars: Main Title

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTiRrlgbYIM
(Composer conducting!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Star_Wars


Mark Alburger - Camino Real: Block 10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP8AZZYpjIY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_Real_(play)
(the Tennessee Williams source of the libretto)


Fazil Say - Universe Symphony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFvZ5onSX3I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faz%C4%B1l_Say

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._3_%22Universe%22

December 8 - Surprise!

[Alarming World Music possibilities for Exam, Part II... Take-home, due -- as Part I, and both of the Review Lecture Notes (from Week 15, if you have not turned in already) -- 6pm, Friday, December 10, to mus21stc@gmail.com]... Also hope you can join us for the final Zoom Get-Together 5pm later today, Wednesday, December 8!

Thanks for a great semester!  Happy Holidays and feel free to stay in touch!

Best wishes for life, the universe, and everything!

Mark

Write Any Scale (Other than a Heptatonic [7-Note] Major or Minor) and Identify

Write Four Chords (But Not on C) and Identify

Write the Instrumentation of any Large World-Music Ensemble and Identify

Write the Instrumentation of any Small World-Music Ensemble and Identify

 


Again, please describe aspects of the below 6 selections -- including

Rhythm
Pitch
Dynamics
Timbre / Tone-Color (Instruments / Voices)
Texture
Harmony
Form
Context


Listening


[Music c. 1900-1920]

Indonesia (Bali) - Gamelan Gong Kebyar
(first performance in the style, 1915) (Eastern Asia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldPMifPbngc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Indonesia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Bali

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamelan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamelan_gong_kebyar


[Music c. 1920-1940]

France (Darius Milhaud, 1892-1974) -
La Creation du Monde (The Creation of the World), Op. 81 (1923): Fugato
(Northern Europe, w/ Western Africa and Eastern America influences)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgqXq0es4wc (@ 5:00)
(Bernstein -- with beard! -- conducting)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWpAQ6AWMDA
(With Score!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_stream

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Milhaud

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_cr%C3%A9ation_du_monde


[Music c. 1940-1960]

Argentina (Astor Piazzolla, 1921-1992) -
Tangazo, 1970 (Southern America)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTLeuYs69WI
(With Score!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Argentina

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tango

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuevo_tango

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astor_Piazzolla

https://www.laphil.com/musicdb/pieces/711/tangazo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandoneon


[Music c. 1960-1980]

Ghana (b. c. 1945) - 
Postal Works Cancelling Stamps at the University (1975) (Western Africa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXe0F5TRIhA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Ghana

https://parkarts.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/115813357/WorldsOfMusic.pdf
(Pages 67-70)


[Music c. 1980-2000]

California (Mark Alburger, b. 1957) -
Camino Real, Op. 110 (2003): Block 10
(Western America, w/ Western Europe influence)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP8AZZYpjIY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Alburger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_Real_(play)
(the Tennessee Williams source of the libretto)

http://markalburgerworks.blogspot.com/2003/02/camino-real-op-10.html


[Music c. 2000-2020]

Turkey (Fazil Say, b. 1970) - Universe Symphony, Op. 43 (2012):
I. Expansion of the Universe (Western Asia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFvZ5onSX3I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Turkey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faz%C4%B1l_Say

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._3_%22Universe%22

December 7 - Cameos

[Josquin des Pres, intent on Exam, Part I -- Take home, for Music Appreciation!  Due 6pm, Friday, December 10, as attached pdf / jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com]

Write Any Major Scale -- Except C -- with Solfege

Write Any Minor Scale -- Except A -- with Solfege

List Six Periods of Aesthetic History, before the 20th Century, with Dates

[Including Ancient, 3500 BC (BCE) - AD 400 (CE)]



Listening

For each description, please include information on...

Timbre (Instruments / Voices)
Form (Structure)
Stylistic Period (Historical Era)

+

at least two other aspects of music from any of below...

Rhythm (Note Values, Tempo, Time Signature[s])
Pitch (Mode / Scale, Motive, Phrase, Melody)
Dynamics
Texture
Harmony
Context (Biography, History, Text Setting / Words)


Greece - First Delphic Hymn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnkVaPKlf_U

http://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/1197218

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/01/anonymous-athenian-b-c-168-bc.html


Italy - Trotto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXxaCcVzsEU&feature=youtu.be (@ 15:54)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/composers-of-iialian-dances-b-c-1270.html

https://www.allmusic.com/composition/trotto-dance-for-instrumental-ensemble-mc0002367874
(Despite Blue Gene Tyranny's fine write up - the composition is in G Dorian)


Josquin des Pres - Scaramella

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu7-USz4F0k

https://www.allmusic.com/composition/scaramella-va-alla-guerra-song-for-4-parts-mc0002364210

http://imslp.org/wiki/Scaramella_(Josquin_Desprez)


J.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 1: I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kI1Ab6_Xfk
(with notation)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Concertos

http://imslp.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Concerto_No.1_in_F_major,_BWV_1046_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian)


Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"): IV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJH9b9EQtHM (@ 38:34)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Beethoven)

http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.9,_Op.125_(Beethoven,_Ludwig_van)


Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 4: III

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QLuYj2jxoc [23:33 - 29:25]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Brahms)

http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.4,_Op.98_(Brahms,_Johannes)

December 6 - Talking Music

[Drumming up some World Music business for Exam, Part I -- Take home!  Due 6pm, Friday, December 10, as attached pdf / jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com]

Write Any Major Scale -- Except C -- with Solfege

Write Any Minor Scale -- Except A -- with Solfege

List Six Periods of Aesthetic History, before the 20th Century, with Dates

[Including Ancient, c. 3500 BCE - 400 CE]



Listening

For each description, please include information on...

Rhythm
Pitch
Dynamics
Timbre (Instruments / Voices)
Texture
Harmony
Form
Context


[Music c. 3500 BCE - 400 CE]

Greece (Athenaeus [Athenaios Athenaiou], b. c. 158 BCE) -
First Delphic Hymn, c. 128 BCE (Southern Europe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnkVaPKlf_U

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Greece

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenaeus_(musician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_Hymns
(Interesting information, differing score)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/01/anonymous-athenian-b-c-168-bc.html
(Score which basically corresponds to performance --
reposted from Historical Anthology of Music, Harvard)


[Music c. 400-1400]

India (Hindustani music, dating back to c. 1100,
improvised by Ali Akbar Khan, 1922-2009) -
Raga Sind Bhairavi (Southern Asia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKVhSNY2Lkc
(intro by Yehudi Menuhin, reverb)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXIWAWbMFNI&list=RDV7NisVEE0oM&index=17
(Better recording of above, w/o intro)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_classical_music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Akbar_Khan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatur_Lal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindhu_Bhairavi_(raga)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarod

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanpura

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabla


[Music c. 1400-1600]

Russia - Wedding Song "Na Solnechnom Vskhode"
("At Dawn, At the Warming") (Eastern Europe)
https://youtu.be/GgO1-cuO8ls

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Russia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_traditional_music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_wedding_traditions


[Music c. 1600-1750]

Nigeria (Yoruba) - Talking Drum (Western Africa)
https://youtu.be/tcK47jChxjs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Nigeria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_drum


[Music c. 1750-1850]

Austria (Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827) -
Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"), Op. 125 (1824): IV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJH9b9EQtHM (@ 38:34)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Austria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Beethoven)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_music_(style)


[Music c. 1850-1900]

Washington, DC (John Philip Sousa, 1854-1932) -
The Stars and Stripes Forever (1896) (Eastern America)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsgcwZuQf6E
(reasonably brisk tempo, orchestra)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRQWP-TL4gk
(slower, band, with score)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_patriotic_music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_(music)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Philip_Sousa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stars_and_Stripes_Forever

December 4 - The Opus Project presents Opus 93

THE OPUS PROJECT
presents
OPUS 93
Transgression Transition Transmissions 

7pm, Saturday, December 4, 2021
Zoom Everywhere!


J.S. Bach (1685-1750)           
     Chromatic Fugue (BWV 903) (1720)

          https://youtu.be/JsLq4LPBOM4

          Katrina Szederkényi, Harp

     English Suite No. 4 in F Major, BWV 809 (1720)
          II. Allemande

          https://youtu.be/K8caDS1rNwg

          III.  Courante

           https://youtu.be/gVupDvFDfok

         IV. Sarabande

          https://youtu.be/Bor9NsGgpGE

          Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano

     Fugue in E Minor (anh. 93) (c. 1735)

          https://youtu.be/i591OoZV5G8

          Megan Cullen, Piano

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)    
     Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93 (1812)
           II. Allegretto scherzando

           Mark Alburger, reinterpreted as
                Genre Implosions No. 3 ("Time Cyclone"), Op. 167 (2008)
                     (1732) Haydn / Beethoven / Waters Clock

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)       
     Don Gayseros, D. 93 (1814)
          III. An dem jungen Morgen

          https://youtu.be/YvOh7avt4gk

          Megan Cullen, Soprano
          Appcompanist

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)       
     Etude No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 25 (1836)

           https://youtu.be/hXS8FvB9q54

           Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)       
     Elegy, WWV 93 (1858)

          https://youtu.be/kc_YqBhObs4

           Megan Cullen, Piano

Máximo Marchal (c. 1820-1880)       
     Rappelle toi (Do you remember), Op. 93 (1873)
           Excerpt

          https://youtu.be/q4cv8jcU5ow

           Megan Cullen, Soprano
           Appcompanist

Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)       
     Verschiedene Stücke (Different Pieces), Op. 93 (1887)
           Book IX
                X. At the Window

               https://youtu.be/3HLMowPBspE

                Megan Cullen, Piano

René Lenormand (1846-1932)       
     2 Mélodies, Op. 93 (1911)
          I. Le jardin des bambous

          https://youtu.be/nAP9uz7RQbg

               Megan Cullen, Soprano
               Appcompanist

Charles Ives (1874-1954)           
     General William Booth Enters Into Heaven (1922)

          Mark Alburger, reinterpreted as
               Peter Peter, Op. 363 (2021)
                    I Peter - All Flesh Is as Grass

Henriette Renié (1875–1956)       
     Contemplation (1898)

          https://youtu.be/kLz-Q8D3vWE

          Katrina Szederkényi, Harp

Joaquín Turina (1882-1949)      
     Las musas de Andalucía, Op. 93 (1942)
          I. Clio

          https://youtu.be/tgRu0huA5Po

           Megan Cullen, Piano

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)       
     Concerto for Organ, Timpani, and Strings, in G Minor, FP 93 (1938)
          I. Andante

          Mark Alburger, Sound File Collage, as part of
               The Well-Tempered World, Op. 214 (2013)
                    XVI. In G Minor
                         Antoine Busnois (1430-1492) - L'Homme Arme (The Armed Man, 1460 - Dorian)
                         Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) - Concerto Grosso in G Minor ("Christmas"),
                              Op. 6, No. 8 (1713)
                         Henry Purcell (1659-1695) - Dido and Aeneas (1689): Dido's Lament
                         J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
                               Organ Fugue in G Minor ("Little") (1707)
                               Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor ("Great") (1720)
                         F.J. Haydn (1732-1809) - Symphony 83 ("La Poule" - "The Hen") (1785)
                         W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) - Symphony No. 40 (1788)
                         Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) - Symphony No. 1 ("Winter Dreams") (1868)
                         Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) - Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 (1878),
                              No. 8 in G Minor (Furiant)
                         Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) - Pelleas et Melisande, Op. 89 (1894): III. Sicilienne
                         Claude Debussy (1862-1918) - String Quartet, Op. 10 (1893)
                         Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) - Mass in G Minor (1921)
                         Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) - Piano Concerto No. 2 (1912)
                         Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) - Organ Concerto (1938)
                         Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) - Symphony No. 11 ("The Year 1905") (1957)

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)       
     Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93 (1953)
          I. Moderato
          III. Allegretto - Largo - Piu Mosso

           Mark Alburger, reinterpreted as...

               Macbeth, Op. 328 (2019, after William Shakespeare, 1564-1616)
                    Act IV, Scene 1. A cavern.  In the middle, a boiling cauldron.

               Deploration Passacaglias, Op. 43 (1992)
                     XXI. Shostakovich

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-wbeA084jY&list=PL767FA679B03769EE&index=109

Marshall Fine (1956-2014)       
     Bestiary, Op. 93 (1989)
                       
          I. Intrada

          https://youtu.be/FMrC6cD2-dg

          Mark Alburger - Fine [Marshall] Orchestrations, Op. 368 (2021)

Mark Alburger (b. 1957)           
     The Creation, Op. 93 (2000)
           I. In the Beginning

           Megan Cullen, Soprano / Alto
           Mark Alburger, Tritone Orchestra

Sheli Nan (b. 1960)           
     The Quadruple Quest (2019)

           https://youtu.be/SFFk1ENX_GU

           Tacoma Bassoon Quartet

Hussein Al-Nasrawi (b. 1991)       
     Walt Disney World 50th Anniversary Celebration Improvisation (2021)

           https://youtu.be/_dRjN25pEvE

      Christmas Medley (2021)

          https://youtu.be/8GLNcBmNUDI

          Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano