April 28 - Top of the Day

Greetings, Music Appreciation!  Here's the Lecture-Playlist du jour, and, below second picture, Information for Quiz 13 (20th-Cenury Music V) -- Notes (c. 300-500 words) on former and filled-in version of latter (emailing pdf blank copy presently) due by 6pm, this Friday, April 30, to mus21stc@gmail.com...

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music V (2. Waters to Sting)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CioCqQh7OSc&list=PLtV-SdP8TZceHSiGdZx77NTYQawaLYT9Q

Videos detailed as...

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music V (2a. Waters)
Roger Waters
https://youtu.be/CioCqQh7OSc

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music V (2b. Waters to Marley)
Roger Waters, Michael Nyman, Jimmy Page, Charles Amirkhanian, Bob Marley
https://youtu.be/PrERrST4L9A

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music V (2c. Fripp to Adams)
Robert Fripp, Howard Shore, John Adams
https://youtu.be/W_OXmThXv58

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music V (2d. I. Anderson to John)
Ian Anderson, David Bowie, Elton John
https://youtu.be/J189qCE81AY

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music V (2e. I. John to Lloyd Webber)
Elton John, Brian Eno, Andrew Lloyd Webber
https://youtu.be/O6KfElCn_e8

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music V (2f. Lloyd Webber to Sting)
Lloyd Webber, Stephen Schwartz, Sting
https://youtu.be/Ziui12B1G9M

***

[Variations on Themes, for Quiz 13, as a worksheet, due 6pm, Friday, April 30, as pdf / jpg attachment, to mus21stc@gmail.com]


Write a Minimalist Passage (in Bass Clef)

(Any series of notes featuring repetition)



Three C Root-Position 7th Chords (in Bass Clef)

Triads (T) and 7th Intervals in 3 typical 7th Chords

                                           Triad - Major (M) or minor (m)       7th Interval (M7 or m7)

Major 7th Chord   =                         MT                          +                   M7

Dominant 7th Chord   =                    MT                          +                  m7

Minor 7th Chord    =                         mT                            +                 m7



Three Stylistic Periods after the Baroque and before Present - and Dates

 Classical                1750-1825

 Romantic               1825-1900

 20th-Century         1900-2000



Listening 


Sting - Every Breath You Take

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

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

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


Mark Alburger - Camino Real: Block 9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2dJSGkCrxA

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

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


Tan Dun - Ghost Opera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-IoqQIJzME

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Dun:_Ghost_Opera


Hans Zimmer - Interstellar: Where We're Going

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_(soundtrack)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGoJrE0HqqE


Prince - Darling Nikki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA_FqxZLSMk
(video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnm-u4Xq9ag
(coda)

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

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


Erling Wold - Sub Pontio Pilato: Credo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PCkw3yNZDQ (@ 1:33:04)

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

http://www.erlingwold.com/listofworks.html

April 26 - Glowing

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music V (1. Glass to Waters)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOh5T99SFN0&list=PLtV-SdP8TZccZqim8PCR5mJaSp99iY3lW

Welcome to Week 13!

Lecture Notes (c. 300- 500 words) due 6pm, Friday, April 30,
to mus21stc@gmail.com.

Constituent parts of above, below...

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music V (1a. Glass)
Philip Glass
https://youtu.be/zOh5T99SFN0

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music V (1b. Glass, Corigliano)
Philip Glass, John Corigliano
https://youtu.be/gDOt4tYZN44

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music V (1c. Andriessen, Lennon)
Louis Andriessen, John Lennon
https://youtu.be/AyApArAeVKI
(N.B. Lennon Help blocked)

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music V (1d. Lennon)
John Lennon
https://youtu.be/_1kQz5JT4oE
(N.B. Lennon A Day in the Life blocked)

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music V (1e. Zappa to Summers)
Frank Zappa, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Jimi Hendrix, Daniel Lentz, Paul McCartney, Andy Summers
https://youtu.be/79QzhKnV0Go
(N.B. Dylan All Along the Watchtower blocked)

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music V (1f. G. Harrison to Waters)
George Harrison, Mick Jagger, Roger Waters
https://youtu.be/q2QsCPrKxzU

April 24 - The Opus Project presents Opus 88

THE OPUS PROJECT
presents
OPUS 88
Keys to the Universe
7pm, Saturday, April 24, 2021
Zoom Everywhere!

               
William Byrd (1539-1623)       
     Come to Me, Grief, Forever (1588)

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

         Kat Walsh, Voice and Bassoon Quartet

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)       
     Keyboard Sonata in G, K. 80 (c. 1738)

          https://youtu.be/9wkCoWrD-cI

         Mark Alburger, Orchestrated Realization



Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)   
     Das Glück der Freundschaft (The Happiness of Friendship), Op. 88 (1803)

          https://youtu.be/MfJm2cVb7KI

          Megan Cullen, Soprano
          Appcompanist

     Piano Sonata No. 31 in Ab Major, Op. 110 (1821)
           I. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo

          https://youtu.be/wNOKM5HfgRI

           Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)       
     An die Musik (To Music), Op. 88, No. 4

          https://youtu.be/hM6mr7zxiZ8

          Megan Cullen, Soprano
          Appcompanist

Carl Reinecke (1824-1910)       
     Madchenlieder, Op. 88 (1865)
          I. Rundgesang im Mai (May Chant)

          https://youtu.be/odWv7xg5k4Y

          Megan Cullen, Piano

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)       
     Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88 (1889)
          I. Allegro con brio
          II. Adagio
          III. Allegretto grazioso - Molto vivace
          IV. Allegro ma non troppo

          https://youtu.be/N_i_67tuiU0

          Mark Alburger, Electronics, re-interpreted as
               Genre Implosions No. 3 ("Time Cyclone"), Op. 167 (2008)
                    IV. Romantic
                        (1841) Dvorak Symphony 8
                       
Erik Meyer-Helmund (1861-1932)   
     Four Pieces, Op. 88 (1890)
          III. Valse Noble

          https://youtu.be/1WQc0HZsg8s

          Megan Cullen, Piano

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)       
     3 Songs, Op. 88 (1942)
          II. Blick vom Oberen Belvedere (View from the Upper Belvedere Palace)

          https://youtu.be/JpAXoMEtJH0

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)       
     6 Songs, Op. 88 (1917)
          VI. Blommans Ode (The Flowers Destiny)

          https://youtu.be/hb8SwzxF658

          Megan Cullen, Soprano
          Appcompanist

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)      
     Menuetto, Op. 14 (1878)

          https://youtu.be/l3kTYwSNuec

Enrique Granados (1867-1916)       
     12 Spanish Dances (1890)
          V. Andaluza

          https://youtu.be/JIu8oLRoGuM
                       
           Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano

Max Reger (1873-1916)           
     4 Songs, Op. 88 (1905)
          I. Notturno

          https://youtu.be/ZfxtCGsNCXg

          Megan Cullen, Soprano
          Appcompanist

Bela Bartok (1881-1945)       
     Piano Sonata No. 1, BB 88, Sz 80 (1926)
         II. Sostenuto e pesante

         Mark Alburger, Orchestration

Joaquin Turina (1882-1949)       
     Concierto sin Orquesta, Op. 88 (1935)
          I. Moderato (Exposition)

          https://youtu.be/ujI-NYws2uY
                       
          Megan Cullen, Piano

Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)       
     Fantasy for Horn, Op. 88 (1966)

          https://youtu.be/tDNpT-KwgNE

         Bob Satterford, Horn

George Crumb (b. 1929)
     Makrokosmos, Volume 1 (1972)
          XII. Spiral Galaxy

          Mark Alburger, Electronics, re-interpreted as
               Genre Implosions No. 3 ("Time Cyclone"), Op. 167 (2008)
                    V.  20th-Century
                        (1929) Crumb Makrokosmos 1 12 [Double Spiral]


Michael Kimbell (b. 1946)       
     Three Sonnets from the Portuguese, Op. 1 (1965)
          II. I Lived with Visions

          https://youtu.be/xI_kmocihBA

         Alec Jeong, Tenor
         Asako Tsumagari, Piano  
       
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)       
     Antigone, Op. 88 (2000, after Sophocles and Jean Anouilh)
          V. Where Is Your Pain
          VII. I Can't Sleep
          VIII. It's Like This
          IX. Spring Is Wound
          X. Come On Now, Miss

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaW9Mw3X7aA&list=PL3FACBB320E94DCA7&index=6
                       
          Letitia C. Page, Antigone
          Micah Epps, Creon
          Michael Desnoyers, Haemon / Messenger / Guard III
          Kimberly Anderman, Ismene
          Meghan Dibble, Nurse / Eurydice
          Maria Mikheyenko, Guard I
          EL, Guard II
          Antigone's Handmaid - Alix Jerinic
          Dalyte Kodzis, Ismene's Handmaid / Antigone Dancer
          William Loney, Oedipus / Haemon Dancer
          Lisa McHenry, Page
          Terence Bennan, The Puppetmaster
          Adam Broner, The Fixer
          Harriet March Page, Artistic Director
          Mark Alburger, Music Director
          Keisuke Nakagoshi, Piano

Doug Michael (b. 1962)            
     Klusters for piano and tape

          https://youtu.be/Tln8ph6G4V0

           Doug Michael, Electronics

Rob Peters (b. 1969)           
     Suite for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 88 (1998)
          II. Andante comodo

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoAoxM-AxsI

          Michael Kimbell, Clarinet
          Elizabeth Lee, Piano

Hussein Al-Nasrawi (b. 1991)
     Star Wars Improvisation (2021)

          https://youtu.be/LV9Q62vsnqY

          Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano

April 21 - Justice, Love, Peace

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (2. Riley to Glass)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S7enCsoyQU&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcdfQQy7sCQugeVfcxJxj43c

A playlist often positive, as...

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (2a. Riley)
Terry Riley
https://youtu.be/4S7enCsoyQU

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (2b. Riley to Young)
Terry Riley, Peter Schickele, La Monte Young
https://youtu.be/4w11uIfZ1Ck

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (2c. Young to Reich)
La Monte Young, Richard Berry, Steve Reich
https://youtu.be/m5Mo8a_YEZk

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (2d. Reich)
Steve Reich
https://youtu.be/_qHOkoTUdgg

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (2e. Reich to Glass)
Steve Reich, Billy Roberts, Philip Glass
https://youtu.be/DUz1Q5C_Wg8

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (2f. Glass)
Philip Glass
https://youtu.be/dXfMf78a488

***

[Terry Riley, serene, at least here, for Quiz 12 (20th-Century Music IV), worksheet due -- along w/ all notes -- 6pm, Friday, April 23, to mus21stc@gmail.com]


Two Classic-Rock Progressions

Three Typical Rock Bands

Piano Band

Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums

Guitar Band
Lead Guitar
Rhythm Guitar
Bass
Drums

Power Trio
Guitar
Bass
Drums


Three Types of Jazz After Bebop

Cool
Free
Fusion



Listening


Terry Riley - In C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbTn79x-mrI

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecd8UJ-3wGU (practice version of score!)


Steve Reich - Octet (Eight Lines)
https://www.google.com/search?q=Steve+Reich+Octet&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1 (with score!)

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

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


Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi: Vessels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc1vu4sVYdA (from the film!)

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

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


John Lennon - A Day in the Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNsCeOV4GM (video from filming of the orchestral recording!)

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

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


Roger Waters - Shine On You Crazy Diamond: I-V

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine_On_You_Crazy_Diamond
N.B. Wikipedia's accounting of I-V differs from the sheet music, below...

     [Parts I-II are shown complete]

     [Parts III-IV are multi-page, the latter beginning with keyboard solo]

     [Part V begins with the entrance of voices]


John Adams - Nixon in China: I Am the Wife of Mao Tse-Tung

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoxaunpyA0g (@ 45:07)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams_(composer)

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

April 19 - Spotlight on the Recent

Let the light shine!  Better days ahead as vaccinations progress!

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (1. Boulez to Riley)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbpYpf1MnCA&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcd-QeUFqiKNG4TUCN6Yz3PJ

Details of above, below...

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (1a. Boulez, Schuller)
Pierre Boulez, Gunther Schuller
https://youtu.be/JbpYpf1MnCA

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (1b. Schuller to Fried)
Gunther Schuller, Chuck Berry, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Gerald Fried
https://youtu.be/_gw60Jr1zcM

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (1c. Bock to Crumb)
Jerry Bock, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Karlheinz Stockhausen, George Crumb
https://youtu.be/gEoX8_aeMeE

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (1d. Crumb)
George Crumb
https://youtu.be/AILCs-wxC-M

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (1e. Crumb, Goldsmith)
George Crumb, Jerry Goldsmith
https://youtu.be/Uzdnvlldqm4

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music IV (1f. Goldsmith to Riley)
Jerry Goldsmith, Edwin London, Ornette Coleman, Jerry Herman, Mauricio Kagel, Lalo Schifren,
Krzysztof Penderecki, Mike Stoller, Terry Riley
https://youtu.be/WaVsX08mT7E

April 14 - Pensive

Greetings in uncertain-but-hopeful times!

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (2. Hovhaness to Berio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3QopGwr80g&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcci9Ll1MgpdChLtcPoTQIvf

The constinuent parts...

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (2a. Hovhaness to Cage)
Alan Hovhaness, Robert Johnson, Jan Koetsier, Gian Carlo Menotti, John Cage
https://youtu.be/t3QopGwr80g

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (2b. Cage)
John Cage
https://youtu.be/MN-QNdc5Ut4

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (2c. Cage to Britten)
John Cage, Conlon Nancarrow, Benjamin Britten
https://youtu.be/lkSFYugn0Xw

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (2d. Britten to Bernstein)
Benjamin Britten, Witold Lutoslawski, Willie Dixon, Carlos Surinach, Alberto Ginastera,
Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Leonard Bernstein
https://youtu.be/xPlLr--bQl0

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (2e. Bernstein to Arnold)
Leonard Bernstein, George Rochberg, Bobby Troup, Alexander Courage, Malcolm Arnold
https://youtu.be/2acYaT_6dBM

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (2f. Piazzolla to Berio)
Astor Piazzolla, Nelson Riddle, Elmer Bernstein, Neal Hefti, Iannis Xenakis, Gyorgy Ligeti
Paul Desmond, Maurice Jarre, Henry Mancini, Leonard Rosenman, Luciano Berio
https://youtu.be/IXtPQAa-PGk

***

[John Cage, in Zen complacency about not being featured on Quiz 11 (20th-Century Music III) -- take-home worksheet, due back as an attached pdf or jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com (or my school email), by 6pm, Friday, April 16... which is, of course, also turn-in time for Notes (c. 300-500 words)]


Write your own 4-Note Passage (Prime), followed by its Retrograde (Backwards), 
Inversion (Upside-Down), and Retrograde-Inversion (Backwards Upside-Down)

Example:

Prime: DEAG
Retrograde: GADE (the above backwards)
Inversion: DCGA (start with first note of Prime,
                                    inverting intervals... D to E is a 2nd up, in Prime
                                                               so, D to C is a 2nd down, in Inversion, etc.
Retrograde-Inversion: AGCD (backwards of the Inversion)
     

Instrumentation of Three Styles of Jazz (Oldest to Most Recent - c. 1920 - 1950)

             Dixieland                             Swing                          Bebop
             (New-Orleans Style)            (Big Band)                  (Bop)

[Horns]  [1-2] Clarinet(s)                  [4-5] Saxophones        Saxophone
              [1-2] Trumpet(s)                  [4-5] Trumpets           Trumpet
               Trombone                           [4-5] Trombones         Trombone

Rhythm  Banjo                                  Guitar                          Guitar
               Piano                                   Piano                          Piano
               Bass [Tuba]                         Bass                            Bass
               Drums                                  Drums                        Drums



Listening


Samuel Barber - Second Essay for Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34NThn0cZE8

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Essay_for_Orchestra_(Barber)


Alan Hovhaness - And God Created Great Whales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgESUPnCQ5o

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

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


Benjamin Britten - War Requiem: II. Dies Irae

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwBEtfXXsvU (@ 16:30)
(Britten conducts!)

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

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


Leonard Bernstein - Chichester Psalms: II. Psalm 23 / 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1axCTkIfP9Q (@ 3:40)

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

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


Pierre Boulez - Le Marteau sans Maitre (The Masterless Hammer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fmr08vTFDs

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

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


George Crumb - Black Angels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etHtCVeU4-I

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Angels_(Crumb)

April 12 - Blue Man Non-Toupe

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (1. Copland to Hovhaness)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcbm9QvOGO0&list=PLtV-SdP8TZccLCMecbIxT385TP9N3Fcb2

Consisting of...

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (1a. Copland to Partch)
Aaron Copland, Kurt Weill, Louis Armstrong, Jester Hairston, Frederick Loewe, Harry Partch
https://youtu.be/Bcbm9QvOGO0

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (1b. Partch to Khachaturian)
Harry Partch, Joaquin Rodrigo, Richard Rodgers, Meredith Willson, Aram Khachaturian
https://youtu.be/HPC4-yh8cc4

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (1c. Khachaturian to Shostakovich)
Aram Khachaturian, Luigi Dallapiccola, Joe Garland, Dmitri Kabalevsky,
Fats Waller, Josephine Baker, Dmitri Shostakovich
https://youtu.be/ro_WW1w_8RQ

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (1d. Shostakovich)
Dmitri Shostakovich
https://youtu.be/DqA4xS0qabo

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (1e. Shostakovich to Messiaen)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Cab Calloway, Miklos Rozsa, Olivier Messiaen
https://youtu.be/W2uYhA7Yv2s
(N.B. Shostakovich Symphony No. 15 blocked!)

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music III (1f. Messiaen to Hovhaness)
Olivier Messiaen, Samuel Barber, T-Bone Walker, Bernard Herrmann, Alan Hovhaness
https://youtu.be/OU15yhAxNEs

Well, we're getting close!  Your perceptive personal notes (c. 300 - 500 words) by 6pm, Friday, April 16 (I'll be getting my first Moderna shot -- whoo hoo!), as attached pdf or jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com...

April 7 - Seen and Heard and Read All Over

Here's the next Online Lecture (playlist of 6 linked c. 15-minute original videos on YouTube).  Looking forward to your notes on this one, as well as this past Monday (c. 300-500 words each) -- handwritten or typed -- as pdf or jpg attachment to mus21stc@gmail.com (or school email), by 6pm, this Friday, April 9).  Many Happy Returns!

Information for Quiz 10 (20th-Century Music II) below second picture -- emailing y'all blank pdf of same, w/ identical due date above.

Also planning on Zoom 10 for all interested parties -- a tenth optional online get-together...
Today at 11am!
... sending out Zoom invite via group email approx. 15 minutes previous!...

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (2. Berg to Copland)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnPrgWFuhqI&list=PLtV-SdP8TZceAgn3oKT-0Z8j18DO8PUBu

Details of the 6 constituent parts below...

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (2a. Berg to Prokofiev)
Alban Berg, King Oliver, Ernst Toch, Max Steiner, Jelly Roll Morton, Sergei Prokofiev
https://youtu.be/OnPrgWFuhqI

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (2b. Prokofiev to Hindemith)
Sergei Prokofiev, Ferde Grofe, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Paul Hindemith
https://youtu.be/0FV-60cF0VY

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (2c. Orff to Gershwin)
Carl Orff, Henry Cowell, Adolph Deutsch, George Gershwin
https://youtu.be/6tyXX4djxC0

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (2d. Gershwin to Poulenc)
George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Francis Poulenc
https://youtu.be/IXCxbGZ9jn8

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (2e. Poulenc to Copland)
Francis Poulenc, George Antheil, Aaron Copland
https://youtu.be/V6-h5ifvYv8

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (2f. Copland)
Aaron Copland
https://youtu.be/uQkyte7Obeg

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[Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev, concerned about totalitarianism, but not Quiz 10 -- 20th-Century Music II... Take-Home Worksheet, actually... emailing you all a blank copy (alternately, you can always make your own hand-written version): due as returned email pdf / jpg attachment by 6pm, Friday, April 9, to mus21stc@gmail.com]

 
C (Lydian) Blues Scale / Four C Chords

Chord Pattern in a Typical 12-Bar Blues


Chord           I
Measure       1    2    3    4

                     IV        I
                     5    6    7   8

                     V   IV   I
                     9   10   11   12



Listening


Sergei Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf

https://www.teachertube.com/video/peter-and-the-wolf-245162
(N.B. this is the Walt Disney version - not quite Prokofiev's original!)

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

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


George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2_yRwPPIEc

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

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

http://imslp.org/wiki/Rhapsody_in_Blue_(Gershwin,_George)


Francis Poulenc - Double Piano Concerto: I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V87wGyfUQiQ

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerto_for_Two_Pianos_and_Orchestra_(Poulenc)

http://imslp.org/wiki/Concerto_for_2_Pianos,_FP_61_(Poulenc,_Francis)


Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVahuS9hk_s

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

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


Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5: I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTqsU7tQW48

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._5_(Shostakovich)


Olivier Messiaen - Turangalila Symphonie: IV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PjyCpRKDrk (@20:36)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turangal%C3%AEla-Symphonie

April 5 - Pouring Over

Ah, Spring Break!  Hope you had a great one!  And, ah, yes, for the next video playlist (6 linked c. 15-minute short original movies) presentation on YouTube...

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (1. Stravinsky to Berg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Eesd9I2lY&list=PLtV-SdP8TZccIfXPzbcsgLY17VLdXodI2

Particulars as follows...

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (1a. Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky
https://youtu.be/15Eesd9I2lY

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (1b. Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky
https://youtu.be/u2gCnEkiXW0

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (1c. Stravinsky to Varese)
Igor Stravinsky, Josef Matthias Hauer, Edgar Varese
https://youtu.be/J2s4G3vwYVE
(N.B. Stravinsky - The Flood - Blocked)

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (1d. Varese / Webern)
Edgar Varese, Anton Webern
https://youtu.be/_CGBiDG9QNY

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (1e. Webern / Berg)
Anton Webern, Alban Berg
https://youtu.be/6qx0im5yD3Q

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (1f. Berg)
Alban Berg
https://youtu.be/5yDZjKVE4sI

Same deal re lecture notes... 300-500 words, should be c. a page, feel free to just listen and watch while jotting down your thoughts... handwritten or typed, emailing attached pdf or jpg of same by 6pm, Friday, April 9, to mus21stc@gmail.com.

It's been great hearing and seeing you!  Planning on a tenth Zoom get-together this Wednesday-- 11am, sending out email invite c. 15 minutes prior...