Dancing the night away with the Historians, looking ahead to more musical mirth...
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Forwards (Prime)
Backwards (Retrograde)
Upside-Down (Inversion)
Backwards Upside-Down (Retrograde-Inversion)
Instrumentation of Three Types of Jazz Bands
Dixieland (New Orleans Style)
1-2 Clarinets
1-2 Trumpets
Trombone
Banjo
Piano
Tuba / Bass
Drums
Swing (Big Band)
4-5 Saxophones
4-5 Trumpets
4-5 Trombones
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums
Bebop (Bop)
Saxophone
Trumpet
Trombone
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums
Listening
[8910] Samuel Barber - Second Essay for Orchestra
[8912] Conlon Nancarrow - Study No. 1
[8913] Benjamin Britten - War Requiem: Dies Irae
[8918] Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story: Cool
[8925] Pierr Boulez - Le Marteau sans Maitre (The Masterless Hammer): I.
[8929] George Crumb - Black Angels
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The
day
also
features
the
atypical
morning
commute
down
680
Diabloway,
Piano class,
afternoon
turnaround
(rather
circuitously
for
errands), composition and score-study (page 10 Six Enneads: IV, systems 7 Alban Berg's Wozzeck: Act I, Scene 3, Lullaby, and 3 for Dmitri Shostakovich's Scherzo in Eb and Samuel Barber's Music for a Scene from Shelley),
and
the
reverse
back
for the evening's festivities on the 116th day of summer, high 89.
