March 26 - First for Everything
Chords and Scales of Quiz 5 (referencing the Renaissance) for the
early-morning
Diablo Valley College Theorists (unknown at present if present situation will be continuing, nevertheless Composition 2 -- eight bars, two notes at once, at least at some point -- assigned, due April 7); substitute teaching in Owen's class (descending chromatic transition in W.A. Mozart's Requiem: Confutatis Maledictis);
Quiz 11 for the mid-day Theoreticians (examples drawn from the music of Bela Bartok, Duke Ellington, Jester Hairston, Olivier Messiaen, and Richard Rodgers).
Tour-de-edifice-musique,
paper-grading with Carol
over lunch,
then
homeward
to prepare publication of the flute-piano Mary Variations: X. Blue Chrome Mary,
on the 30th day of summer, high 82, same as a week ago, 5th at 80+, the identical apex in Pleasant Hill...