Fourth session with the Fall 2015 Music Theoreticians, Dictation on Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"): IV - "Ode to Joy" section (transposed from D to C), doubling as Keyboard-Solfege, and, eventually,
Board-Harmonized Medievally in Parallel Perfect Fifths (having cut to the chase with the Prime / Retrograde / Inversion / Retrograde-Inversion exercise, continuing imaginative Student Compositon 1's,
ending up with Quiz 2 (musical examples drawn from various Ancient Musics),
with keyboard tasks including F Lydian and Major,
and the singing / playing of Sol Bloom's Snake Charmer.
Before this,
the scenic,
if
circuitous,
early
morning;
after, composition and
a ridiculous nomenclatural errand,
lunch with
Carol, paper-grading and Opus planning,
returning via DVC for
The Opus Project Presents Opus 32 (8pm, Saturday, August 29, Diablo Valley College Music, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA) logistical matters (ably assisted by Associate Music Director Michael Stubblefield),
then
homeward
to continue editing page 2 Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1887 Prince Rudolf, Op. 232, No. 9,
over measured video,
with Megan and Harriet, on the 178th day of summer, high up two to a flaming 102 (tying June 25-26, July 1, 4) -- 19 / 71 / 113 days 100 / 90 / 80+ -- Pleasant Hill / Pinole: 99, 81...
