Welcome to Week 29 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode. I am posting this on Jan. 11, and the 12th is the 100th anniversary of Feldman's birth, so let's commemorate that by listening to either The King of Denmark or Rothko Chapel.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores and other helpful information. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 29.

Anonymous music from the Medieval era
Lauda sion - score
Stabat mater - score
Dies irae - score
Pange lingua gloriosi corporis mysterium - score
Salve virgo/Ave gloriosa Mater/Domino
Pucelete/Je languis/Domino - score
Sumer is icumen in - score

Petrus de Cruce
Aucuns vont souvent/Amor qui cor/Kyrie - score

Gustav Mahler
Adagio movement from unfinished Symphony No. 10 - score
     recommended recordings: Rattle/Bournemouth SInf.; Bernstein/NY Philharmonic

Morton Feldman
Projection I - look at the score here for a sense of how Feldman's indeterminate pieces of this era work.
Projection II
Projection III
Projection IV
Projection V
The King of Denmark - look at this video for more understanding of how these grid scores work. Also, look for any video performance on YouTube - this is a good piece to see visually because it's for a single percussionist with a lot of instruments.
Rothko Chapel
      recommended recording: Brett/UC-Berkeley choirs

Richard Wagner
Tannhauser - score - libretto and synopsis
     recommended recording: conducted by Solti
     recommended video: conducted by Levine
If you don't listen to the whole opera, at least listen to the Overture and Venusberg music, conducted by Mehta.

The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground and Nico
White Light/White Heat
The Velvet Underground

Welcome to Week 27 of The Works! There is no podcast episode this week, and this post is coming late in the week, but the next post, with a podcast episode, will come soon.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores where available. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 27.

Morton Feldman
The Viola in My Life 1 (for viola and chamber ensemble)
The Viola in My Life 2 (for viola and chamber ensemble)
The Viola in My Life 3 (for viola and piano)
The Viola in My Life IV (for viola and orchestra)

Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto - score
     recommended recording: Jacqueline du Pre with London Symphony/Barbirolli

Johannes Ciconia
O rosa bella - score
Sus une fontayne
Le ray au soleyl
Una panthera - score
Ut te per omnes - score
O Padua, sidus praeclarum - score
Petrum Marcello Venetum - score
Doctorum principem - score
O felix templum - score
Gloria (score) and Credo “Regina Gloriosa”
Gloria (another one of five settings)

Thelonious Monk
Selections from Blue Note singles and 10" LPs (1947-51), collected under “Genius of Modern Music”
Selections from Prestige 10" LPs (1952-54)
The Unique Thelonious Monk (Riverside 12" LP, 1956)