December 11 - Full House

Ah, contemporary times --

including works by Sting, Oliver Knussen, Mark Alburger, Tan Dun, Prince, and Erling Wold... charging ahead to just about the present as...

Write Four Bars of Music

Make it interesting / beautiful / fun ...


Write a Short Essay About a Favorite Piece

Composer / Performer and Name of Composition

What makes the music great?  Use our typical vocabulary in five or more sentences


Listening

[8970] Michael Cooke - Ha Meaggel (One Who Draws Circles)

[YouTube] Thomas Ades - Totentanz

[YouTube] Steven Price - Gravity: Debris

[YouTube] Mason Bates - Warehouse Medicine

[YouTube] Mehdi Hossein - Baluch

[8986] Lady Gaga - Poker Face

***

Well,

there's

music

all

the

way

there

and

back --

high

60

(60-63-60 last three days, 59 Pleasant Hill; .02 inches rain -- 2.59 since July 1),

35th

day

of

fall,

editing

page 6 Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1894 - Schule, Op. 232, No. 16...

December 10 - Stop, Look, Listen

Trying

to

find

one's

way

in the dark...

'tis not easy!

Finding initial light in the Exam, Session I, with the Theoreticians,

then coffee and Opus work with Carol,

financial 

machinations,

and

then

homeward

in

vastly

improved

conditions,

and

eventually back out again with Harriet to

Larry Grossman's Scrooge in Love at 42nd Moon in San Francisco, returning late to edit page 5 of Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1894 - Schule, Op. 232, No. 16 -- on the 34th day of fall, high 63, with .34 inches of rain, for a total of 2.57 since the beginning of the rainfall year (July 1)...

December 9 - Enlightened

Another shining day (33rd of fall, high 60) at home, editing page 4 Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1894 - Schule, Op. 232, No. 16...

December 8 - Troopers

Tramp, tramp, tramp --

that's the sound --

down highways and byways to the Diablo Valley College

Music Theoreticians: third and final review, before beginning the Exam next session... For the present, double Dictation / Board Harmony on Kurt Cobain's Heart-Shaped Box and Thom Yorke's Kid A: Morning Bell,

followed by more exquisite Student

Compositions of Round 4,

lingering to subsitute-teach Michael Stubblefield's class (last week's Howard Shore - Lord of the Rings: Shire).  32nd day of fall (high 55 locally, 58 Pleasant Hill), editing page 3 Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1894 - Schule, Op. 232, No. 16 and

composing tenth system The Decameron - Fifth Day, Op. 247: Novel II - "Gostanza loves Martuccio Gomito, and hearing that he is dead, gives way to despair", Op. 247, No. 2.

December 7 - Further

Walk with Harriet

across town

to

Nut Tree Bridge

and

beyond, returning to continue editing (page 2) Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1894 - Schule, Op. 232, No. 16 and compose  ninth for The Decameron - Fifth Day, Op. 247: Novel II - "Gostanza loves Martuccio Gomito, and hearing that he is dead, gives way to despair", Op. 247, No. 2... high 66 -- highest of the month; 31st day of fall...

December 6 - That Ineffable Something

Library

and

supply runs,

beginning the

editing of Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1893 - Schule, Op. 232, No. 16 and composing 8th page of The Decameron - Fifth Day, Op. 247: Novel II - "Gostanza loves Martuccio Gomito, and hearing that he is dead, gives way to despair", Op. 247, No. 2 -- 30th day of fall, high 63...

December 5 - World of Sensation

Vibrant videos with

Harriet and Megan, while editing tenth page Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1893 - Alma / Sophie / Grete, Op. 232, No. 15 (completing this) and composing system 7 The Decameron - Fifth Day, Op. 247: Novel II - "Gostanza loves Martuccio Gomito, and hearing that he is dead, gives way to despair", Op. 247, No. 2 -- on the 29th day of fall, high 55...