April 19 - And More


Write Your Own Contoured Four-Note Passage

Forwards (Prime) 
Backwards (Retrograde)
Upside-Down (Inversion)
Backwards Upside-Down (Retrograde Inversion)


List (or Draw, Above) the Instrumentation of Three Styles of Jazz

Dixieland (New Orleans Style)
1-2 Clarinet(s)
1-2 Trumpet(s)
Trombone
Banjo
Piano
Tuba or Bass
Drums

Swing (Big Band)
4-5 Saxophones
4-5 Trumpets
4-5 Trombones
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums

Bebop (Bop)
Saxophone
Trumpet
Trombone
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums


Listening

[8910] Samuel Barber - Second Essay for Orchestra

[8912] John Cage - Sonata No. 5 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vbvhU22uAM
Benjamin Britten - Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3WQkhptmVA
Leonard Bernstein - Chichester Psalms: II

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

[8929] George Crumb - Black Angels: I-V

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Up


early,


out,


across,


down,


elevation,


latitude,


longitude,


sun,


curvature,


all


there


is,


to the Diablo Valley College Theoreticians,



variously for Dictation / Keyboard-Solfege / Board-Harmony on Paul McCartney's Yesterday,


Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar: Hosanna, and


Roger Waters's Dark Side of the Moon: Brain Damage,


followed by more excellent Student Compositions.


Thereafter,


delightful celebratory lunch at Claim Jumper,


and



return for paper-grading,


before the evening class.



Late-night piano-vocal and


visual libretto to


Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232: LIX. 1937 - Franz Werfel / Carl Zuckmayer / Franz vn Papen / Oskar Kokoschka (Alma's Farewell Party)


over videos +


compose Variations on The Romanesca, Op. 251: XLIX. Philip Glass (b. 1937) - Einstein on the Beach (1975).  44th day of summer, high again 87...