November 13 - Another Exciting Day


Well, it's OK to catch up with sleep during the break, right?  Otherwise, hopefully another engagin session, as we proceed from Jelly Roll Morton and Sergei Prokofiev, to Joe Garland, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Olivier Messiaen to


Quiz 10 and beyond, as below...






Write a Your Own Four-Note Passage [example set - please do not use]

Forwards (Prime) [CEDF - 4 notes, non-sequential] 

Backwards (Retrograde) [FDEC - reverse of above]

Upside-Down (Inversion) [CABG - as C-E is up a 3rd, C-A is down a 3rd, etc...]

Backwards Upside-Down (Retrograde Inversion) [GBAC - reverse of Inversion]




Instrumentation of Three Typical Jazz Bands (Diagram Above or List Below)

Dixieland [New Orleans Style]
[1-2] Clarinet[s]
[1-2] Trumpet[s]
Trombone
Banjo
Piano
Tuba / Bass
Drums

Swing [Big Band]
[4-5] Saxophones
[4-5] Trumpets
[4-5] Trombones
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums

Bebop
Saxophone
Trumpet
Trombone
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums


Listening

[8910] Samuel Barber - Second Essay for Orchestra 

[8912] John Cage - Sonata No. 5 

[8913] Benjamin Britten - Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
 
[8918] Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story: Cool

[8925] Pierre Boulez - Le Marteau sans Maitre (The Masterless Hammer): I

[8929] George Crumb - Black Angels

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More wonderful music,


in an interval beginning with the daily update of 21ST-CENTURY MUSIC,


an easy


commute,


paper-grading and compositiion locally,


and


concluding


with


a


video run, more composition re page 4 The Decameron - Fifth Day, Op. 247: Novel I - Cimon, by Loving, Waxes Wise, Wins Iphegenia, Op. 247, No. 1, editing sheet 6 Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1892 - Sylt, Op. 232, No. 14 ,


over


various


videos,





with Harriet and Megan, on the 11th day of fall, high again 66 (65 in Pleasant Hill)....