November 14 - The Writing on the Wall


C Whole Tone Scale

C D E F# G# A# C


Write Your Own 12-Tone Row

(Chromatic Scale in a New Order)


Two New-Music Ensembles

Pierrot
Flute
Clarinet
Piano
Violin
Cello

Histoire
Clarinet
Bassoon
Trumpet
Trombone
Percussion
Violin
Bass


Dates, Three Style Periods, and Types of Music Written for...

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

National / Exotic - Ballets

Neoclassic - Ballets, Concertos, Operas, Symphonies

Serial - Ballets, Memorial Pieces


Listening

[8872] Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 4: I

[8874] Charles Ives - Symphony No. 4: I

[8874] Arnold Schoenberg - A Survivor from Warsaw

[YouTube] Bela Bartok - Hungarian Peasant Songs for Orchestra: I. Theme and Variations

[YouTube] Igor Stravinsky - Eight Instrumental Miniatures

[YouTube] Karol Szymanowski - King Roger: Beginning

***


Gettng to class on time is definitely an adventure,


since the day begins with George and Bette


kindly providing


shuttle service to


Philadelphia International Airport,


where the security check is cleared


and


flight accomplished --  in view of Tinicum Island,


Commodore Barry Bridge,


Maryland,


and


ultimately all the wonders of


Southern California


and


Los


Angeles,


touching


down


and


disembarking


in


a


rather


retro


fashion. 


Repast


again at


Gladstones


and


a


welcome


return


to the


marvels


of


the


Bay


Area,


charging inland


through the


Coast Ranges


to meet up


with the


Music Historians at last. 


Could this 237th day of summer


(high for the third-day-in-a-row 75...

Swarthmore / Philadelphia, 60
Los Angeles, 88
Oakland, 66
Pleasant Hill, 73)

be the last warm day of the season?