December 5 - At Ease
Romping through a playlist of relatively recent music, including
Sting - King of Pain / Every Breath You Take
Oliver Knussen - Violin Concerto
Mark Alburger - Psalm 6 / The 12 Fingers / San Fernando Hub / Camino Real
Tan Dun - Ghost Dance
Prince - Darling Nikki
Erling Wold - Sub Pontio Pilato
Bono - With or Without You
Steven Clark - Amok Time
Thom Yorke - Morning Bell
and listening / looking ahead, as below...
Write Four Bars of Music (make it beautiful / fun / interesting)
Write a Short Essay on a Favorite Piece of Music (composer/performer - name of composition)
What makes it great? Use our typical vocabulary, in five or more sentences...
Listening
[8970] Michael Cooke - Ha Meaggel
[YouTube] Thomas Ades - Totentanz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G8ySgSayK8
Mason Bates - Warehouse Medicine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G8ySgSayK8
Steven Price - Gravity: Debris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVZFUT38Yck
Feona Lee Jones - Morning Mst
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmIceL21v0Q
[8986] Lady Gaga - Poker Face
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Finish Jonah, Op. 258 -- 36 pages total -- with completion of IV. Out of His Gourd (11 systems)
and score-study a second page of Aaron Copland Billy the Kid: Gun Battle,
on the incredible 31st day of fall, high 57 (Pinole, 58; Pleasant Hill, 56)...