Thursday, October 21, 2021

October 21 - Setting the Recordings Askew


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

If unable to attend class, 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 by 6pm, Friday, October 22...  Oh, and Extra-Credit Concert next day: 7pm Saturday, October 23... Zoom invite sent c. 1-2 hours prior...

Happy Rain-Returning-to-Bay-Area (vastly prefer sunshine, but we need the precip)!

Hard to believe that Era 10, 20th-Century II, is almost here!

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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 could be better?!) -- emailing you all a blank copy -- due as returned email pdf / jpg attachment by 6pm, Friday, October 23, 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)