October 14 - Into Each Life


Lowest high temperature (72),


since May 3 (70) --


the 213th day of summer


brightening with


Dictation and Board Harmony on Igor Stravinsky's Firebird: Finale


with the Theoreticians. 


Afternoon suspect


paper-grading,


concluding


inconclusively


round


about


Elephant


Bar,


a look-see in the Lab and Ensemble Room, and proceeding on to the


Music Historians, where we proceed nicely from the Romantic to the below...


C Whole-Tone Scale

C D E F# G# A# C


Write Your Own 12-Tone Row

(Chromatic Scale in a New Order)


Two Typical New-Music Ensembles

Pierrot
Flute
Clarinet
Piano
Violin
Cello



Histoire
Clarinet
Bassoon
Trumpet
Trombone
Percussion
Violin
Bass


Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Three Creative Periods - and Typical Music Written

Russian - Ballets
Neoclassic - Ballets, Concertos, Operas, Symphonies
Serial - Ballets, Memorial Pieces


Listening

[8872] Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Wasps: March Past of the Kitchen Utensils
[8874] Arnold Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire: VII. The Sick Moon
[8874] Charles Ives - Symphony No. 4: I
[8881] Bela Bartok - The Miraculous Mandarin: Opening
[8882] Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring: Dances of the Adolescents
[8885] Alban Berg - Wozzeck: Act I, Scene III - March and Lullaby

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Composition pertaining to page 7 Portraits of ___(Some Multiple of Threee Women): XVII. Bridget, upon return.