Week
9,
Day
2,
for the Diablo Valley
College Theoreticians, and we do get around to the Dictation / Keyboard-Solfege / Board Harmony: the first four bars of Scott Joplin's The Entertainer. Before this a bit of Bela Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 1: I and Igor Stravinsky's Firebird: Infernal Dance of Prince Kaschai. After, officially finish up Round 2 of imaginative Student Compositions,
then break for extended paper-grading, at BJ's and the library,
re-discovering the spectacular views
east and south,
on an
all-abloom
afternoon (now the eighth of summer, and the highest yet of the year, at 75 on the home front and abroad [!]).
Evening class proceeds from Wagner to Joplin, fast forwarding to 20th-Century Music I.
C Whole-Tone Scale
C D E F# G# A# C
C Chords
Caug / C / Cm / Cdim
G# / G / G / Gb
E E Eb Eb
C C C C
Three Periods after Baroque and Before Present (and Dates)
Classical (1750-1825)
Romantic (1825-1900)
20th-Century (1900-2000)
Igor Stravinsky - Dates, Three Periods (and Typical Music Produced)
(1882-1972)
Russian (Ballets)
Neoclassic (Ballets, Concertos, Operas, Symphonies)
Serial (Ballets, Memorial Pieces)
Listening
[8872] Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 4: I
[8874] Arnold Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire: I. Moondrunk
[8874] Charles Ives - Symphony No. 4: I
[8881] Bela Bartok - Piano Concerto No. 1: I
[8882] Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring: Dances of the Adolescents
[8883] Anton Webern - Cantata No. 1: I
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Thereafter, with Doug back the bistro for coffee (Owen is called home soon after arrival), then late-night composition of page 3 The Decameron - Third Day: X. Rustico Teaches Alibech How to Put the Devil in Hell.
