MARK ALBURGER, 2021: December 2021

Friday, December 31, 2021

December 31 - Covering the Situation

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

Sunday, December 12, 2021

December 12 - Happy 90th!

Happy

Birthday,

Mom!

You just keep getting better and better!

Love,

Mark and Harriet

Thursday, December 9, 2021

[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!

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

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

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

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)

Monday, December 6, 2021

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

Thursday, December 2, 2021

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

December 3 - Fresh Voices XXI

GOAT HALL PRODUCTIONS
San Francisco Cabaret Opera
presents
FRESH VOICES XXI
Seriously?!...
7pm, Friday, December 3, 2021
Zoom Meeting Everywhere!

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
     Candide (1956 /1982, Voltaire, 1694-1778 / Hugh Wheeler, 1912-1987)
          XIX. Words, Words, Words (Martin's Laughing Song)

          Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano
          Mark Alburger - Bernstein Orchestrations, Op. 366 (2021)

David Gossage (b. c. 1963)
     The Song of Wandering Aengus, 1995 (William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939)

          Anna Mizera, Mezzo-Soprano
          Allan Crossman, Piano

Jake Heggie (b. 1961)
      Of Gods and Cats (2000, Gavin Geoffrey Dillard, b. 1954)
I. In the Beginning
   Natural Selection (1997, Gini Savage)
II. Animal Passion

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3G5vYGNf4M

          Meghan Dibble, Mezzo-Soprano

John Bilotta (b. 1948)
     The Song of the Hermit Thrush (2014, Walt Whitman, 1819-1892,
          When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, 1865)

          https://youtu.be/S5zHVY9roNw

          Sarita Cannon, Soprano
      Divisa Ensemble
               Carmen Lemoine, Flute
               Adrienne Malley, Oboe
               Emily Packard, Violin;
               Stephanie Ng, Viola
               Michael Graham, Cello

John Bilotta and Jostein Stalheim (b. 1960)
     Rosetta's Stone (2014, Oded Ben-Horin and John F. McGrew))
          Act II - Cafe Scene (Stalheim and McGrew)

          https://youtu.be/nB9QwscWcxk?t=1498

          Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera
               Cass Panuska, Rosetta
               Wayne Wong, Al
               Jill Wagoner, Cortex
               Sarita Cannon, Thalamus
               Alexis Lane Jensen, Hippocampus
               Kassidy Mayernik, Amygdala
               Jamie Samantha Lee, Cerebellum
               Harriet March Page, Brain Stem and Artistic Director
               Rachel Condry, Clarinet
               Robin Reynolds, Cello
               Feeona Lee Jones, Piano
               Mark Alburger, Music Director and Conductor

John Beeman (b. 1954
     Ishi (Carla Brooke)
          Act II, Scene 1

          https://youtu.be/SZWFv_9DbXg

          Ellen Leslie, Lily Lena
          Robert Vann, Ishi
          Paul Murray, T.T. Waterman
          Chorus
               Gabrielle Goozée-Nichols
               Nicole Takesono
               Adam Flowers
               John Kendall Bailey
           Keisuke Nakagoshi, Piano

Irving Fine (1914-1962)
     Childhood Fables for Grownups (1958, Gertrude Norman, 1848-1943)
          III. Lenny, the Leopard
          IV. The Frog and the Snake

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os2qErHfJ0A

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI9aQGUVZQo

          Meghan Dibble, Mezzo-Soprano

Sheli Nan (b. 1961)
     The Last Gesture (2019)

          https://youtu.be/0b12QZ2_p9o

          Amy Foote, Soprano
          Ari Bocian, Cello
         Libby Kardontchik, Piano

Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
     The Decameron, Op. 367 (2021, Giovanni Boccaccio, 1313-1375)
          Fifth Day, Op. 247 (2015) - Three George Crumb Tropes
                Novel III. Pietro Boccamazza runs away with Agnolella, and encounters a gang of robbers
                   (Madrigals, Book II [1962]: III. Cabalito Negro - Little Black Horse)
                Novel VII. Pietro Teodoro, being enamoured of Violante, daughter of Messer Amerigo,
                    his lord, gets her with child, and is sentenced to the gallows
                    (Black Angels [1970]: I-V, VII, X)
      Novel VIII. Nastagio degli Onesti, loving a damsel of the Traversari family,
                    by lavish expenditure gains not her love
                    (Songs, Drones, and Refrains of Death [1968]: III. Cancion de Jinete - Song of the Rider)

          Mark Alburger, Electronics

December 2 - With a Keen Sense of Urgency

Music Appreciation! Second and final Review Lecture-Playlist! Notes (if not in class) due (as well, as relevant, First Review Lecture notes) 6pm, Friday, December 3.... Exam I-II information (really Quiz/Worksheets 15-16) posted next Tuesday and Thursday... Woo-hoo!

Mark Alburger - Music History Review (2. Stravinsky to Say)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeR7ynHBz7Q&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcexNXSFEVyPhbrRr454ckbu

The 6 videos are...

Mark Alburger - Igor Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms: I
https://youtu.be/OeR7ynHBz7Q

Mark Alburger - Darius Milhaud - La Creation du Monde: Fugato
https://youtu.be/gR6LvN7bdKQ

Mark Alburger - Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story: Cool
https://youtu.be/lXNgG7k-IRQ
(N.B. Leonard Bernstein West Side Story: Overture, Maria, America, Cool Blocked)

Mark Alburger - John Williams - Star Wars: Main Title
https://youtu.be/WjbdtPkI36M

Mark Alburger - Mark Alburger - Camino Real: Block 10
https://youtu.be/dWKBvO5AUAA

Mark Alburger - Fazil Say - Symphony No. 3 ("Universe")
https://youtu.be/n7IdVTT5kT4

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

December 1 - Snap to It

World Music! Second and final Review Lecture-Playlist! Notes due (as well First Review Lecture notes) 6pm, Friday, December 3.... Exam I-II information (really Quiz/Worksheets 15-16) posted next Monday and Wednesday... Yes!

Mark Alburger - World Music Review (2. Stravinsky to Say)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeR7ynHBz7Q&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcexNXSFEVyPhbrRr454ckbu

As usual, feel free to write on above, or do your own research re topics via Wikipedia / YouTube / etc...

Some particularly relevant links, re the final, include...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Of the 6 videos -- 2, 5, and 6 are most relevant...

Mark Alburger - Igor Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms: I
https://youtu.be/OeR7ynHBz7Q

Mark Alburger - Darius Milhaud - La Creation du Monde: Fugato
https://youtu.be/gR6LvN7bdKQ

Mark Alburger - Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story: Cool
https://youtu.be/lXNgG7k-IRQ
(N.B. Leonard Bernstein West Side Story: Overture, Maria, America, Cool Blocked)

Mark Alburger - John Williams - Star Wars: Main Title
https://youtu.be/WjbdtPkI36M

Mark Alburger - Mark Alburger - Camino Real: Block 10
https://youtu.be/dWKBvO5AUAA

Mark Alburger - Fazil Say - Symphony No. 3 ("Universe")
https://youtu.be/n7IdVTT5kT4