October 9 - Enlightenment


Up and out very early, grading papers, before (at last)


the rendezvous with the Music Historians, for matters Renaissancian, and beyond...


D Major Scale (Key Signature - Two Sharps - F#, C#)

D E F# G A B C# D


A Major Scale (Key Signature - Three Sharps - F#, C#, G#)

A B C# D E F# G# A


E Major Scale (Key Signature - Four Sharps - F#, C#, G#, D#)

E F# G# A B C# D# E


E Minor Scale (Key Signature - One Sharp - F#)

E F# G A B C D E


Three Typical Genres of Baroque Music (and Typical Subsections)

Opera
Overture
Recitative
Aria (Duet, Trio, Quartet, etc.)
Chorus
(etc.)

Suite
Overture
Dance I
Dance II
(etc.)

Concerto
Fast
Slow
Fast


J.S. Bach's Dates, Three Stylistic Periods, and Types of Music Written)

(1685-1750)

Weimar - Organ
Cothen - Instrumental
Leipzig - Vocal


Listening

[8567] Claudio Monteverdi - Vespers: I. Deus in Adjutorium (God in the House)

[8585] Heinrich Schutz - Saul, Saul

[8659] Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas: Dido's Lament (When I Am Laid in Earth)

[8678] Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria: I. Gloria

[8685] J.S. Bach - Organ Fugue in G Minor ("Little")

[8685] G.F. Handel - Messiah: Hallelujah

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Dress rehearsal for San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra Tales of the Wanderers (8pm, Saturday, October 10, Performance at Park Presidio UMC, SF): Martha Stoddard Horse,


Allan Crossman Impromptoodle,


Mark Alburger Sejong the Great,


Lisa Scola Prosek Lucaria, Michael Kimbell Golden Gate Barcarole,


Stardust A la recherche du temps perdue.


Before this,


the very early commute, teaching, printing more music for the evening rehearsal,


brief


afternoon at home,


leaving


again,


via


37 West,


101


South,


and


1 --


camping out at Cafe Coco briefly, and proceeding to the practice.


Home late, composing page 4 of Four Michaels (Zodiac Concerto, after The Book of Jude), Op. 245, on the 231st day of summer, high 93 (94 days 90+, 151 80-or-more)...