Ta-da! Today's playlist immediately below, and Information for Quiz 9 (my how we are moving along!... 20th-Century Music I) just under the second picture...
Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music I (2. Ives to Stravinsky)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZsZjAqSY0M&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcc0fKR06hwkGfIh_GAnsMT_
Details...
Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music I (2a. Ives / Schoenberg)
Charles Ives, Arnold Schoenberg
https://youtu.be/GZsZjAqSY0M
Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music I (2b. Schoenberg)
Arnold Schoenberg
https://youtu.be/7FfSDlCBomo
Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music I (2c. Ravel / A. Mahler)
Maurice Ravel, Alma Mahler
https://youtu.be/ecIiv7w6w4w
Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music I (2d. Respighi / Bartok)
Ottorino Respighi, Bela Bartok
https://youtu.be/_2hoS1zLzfE
Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music I (2e. Bartok)
Bela Bartok
https://youtu.be/MzQ_U-cDB1g
Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music I (2f. Bartok to Stravinsky)
Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly, Igor Stravinsky
https://youtu.be/08LXoSTfgIY
Please take notes as you listen and watch -- and send same (c. 300-500 words, doesn't need to be fancy, any spellings / grammar OK, would be great if you write at least a little on all composers above, and do spell them correctly!) as attached pdfs / jpgs to mus21stc@gmail.com (or my school email) by 6pm, Friday, March 26...
Happy upcoming Spring Break, incidentally! Hope to see you on Zoom today, 11am, Wednesday, March 24.
No school, of course, next week... we'll be starting up again w/ Week 10, 20th-Century II, on April 5!
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[Ralph Vaughan Williams's great-uncle Charles Darwin (in parody above), going ape over the music of Quiz 9 (20th-Century I). Take-Home Worksheet (what else can there be, at present?!) -- emailing you all a blank copy -- due as returned email pdf / jpg attachment by 6pm, Friday, March 26, to mus21stc@gmail.com...
C Whole-Tone Scale
(Please write your own) 12-Tone Row
Any re-ordering of an ascending (or descending) Chromatic Scale --
i.e. C C# D D# etc. in a new (mixed-up) order...
Two New-Music Ensembles
Pierrot [after Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire (The Moonstruck, or Mad Puppet)]
Flute
Clarinet
Piano
Violin
Cello
Histoire [after Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat (The Story of a Soldier)]
Clarinet
Bassoon
Trumpet
Trombone
Percussion
Violin
Bass
Igor Stravinsky's Birth-Death Dates, Three Stylistic Periods - Types of Music Written
1882-1971
Modernist (Post-Impressionist, Primitive, Russian) - Ballets
Neoclassic - Ballets, Concertos, Operas, Symphonies
Serial - Ballets, Memorial Pieces
Listening
Please describe the following -- personally and thoroughly enough so that I know you've listened to each!
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 4: I [1934]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YuUMoqJESU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Vaughan_Williams)
https://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.4_in_F_minor_(Vaughan_Williams%2C_Ralph)
Charles Ives - Symphony No. 4: I [1916 / 1924]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xXv55ARtsM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Ives)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12j1wdKE4zU
Bela Bartok - Piano Concerto No. 1: I [1926]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMwH3011tTk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Béla_Bartók
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No._1_(Bart%C3%B3k)
https://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No.1%2C_Sz.83_(Bart%C3%B3k%2C_B%C3%A9la)
Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring: Part I [1913]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP42C-4zL3w
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring
http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring_(Stravinsky,_Igor)
Anton Webern - Five Pieces for Orchestra [1913]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reqqQ-kBJQ0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Webern
https://www.allmusic.com/composition/pieces-5-for-orchestra-op-10-mc0002362388
http://imslp.org/wiki/5_Pieces_for_Orchestra,_Op.10_(Webern,_Anton)
Alban Berg - Wozzeck: Act I, Scene 3 - March and Lullaby [1922]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdinmlIdnYw (@16:15)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alban_Berg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wozzeck
http://imslp.org/wiki/Wozzeck%2C_Op.7_(Berg%2C_Alban)
