January 29 - Greeting Prelude
Quiz 3 for the Theoreticians, the musical examples drawn from Native American Music, Gregorian Chant, and Early Medieval Organa +
D Dorian and Minor, E Phrygian, and the Beethoven Symphony No. 9: IV. "Ode to Joy" theme, transposed to C --
the
vehicular
transition
there
a
detouric
one
through
Benicia,
and
homeward
course,
beyond
680,
a
second
instance
of
petrol at $1.99 / gal.
First day of summer,
that is,
a high of 70 --
beginning composition re Portraits of ___ (Some Multiple of 3) Women: IX. Olivia, after the painting of Roland March, thinking also of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Character, Late Renaissance / Early Baroque, and Ottorino Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite I: II --
as a Cheshire incarnation mysteriously lingers in the Wonderlandic vicinity...