Write Your Own Four-Note Passage on a Staff
[please do not use the examples below in brackets]
Forwards (Prime) [ABCD]
Backwards (Retrograde) [DCBA]
Upside-Down (Inversion) [AGFE]
Backwards-Upside-Down (Retrograde-Inversion) [EFGA]
Three Types of Jazz Band
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 - Adagio for Strings
[8912] John Cage - Sonata No. 5
[8913] Benjamin Britten - War Requiem: Dies Irae
[8913] Conlon Nancarrow - Study No. 1
[8918] Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story: Cool
[8925] Pierre Boulez - Le Marteau Sans Maitre: I
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The evening class proceeds from Jelly Roll Morton's Dead Man Blues through Olivier Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony: IV, looking ahead to above --
while the Theory crew much earlier finishes the second half of the Richard Rodgers Sound of Music: Do-Re-Mi.
Morning
commute
in
clearing
coastal
fog
down
the
680
corridor to
Diablo Valley College, lunch,
afternoon
reverse
in
increasingly
dramatic
meterological conditions,
the
post-sun
return, and 11th-hour composition page 14 Communist Manifesto round out the proceedings.
