Make the commute
along slippery slopes
(one vehicle pinwheeling on an entrance ramp and narrowly missing blocking very heavily-travelled slower lanes),
for
Quiz 4 with the Theoreticians (featuring examples from Free and Florid Organum, Leonin, Perotin, Medieval Secular Dances, Richard Coeur-de-Lion, Guillaume de Machaut, Conrad Paumann) and
Owen's class, where, in the so-called Common Practice,
the movement from V7 to I, with Soprano proceeding from Ti-Do and the general requirement of Fa invariably moving to Mi, can only take place with a missing 5th in one of the chords (triple root in latter). Upon return, note that this is indeed the case in Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 1: I (Introduction), although, in J.S. Bach's 371 Chorales (published by son C.P.E. in 1784): 11. Jesu Nun Sei Gepreiset (Jesus Is Now Glorified), a different, apparently non-canonical strategy is utilized. Also at home, composition and editing for pages 5 and 4 respectfully re Abducted by Aliens: III. 1561 Nuremberg Celestial Phenomenon and Psalm 119 "Beati Immaculati" (finishing this latter). By late evening, in much higher spirits, quite literally, on the home front and in an initial-catching-up on email, after more than a weeks hiatus...
