Onward, in hope, World Music! 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 and/or related subjects, as well as re past Tuesday (c. 300-500 words each) --
handwritten or typed -- as pdf or jpg attachment to mus21stc@gmail.com, by 6pm, this Friday, October 29).
Information for Quiz 10 (Music c. 1920-1940) below second picture
(Marital Bliss?) -- 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... 5pm, later today, Wednesday, October 27... sending out Zoom invite via group email approx. 15-30 minutes prior!...
Mark Alburger - Music c. 1920-1940 (2. Berg to Copland)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnPrgWFuhqI&list=PLtV-SdP8TZceAgn3oKT-0Z8j18DO8PUBu
Just about all the featured composers have connections to the following topics
of worldwid import (or previously cited ones), so feel free to make connections and
focus on whatever intrigues!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_score
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassicism#Later_Neoclassicism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_music
Details of the 6 constituent videos below...
Mark Alburger - Music c. 1920-1940 (2a. Berg to Prokofiev)
Alban Berg, King Oliver, Ernst Toch, Max Steiner, Jelly Roll Morton, Sergei Prokofiev
https://youtu.be/OnPrgWFuhqI
Mark Alburger - Music c. 1920-1940 (2b. Prokofiev to Hindemith)
Sergei Prokofiev, Ferde Grofe, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Paul Hindemith
https://youtu.be/0FV-60cF0VY
Mark Alburger - Music c. 1920-1940 (2c. Orff to Gershwin)
Carl Orff, Henry Cowell, Adolph Deutsch, George Gershwin
https://youtu.be/6tyXX4djxC0
Mark Alburger - Music c. 1920-1940 (2d. Gershwin to Poulenc)
George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Francis Poulenc
https://youtu.be/IXCxbGZ9jn8
Mark Alburger - Music c. 1920-1940 (2e. Poulenc to Copland)
Francis Poulenc, George Antheil, Aaron Copland
https://youtu.be/V6-h5ifvYv8
Mark Alburger - Music c. 1920-1940 (2f. Copland)
Aaron Copland
https://youtu.be/uQkyte7Obeg
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[Are we having fun yet?, perhaps its time for
Quiz 10 -- Music c. 1920-1940... Take-Home Worksheet, actually...
emailing you a blank copy (alternately, you can always make your own
hand-written version): due as returned email pdf / jpg attachment by
6pm, Friday, October 29, to mus21stc@gmail.com]
Happy Halloween and beyond!
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
Russia (Igor Stravinsky, 1882-1971) - Les Noces (The Wedding), 1923 (Eastern Europe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNBDJNHeZmo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_noces
Brazil (Heitor Villa-Lobos, 1887-1959) - Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2 (1930):
V. Little Train of the Brazilian Countryman (Southern America)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C3elyR43NU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heitor_Villa-Lobos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachianas_Brasileiras
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Brazil
Louisiana (Jelly Roll Morton, 1890-1938) - Dead Man Blues
(1926, Northern America / Western Africa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXbJSzj27JA
(Original Recording)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSoEHUKr7VU
(Wynton Marsalis Performance)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_Roll_Morton
http://people.virginia.edu/~skd9r/MUSI212_new/diagrams/dead_man_blues.html
(N.B. re Original Recording)
Indonesia (Bali, Wayan Limbak, 1897-2003) - Ketjak Dance, 1966 (Eastern Asia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qJADwogOUw
(Classic recording)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCUdEnGvYFk
(Live)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayan_Limbak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kecak
Egypt (Umm Kulthum, 1898-1975)) - Enta Omri (You Are My Life), 1967 (Northern Africa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGHpBOt5sE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umm_Kulthum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Egypt
District of Columbia (Duke Ellington, 1899-1974) - Bunny Hop Mambo, 1954 (Eastern America)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-53ex_W90A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington
https://www.eclassical.com/the-bunny-hop-mambo.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mambo_(dance)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_jazz
