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
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...
