January 31 - Wrapping Up

Recouping for the week, and the last three, and the month, and... begin score-study of Zoltan Kodaly's Hary Janos: Battle and Defeat of Napoleon, Op. 15,

composition for Abducted by Aliens: II. 214 BC Livy / 94 BC Plutarch, Op. 222, and general catch-up --

much of this over two W.A. Mozart operas,

mostly with Megan (Harriet beginning the run of Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore),

with late afternoon errands

out and

about.

January 30 - Breaking Through

Three weeks in Music Theory I (Quiz 3 as a group endeavor, the musical examples drawn from Native American, Gregorian Chant, and Medieval Theoretical sources),

IV, and

II (with a Two-Part Minor Dictation, review of Closed and Open Spacing, introducing the notion of mixing same,

plus Sight-Singing from memory and

in harmony). 

More

rain,

but

still

not

much --

.13

of

an

inch,

heading

homeward

up

the

clearing corridor,

errandwise,

to finish 1) the score-study, for now, of Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto: I, Op. 14 (16 pages total), and 2) composition for Abducted by Aliens: I. 1965 Gemini VII Bogey (9 sheets in its entirety),

over Gaetano Donizetti's Elixir of Love and

La Favorita, and

W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni, 

before decamping to

UC Davis Library to examine scores to

Darius Milhaud - Agamemnon, Op. 14
Benjamin Britten - Ballad of Heroes, Op. 14
Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach: Knee Plays
Zoltan Kodaly - Hary Janos: Battle and Defeat of Napoleon, Op. 15

January 29 - Rain

First precipitation of the calendar year --

not much (1/50 of an inch) --

and some beaufiful

vistas in between,

on a day of Week 3 review for the Theoreticians,

Owen's class reviewing Chorale-Style Open Spacing and learning the hazards of Voice-Crossing (at least re c. 1650 - 1850).

Lunch, lab work, and return in the gloom, to score-study pages 9-12 of Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto: I, Op.14, and compose the ensuing page (8) for Abducted by Aliens: I. 1965 Gemini VII Bogey, Op. 222.

January 28 - Full On

Quiz 2 for the Music Historians -- Ancient Music and later works inspired by same -- looking ahead to Medieval I, including three later, latter selections influenced by the Middle Ages...

D Dorian
D E F G A B C D

D Minor
D E F G A Bb C D

E Phrygian
E F G A B C D E

Intervals (and Number of Steps) from Perfect Unison to Perfect Fifth
P1 = 0 Steps
m2 = 1/2 Step
M2 = 1 Step
m3 = 1 1/2 Steps
M3 = 2 Steps
P4 = 2 1/2 Steps
Tritone = 3 Steps
P5 = 3 1/2 Steps

Five Items in a Mass Ordinary (with Translations and Typical Forms)
Kyrie - Lord Have Mercy - AB (Binary)
Gloria - Glory - Through-Composed
Credo - Creed - Through-Composed
Sanctus - Holy - ABCB (Verse-Chorus)
Agnus Dei - Lamb of God - AB  (Binary)

Listening
[7540] Gregorian Chant - Kyrie IV
[8085] Orkney Islands - Hymn to St. Magnus
[8133] Leonin - Hec Dies (This Is the Day)
[8844] Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
[8858] Giacomo Puccini - La Boheme: Act II
[8862] Claude Debussy - Preludes: The Sunken Cathedral

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Before this,

the daily rounds,

the Scholia Enchiriadis Rex Coelestis for Dictation / Board Harmony with the Theoreticians,

Owen's class dealing with Chorale-Style Closed Spacing,

returning home briefly for errands,

class preparation, and score-study pages 5-8 of Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, Op. 14.  After, out with Owen, then home to Harriet and Megan, composing page 7 Abducted by Aliens: I. 1965 Gemini VII Bogey, Op. 222.

January 27 - Alternative Universes

Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9: IV. Ode to Joy (C Major version) for Dictation / Keyboard-Solfege / Board Harmony with the Theoreticians. 

Owen's class following (their first-and-only in-class quiz),

the

viewful

commute

on

either

side

of

these

(and

clearly

moreso on the

way southwest /

south), with composition re page 6 Abducted by Aliens: I. 1965 Gemini VII Bogey, Op. 222, and beginning score-study towards Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto: I, Op. 14 (first four pages) --

some of this work over diverting

videos with

Harriet and Megan.