C Whole-Tone Scale
C D E F# G# A# C
C Chords
Caug (C-E-G#), C (C-E-G), Cm (C-Eb-G), Cdim (C-Eb-Gb)
Two Types of New-Music Ensemble
Pierrot (first used in Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire [Lunatic Clown])
Flute
Clarinet
Violin
Cello
Piano
Histoire (first used in Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat [The Story of a Soldier])
Clarinet
Bassoon
Trumpet
Trombone
Violin
Bass
Drums
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Three Stylistic Periods and Types of Music Written
Russian - Ballets
Neoclassic - Ballets, Concertos, Operas, Symphonies
Serial - Ballets, Memorial Pieces
Listening
[8872[ Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Wasps: Overture
[8874] Charles Ives - Symphony No. 4: I
[8874] Arnold Schoenberg - A Survivor from Warsaw
[8881] Bela Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra: II
[8882] Igor Stravinsky - Petrushka: Russian Dance
[8885] Alban Berg - Wozzeck: Act I, Scene 3 - March and Lullaby
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Music Literature proceed from Johannes Brahms through Jan Sibelius. Earlier, in Theory, the revelations include excerpts from Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw, Maurice Ravel's Bolero, Bela Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 1, and Igor Stravinsky's Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring -- with Dictation / Board Harmony on the first of these three ballets. Home mid-day for paper-grading and class preparation, Harriet arriving from a job during the interval. Home relatively early after it all, beginning composition of Communist Manifesto, Op. 220. High 82, on the 204th day of summer...
