Write a Four-Note Passage...
Forwards (Prime)
(Example: BEAD)
Backwards (Retrograde)
(Example: DAEB)
Upside-Down (Inversion)
(Example: BFCG - B to E in forwards [prime] is up a 4th, so here we go from B down a 4th to F, etc.)
Backwards Upside-Down (Retrograde Inversion)
(Example: GCFB)
Instrumentation of Three Styles of Jazz Band
Dixieland (New Orleans Style, 1920's)
[1-2] Clarinet[s]
[1-2] Trumpet[s]
Trombone
Banjo
Piano
Tuba
Drums
Swing (Big Band, 1930-1945)
[4-5] Saxophones
[4-5] Trumpets
[4-5] Trombones
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums
Bebop (Bop, 1945-1960)
Saxophone
Trumpet
Trombone
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums
Listening
Samuel Barber - Third Essay for Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QygOoHTBKg
John Cage - Prelude to Meditation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg50a5Z-WSg
Alberto Ginastera - Glosses on Themes of Pablo (Pau) Cassals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aJ9bcOcpPs
[8918] Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story: Cool
[8925] Pierre Boulez - Le Marteau sans Maitre (The Masterless Hammer): I
George Crumb - A Haunted Landscape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWa4eXg-Jdo
***
With no less than six minor health issues,
finally decide to head over to the
Community Medical Center to make an appointment, and, lo and behold, just before leaving, discover that Obamacare has just kicked in again -- Hallelujah! But for what duration?...
Onward, scheduling an appointment for tomorrow,
then
down
the
freeways
to
paper-grading at
Magoos,
and the
hard-working late-afternoon / early-evening class.
Return to
errands and composition page 6 24 Tone Preludes: I. Dances of the Devilettes, on the 17th day of fall, high 63 locally and in Pleasant Hill (ABBA of 63-57-57-63 last four days)...
