Second-to-last session with the Music Historians, proceeding from Samuel Barber to George Crumb (virtually all the prepared listenings have been from the Cultivated Tradition, though various Vernaculars have been evoked as well), looking towards music by composers born between 1930 and 60 (the best we can do, vis a vis recent selections, given the brevity of the summer semester... w/r/t weeks, as opposed to length of class sessions, which have, nevertheless, gone remarkably well)...
Two Classic Rock Progressions
Please Mr. Postman
C Am F G
I vi IV V
Stairway to Heaven
Cm Bb Ab
i bVII bVI
Three Types of Rock Bands
Piano Band
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums
Guitar Band
Lead Guitar
Rhythm Guitar
Bass
Drums
Power Trio
Guitar
Bass
Drums
Three Later Styles of Jazz
Cool
Free
Fusion
Listening
[1935] Terry Riley - In C
[1936] Steve Reich - Tehillim [Psalms]: I
[1937] Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach: Train
[1947] John Adams - Nixon in China: I Am the Wife of Mao-Tse Tung
[1957] Tan Dun - Ghost Opera
[1957] Mark Alburger - Camino Real: Block 9
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Before this,
a foggy-than-normal commute,
though still some a bit of blue-and-sunshine-and- warmth:
121st of summer,
high 93
(42nd 90+),
though only a barely-high-sun 70 in Berkeley, and, after
Piano,
there
we
go,
attempting
to
round up Benjamin Britten's Friday Afternoons, Op. 7, and Kurt Weill's String Quartet No. 1, Op. 8. But, alas, only partially successful... the Britten is awol, and officially determined such with the assistence of a helpful librarian, first such situation encountered, in all these years.
Homeward,
compose
a second page of Six Enneads: V over
videos with Harriet,
blitz back to
Diablo, returning late to send out parts for Dmitri Shostakovich's Scherzo in Eb Major to Opus Project Orchestra members, plus same re Arnold Schoenberg and Bela Bartok String Quartets No. 1, Op. 7, and Anton Webern Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, a la performers.
