Romanticism Quiz for the Music Historians, and beyond to the dawn of the 20th Century...
C Whole-Tone Scale
C D E F# G# A# C
12-Tone Scale
Any re-ordering of a Chromatic Scale
Two Typical New-Music Chamber Ensembles
Pierrot (after Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire [Moonstruck Pierrot])
Flute
Clarinet
Piano
Violin
Cello
Histoire (after Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat [A Soldier's Tale])
Clarinet
Bassoon
Trumpet
Trombone
Percussion
Violin
Bass
Igor Stravinsky Birth / Death Dates and Three Stylistic Periods - Types of Music Written
1882-1971
Nationalist / Exotic (Russian / Post-Impressionist / Primitive / Modernist) - Ballets
Neoclassic - Ballets, Concertos, Operas, Symphonies
Serial - Ballets, Memorial Pieces
Listening
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 4: I
Charles Ives - Symphony No. 4: I
Arnold Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire: I. Moondrunk
Bela Bartok - Piano Concerto No. 1: I
Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring: Dances of the Adolescents
Alban Berg - Three Pieces for Orchestra: I
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Ah, the differences of a day and hour, zipping there and
back, with the intervening class as above, beginning the editing of Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1890 - Franz Vikor Werfel, Op. 232, No. 12, on the 251st day of summer, high 87 (85 in Pleasant Hill)...
heading out again in the evening
to take in Sarah Ruhl's
Dead Man's Cell Phone at Solano College (first time on the main campus, after 15 years residency in the county),
with Megan and Harriet as part of the Stage Crew -- a course they are taking, and a required one, at that, for Harriet's Theatre Major -- great show, with quixotic music...
Homeward
lateward...
