Wednesday, November 9, 2011

November 9 - Partly Obscured


Mary Variations: III pfd and


down the road in


clouds and


sun for another Diablo Valley College Music Theory session, today being dictation / keyboard-solfege / board-harmony re the Andrew Lloyd Webber Jesus Christ Superstar: Hosanna (first 4 bars) and a second big day of impressive


Round 3 student compositions.


Return homeward


via


errands, to catch up with grading papers, then back for the evening cadre, proceeding from Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme through Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw, jumping ahead a bit to touch base with the listening of the week for


Quiz 9, then even farther as below:



+ Write your own 12-tone row (The chromatic scale in any unique mixed-up order),

with music, including

8891 Sergei Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf
8892 Darius Milhaud - La Creation du Monde: Fugue
8898 George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
8900 Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring: II. Allegro
8903 Joe Garland - In the Mood
8906 Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5: I



Reverse again past


strange transport, to compose pages 43 and 3rd system of The Cop and the Anthem and Psalm 79.