Monday, January 24, 2011

January 24 - Give It Another Whirl


Ah, there's nothing like the first day of a new semester of Music Theory, with Owen doing a brief pep talk -- too bad the internet doesn't work during the second half of class, but we manage accordingly, with three note values, the C Major Scale in Treble Clef, and musical spelling -- looking forward to getting to know another great class.


Before this it was editing Diabolic Varations: XXX -- with a hexatonic half-step, augmented-second scale (C Db E F G# A) in a free binary form ABA'B' where A is a free canon at the unison featuring a serial-like relationship of rhythm and contour (intervals down in dotted eighths, up in eighths), and A' as its melodic inversion at the third (up in dotted eighths, down in eighths) --


and blitzing to school at this arguably new-improved (actually restored from years ago) earlier start time.


After, lab work (with the early Theory, there will now be access every day!), recording Diabolic  XXIX,


heading back in the


sunny haze, doing a second draft of the Jim Fox Grove American article, checking with Charles Hiroshi Garrett re Dan Becker (looks like I'll be doing his article, too -- now up to an even dozen writings -- probably should hold with this), and creating a video alteration for



Diabolic Variations: XXIV.