July 14 - Front and Center
Blitzing through Bartok, Stravinsky, and Webern -- with sidebars on Varese and Berg -- and on to
C (Lydian) Blues Scale
C Eb F (F#) G Bb C
Four Types of C Chords
C Augmented C Major C minor C diminished
G # G G Gb
E E Eb Eb
C C C C
Typical Chord Pattern in 12-Bar Blues
I
1 2 3 4
IV I
5 6 7 8
V IV I
9 10 11 12
Listening
Sergei Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf
Darius Milhaud - La Creation du Monde: Fugato
(The Creation of the World)
Paul Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber: Turandot
George Gershwin - Porgy and Bess: Summertime
Aaron Copland - Music for the Theatre: IV. Burlesque
Dmitri Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 2: I
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Third session in Jon Bendich's class,
and
three
times
before
the wheel:
there,
over to Carol's for paper-grading, Opus Project, and lunch,
home to finish edit, over indeed more warring videos, of Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1881 Grete, Op. 232, No. 3, on the 134th day of summer, high down two to 89 (69 days 80+) -- 79 / 69 in Pleasant Hill, Pinole...