September 4 - Gather Round


Third session with the Music Appreciation folks, first time in the lecture / recital hall


(since we are c. 57, rather than 40), clicking in to norms re last summer, distributing the previous week's quiz via pianos, etc., and looking towards Quiz 3 material...


D Dorian
 D   E    F   G   A    B  C  D
[Do Re Me Fa Sol La Te Do]

D Minor [Bb Key Signature!]
 D   E    F    G   A  Bb C  D
[Do Re Me Fa Sol Le Te Do] 

E Phrygian
 E    F    G   A   B   C  D   E
[Do Ra Me Fa Sol Le Te Do]





Number of Steps in Intervals from Perfect Unison to Perfect 5th

P1    =  0 Steps
m2   =  1/2 Step
M2  =   1 Step
m3   =  1 1/2 Steps
M3   =  2
P4    =  2 1/2
Tritone = 3
P5     =  3 1/2


5 Items in a Mass Ordinary, with Translations and Typical Forms
Kyrie - Lord Have Mercy - ABA (Binary)
Gloria - Glory - Through-Composed
Credo - Creed - Through-Composed
Sanctus - Holy - ABCB (Verse-Chorus)
Agnus Dei - Lamb of God - AB (Binary)


Listening
[7540] Gregorian Chant - Kyrie IV
[7682] Morocco - Lala Fatima
[8070] Latin Lyric - Song of the Ass (Orientis Partibus)
[8085] Orkney Islands - Hymn to St. Magnus
[8100] India - Raga Maru Bihag
[8133] Leonin - Hec Dies (This Is the Day) 

 ***


Composition thereafter,


and as directly possible,


to


Vacaville Community Medical Center,


for an appointment with


Tim Nguyen ("Wen") -- a re-prescription of medication and


imaging


(i.e. x-raying).


Beyond, picking up the pills,


then off to


UC


Davis


Library


for The Opus Project presents Opus 33 (8pm, Saturday, September 26, Diablo Valley College Music, Pleasant Hill, CA)


research, specifically --

Hermann Reutter - Saul, Op. 33 (1928)
Samuel Barber - Nocturne, Op. 33 (1956)
Benjamin Britten - Peter Grimes, Op. 33 (1945)
Alberto Ginastera - String Concerto, Op. 33 (1965)


 -- returning


homeward


for score-study (pages 6, 1,  6 respectively) and continue editing (page 7) as follows

Sergei Prokofiev - The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33: March
Benjamin Britten - Peter Grimes, Op. 33: Act III - Interlude V
John Lennon - All You Need Is Love
Mark Alburger - Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel:
     1888 Alma Maria Schindler, Op. 232, No. 10


Some of above over videos (they definitely came to stay)


with Harriet, on the 191st day of summer, high back up 2 to 84 (last three days ABA 84-82-84... 121 episodes 80+) -- highs 77 / 80 in Pleasant Hill and Davis...