Saturday, July 24, 2021

July 24 - The Opus Project presents Opus 90


THE OPUS PROJECT

presents
OPUS 90
Sound at the Beginning of the Funnel
7pm, Saturday, July 24, 2021
Zoom Everywhere!


                
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)    
     Piano Sonata No. 27 in E Minor, Op 90 (1814)
          I. Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck
              (“With liveliness and with feeling and expression throughout”) - Exposition

          Mark Alburger, Orchestration
   
     
     Piano Sonata No. 31 in Ab Major, Op. 110 (1821)
           III. Adagio ma non troppo

          https://youtu.be/y2VVnz9oO24

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)       
     4 Impromptus, Op. 90 (1827)
           II. Eb Major
                      
          Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)       
     Symphony No. 4 ("Italian"), Op. 90 (1833)
           I. Allegro vivace

           Mark Alburger, Sound File College, as part of
                The Well-Tempered World, Op. 214 (2013)
                     XIX. A Major
                          W.A. Mozart Violn Concerto No. 5, Clarinet Concerto
                          Beethoven Symphony 7, Schubert "Trout" Quintet
                          Mendelssohn Symphony 4, Chopin Prelude in A
                          Franck Violin Sonata
                          Copland Appalachian Spring
                          Shostakovich Symphony 15

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)       
     6 Poems of N. Lenau and Requiem, Op. 90 (1850)
          III. Kommmen und Scheiden

          https://youtu.be/_wt6WNTsf0E

          Megan Cullen, Soprano    
          Appcompanist

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)       
     Symphony No. 3, Op. 90 (1883)
          I. Allegro con brio

          Mark Alburger, Sound File College, as part of
               The Well-Tempered World, Op. 214 (2013)
                    XI. F Major
                         Vivaldi Four Seasons Autumn
                         J.S. Bach Brandenburg 1, Invention
                         Beethoven Symphony 6, 8
                         Brahms German Requiem, Symphony 3
                         Dvorak - American Quartet
                         Ravel - String Quartet
                         Gershwin - Piano Concerto
                         Shostakovich - Piano Concerto 2

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)       
     6 Songs, Op. 90 (1917)
          I. Norden

          https://youtu.be/Oj2uUbGMXWU

          Megan Cullen, Soprano
                          
          Appcompanist

Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)       
    La retardée, Op. 90 (1937)

          https://youtu.be/Sd7l1Q5aKIk
                        
         Megan Cullen, Piano


Joaquin Turina (1882-1949)       
     Homenaje a Lope de Vega, Op. 90 ()
          I. Cuando tan hermosa os miro

          https://youtu.be/Fp9mmXQBwUM
                        
          Megan Cullen, Soprano
          Appcompanist



Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)       
     Ebony Concerto (1945)
          II. Andante

          Mark Alburger, re-interpreted as
               Quadruple Concerto, Op. 83 (1999)
                    II. Andante

George Gershwin (1898-1937)
     Novelette in Fourths (1919)

          Lemuel Sumardy, Piano
    
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_RQbl_cfxk

John Cage (1912-1992)           
     4'33" (1952)
           I. 30" [33"]

          Everyone!

George Barboteu (1924-2006)       
     Cinq Pieces Poetiques pour cor en fa (1974)
          I.  Andante cantabile
          II.  Mouvement tres libre
          III. Mouvement tres large
          IV.  Allegro vivo
          V.   Mouvement tres large

                      

          Bob Satterford, Horn

Michael Kimbell (b. 1946)           
     Three Sonnets from the Portuguese, Op. 1 (1965)
          III.  Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meHzVM9O5mA

          Alec Jeong, Tenor
          Asako Tsumagari, Piano 
        

Mark Alburger (b. 1957)       
     Diocletian, A Pagan Opera, Op. 90 (2000, after Edward Gibbon and Thomas Betterton)
          VI.  Speak, Flame

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEsxMGvuz74&list=PL3FACBB320E94DCA7&index=28
                        
          Maria Mikheyenko / Mark Alburger (Edward Gibbon)
          Alexandra Jerinic (Diocletian)
          Kimberly Anderman (Drusilla)
          Annemarie Ballinger
          Alison Collins
          Kat Cornelius
          Robin Costa
          EL
          Indre Viskontas
          Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera                                
          Harriet March Page, Artistic Director

     Coast Range Summer, Op. 351 (2021)

          Mark Alburger, Electronics

Hussein Al-Nasrawi (b. 1991)       
     Firenze Wonders Improvisation (2021)

          https://youtu.be/HWY0BNMEqPo

          Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano


Thursday, July 22, 2021

July 22 - High on Music, Life, and the Universe


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

Positively delightful 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 and Quiz 11-- 6pm, Friday, July 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]


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

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

July 21 - Light and Sound, Signifying Something


Let the light shine!  Hoping these better days continue!

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

Tuesday, July 20, 2021

July 20 - Wrinkles in Time


Greetings in still 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, by 6pm, Friday, July 23... which is, of course, also turn-in time for this last week o' Notes (c. 300-500 words)] and t'other Quiz!


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)

Monday, July 19, 2021

July 19 - Ka-Blue-y


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, July 23 (Amazing the last week of the semester -- boo and whoo hoo!), as attached pdf or jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com...

Thursday, July 15, 2021

July 15 - Red State

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 all of week (c. 300-500 words each) -- handwritten or typed -- as pdf or jpg attachment to mus21stc@gmail.com, by 6pm, this Friday, July 16).  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.

And, by the way, evidently Insite did not deliver all of last group emails this past Tuesday morning. 
If you did not hear from me re Quiz 9, feel free to request another copy.
Standard email is probably more reliable, so, if you'd like to send me an alternative address, that would be great!

Also planning on Zoom 10 for all interested parties -- a tenth optional online get-together...
Today at 11:30am!
... sending out Zoom invite via group email approx. 30 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

***


[Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev, concerned about authoritarianism (as we still are, given recent publications), 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, July 16, 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

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

July 14 - Illuminating

Ah, Mid-Summer!  Hope you are having 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 at least 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, July 16, to mus21stc@gmail.com.

It's been great hearing and seeing you!  Planning on a tenth offical Zoom get-together tomorrow-- 11:30am, sending out email invite c. 30 minutes prior...