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.