October 17 - The Illumined Hour


And


off


to


paper-grading


and


DVC, joining the morning Music Historians for Romanticism, and definitely beyond, as 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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A


sunny


and


varied


commute


homeward


on


the


216th


day


of


summer,


high


75 -- composing a second page for Portraits of ___(Some Multiple of 3) Women: VII. "She" Who Must Be Obeyed,


over reasonably enlightening video.