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...