August 31 - Seeing and Hearing

Week 3 for the Music Historians, making our way from Balinese gamelan through early Islamic music, via Gregorian chant, listening and looking ahead as above.

Before this a roving afternoon of paper grading (Xavier's alphabetization and pre-grading really helping) from Yan's Garden (Music Theory) to

Elephant Bar (Music History), the day starting with the usual 21st-Century work and Theory (the Orkney Islands Hymn to St. Magnus, lots of great student questions re modes, and History Phases: I Turkey / Asia Minor) and

ending with the impossible...

Pdf for Orpheus Cycle: III (first three pages)
Pdf's of The Passion According to St. Matthew: XVII-XVIII
5th page composed for Psalm 70
100th orchestrated page of The Countess Cathleen
200 pages total for edit of Symphony No. 3 
17th clip incorporated for Camino Real: Block 9 

August 28 - Return to the Scene

Out mid-morning with Harriet to pick up the car, which, after a check-up, proves to be in good shape.  Work on this and that through the day -- including

Linking Pdf's of Sequence Music, Op. 23
Pdfs for The Passion According to St. Matthew: XI-XII
2nd page composed for Psalm 70
97th orchestrated page of The Countess Cathleen
170 pages total for edit of Symphony No. 3


-- as H heads to a rehearsal, and decide to detour back toward the remains of the fire, thinking this a prelude to another Tahoe hike.  By the time that steps are retaken down

Vanden,

across

Foxboro

(with

a

bit

of

diversion),

south

on

Peabody

(now

re-opened),

wandering about Goodman,

Gervaise

etc.,

ultimately

west on Cement Hill, northwest in the

Manuel

Campos

country where evidently the blaze began

(Mystic at

Donnington), and

 ultimately

northeast

on

80 -- the afternoon is waning, and the traffic farther east daunting, so think it prudent to call this enough of an outing for the day, placing the 14th clip for the video of Camino Real: Block 9, and finishing up the re-reading of the

Aeschylus Oresteia in the Philip Vellacott translation.  Ah, that sense of deja vu...

August 25 - Lying Low

21st-Century Music work, and the fog

hugging

the

hills

of

the

corridor to Quiz 2 with the Theoreticians, returning to post

Duo Sonata No. 1 ("Hyphenated") at

The International Music Score Library Project and attend to the rest of the day's musical activities, including

Pdf of Sequence Music, Op. 23: I
Pdfs for The Passion According to St. Matthew: V-VI
14th page composed for Psalm 69
94th orchestrated page of The Countess Cathleen
140 pages total for edit of Symphony No. 3

and 11th clip incorporated into the Camino Real: Block 10 video (finally getting back to this project since June 13).

Also discovering with delight the wonders of the Garriton Orchestra sounds in Finale, realizing that one is not limited to 16 tracks in Encore (actually 15, minus the semi-useless percussion) and Cubase (yes, there are ways around this) but now the astounding typical binary multiple of 128!  And the various reverberatory scenarios sound promissing.  Still not sure if the final sonic product will rival the Tritone Orchstra, but we shall see... i.e., hear...

August 24 - At Last

Always running a little late, it seems, but still early enough to get to class on time for the evening

Music Literature session, from the undated Yurok Women's Brush Dance through the Ancient Asia Minor Epitaph of Seikilos,

looking ahead to next week, as at top.

The morning Theory class -- proceeded by 21st-Century Music work and

the

daily

commute -- also apparently goes well, with dictation on the Gregorian Kyrie IV (harmonized as a tonic drone, identifying number of interval thus formed), plus review.

Return

thereafter,

with

petrol,

library (more videos to watch with Harriet, including

The Band Wagon [1953, a great example of reverse snobbery, and what a stance!],

Because You're Mine [1952, featuring Mario Lanza],

Deep in My Heart [1954, re Sigmund Romberg], and

Flying Down to Rio [Vincent Youmans, 1933],

Gigi [Frederick Lowe, 1958],

Hallelujah[!] [Irving Berlin(!), 1929],

How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [Frank Loesser, 1961]),

In the Good Old Summertime [Miklos Lazlo, 1949],

It's Always Fair Weather [Andre Previn, 1955],

Jamboree [Neal Hefti, 1957],

On the Town [Leonard Bernstein, 1944 / 1949],

Pippin [Stephen Schwartz, 1972, in its 1981 Broadway production], and

The Pirates of Penzance [Arthur Sullivan, 1879]), and

office-supply stops (first time to replace the Brother/Mac cartridge, with the helpful clerks coming to the rescue).

More Finale endeavors on the homefront...

Pdf of Duo Sonata No. 1 ("Hyphenated"): IV. Serenade-Rag
Pdfs for The Passion According to St. Matthew: III-IV
13th page composed for Psalm 69
93th orchestrated page of The Countess Cathleen
130 pages total for edit of Symphony No. 3

... figuring out, among other items, two particularly amazingly foolish set-ups in the program:

1. re Measure Numbers, the default is "opaque" -- which must be unchecked so that measure-number boxes may be visible (?!)

2. re Page Numbers -- instructions for "Right Page" -- which would usually be first page of a document -- are given at the bottom of the window (?!).

All one can do is find the whimsy in the situation, right down to the instruction book's ridiculous notion that the whole process is easy.... Ha!... somewhat reminiscent of Sibelius's arrogant "Sibelius can do that for you automatically"...

Late,

after the there-and-back again, edit 8th-and-final video of the Henry Miller in Brooklyn Noe Valley performance.