March 11 - High Times


C Whole Tone Scale
C D E F# G# A# C

Write Your Own 12-Tone Row
(Chromatic Scale in a re-ordering)

Two Typical New-Music Ensembles

Pierrot
Flute
Clarinet
Piano
Violin
Cello

Histoire
Clarinet
Bassoon
Trumpet
Trombone
Percussion
Violin
Bass

Three Compositional Periods (and Types of Music Composed) for
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Russian - Ballets
Neoclassic - Ballets, Concertos, Operas, Symphonies
Serial - Ballets, Memorial Pieces

Listening
[8872] Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 4: I
[8874] Charles Ives - Symphony No. 4: I
[8874] Arnold Schoenberg - A Survivor from Warsaw
[8874] Bela Bartok - The Miraculous Mandarin: Introduction
[8882] Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring: Dances of the Adolescents
[8885] Alban Berg - Wozzeck: Act I, Scene 3, March and Lullaby

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Music Literature proceeds from Giuseppe Verdi and Johannes Brahms to Jan Sibelius, Erik Satie, and Scott Joplin -- looking ahead as above.


Out after with Owen, Tim, and Sal... returning to compose page 9 of 371 Chorale Cadences on the 19th day of summer, high again 70.


Earlier,


the


commute


south,


Music Theory with short videos re Charles Ives's Serenity and Three Quarter-Tone Piano Pieces and Arnold Schoenberg's Six Little Piano Pieces, a brief spin on 12-Tone Music, Igor Stravinsky's Firebird: Finale for Dictation and Board Harmony -- the latter nicely identified by Myles, + Cheyenne's imaginative synthetic-scale variants of I-IV-V as part of Round 2 Student Compositions.


Owen's class


and a


quick return


to put out the Call for Scores re this Spring's San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra concert (8pm, June 7, Old First Presbyterian Church, SF)


and grade most --


but not all --


papers.


Return


in


the


welcome


post-


Daylight


Savings


evening


light.