October 31 - A Haunted Landscape

Paper-grading

on

a

summer-is-over-at-least-temporarilly

day --

music from Jelly Roll Morton and Sergei Prokofiev through Joe Garland, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Olivier Messiaen for the

morning Music Historians,

and on to...

For Quiz 11 - November 14

Write Your Own Four-Note Passage

Forwards (Ex. ABCD)

Backwards (DCBA)

Upside-Down (AGFE)

Backwards Upside-Down (EFGA)


Three Types of Jazz Bands

Dixieland (New Orleans Style)
[1-2] Clarinet
[1-2] Trumpet
Trombone
Banjo
Piano
Tuba / Bass
Drums

Swing (Big Band)
[4-5] Saxophones
[4-5] Trumpets
[4-5] Trombones
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums

Bebop (Bop)
Saxophone
Trumpet
Trombone
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums


Listening

Samuel Barber - Cello Concerto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOxp6bXoz48

John Cage - Living Room Music: II. Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFUJd8RRjdM

[8913] Benjamin Britten - Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

[8918] Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story: Cool

[8925] Pierre Boulez - Le Marteau sans Maitre: III. L'Artisanat Furieux
                                  (The Masterless Hammer: III. Furious Craftsmanship)

[8929] George Crumb - Black Angels

***

Homeward

to

compose page 3 of Portraits of ___(Some Multiple of 3) Women: XII. Shara.

October 30 - Go Figure

Quiz 11 for the Theoreticians,

the musical examples drawn from Duke Ellington, Olivier Messiaen, Bela Bartok, John Cage, Jester Hairston, and Richard Rodgers.

Driveabout

prime and retrograde,

229th day of summer,

high 77, perhaps the last of an unbroken string extending back to May 9's 73 --

errands

including yet another libraric video run, continuing composition for Portraits of ___(Some Multiple of 3) Women: XII. Shara...

over continental videos,

meriting a quick comparison of square mileage...

 3,119,884.69 - Total Contiguous US

c. 3.794,000 - Total US

c. 3.931,000 - Total Europe

October 29 - Got Better

24 hours later and, voila, Carol's windshield is fixed.

Elsewhere, zoom under the North American,

pure,

curvaceous landscape and skies to the

Diablo Valley College 

Music Theory folks for Duke Ellington's Concerto for Cootie as Dictation and Board Harmony (Chorale-Style Voice-Leading, Closed and Open Spacing), returning on the 228th day of summer, high up four to 82 (159th 80-or-more), beginning Portraits of ___(Some Multiple of 3) Women: XII. Shara.

October 28 - Smashing Surprise

Learn with alarm that, after The Opus Project presents Opus 22, some big suspicious guy apparently stepped in front of Carol's car, more-or-less intentionally jumping unto the hood and shattering the windshield.  Miracle-of-miracles, he was OK, but wanted money on the spot, rather than reporting the "accident."

In other news, make the jump to the

DVC Theoreticians, for

Richard Rodger's The Sound of Music: Do-Re-Mi as Dictation / Keyboard-Solfege / Board Harmony (Continuo-Style Voice-Leading) -- and the

Music Historians, looking beyond as follows...

Write Your Own Four-Note Passage

Forwards (Ex. ABCD)

Backwards (DCBA)

Upside-Down (AGFE)

Backwards Upside-Down (EFGA)


Three Types of Jazz Bands

Dixieland (New Orleans Style)
[1-2] Clarinet
[1-2] Trumpet
Trombone
Banjo
Piano
Tuba / Bass
Drums

Swing (Big Band)
[4-5] Saxophones
[4-5] Trumpets
[4-5] Trombones
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums

Bebop (Bop)
Saxophone
Trumpet
Trombone
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums


Listening

Samuel Barber - Cello Concerto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOxp6bXoz48

John Cage - Living Room Music: II. Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFUJd8RRjdM

[8913] Benjamin Britten - Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

[8918] Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story: Cool

[8925] Pierre Boulez - Le Marteau sans Maitre: III. L'Artisanat Furieux
                                  (The Masterless Hammer: III. Furious Craftsmanship)

[8929] George Crumb - Black Angels

***

227th day of summer, high again up to 78 -- with 73, definitely the signature temp of the month -- the peak of four dates each...

78 - 16, 22, 23, 28
73 - 15, 20, 26, 27

... finishing Portraits of ___(Some Multiple of 3) Women: VIII. Woman in the Window (8 pages total).

October 27 - OK, Line Up!

After late-night requisitioning of

Aaron Copland - Music for a Great City (1964)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) - Medea, Op. 23 (1946)                     
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) - Variaciones Concertantes, Op. 23 (1953)

(the former to check troping re Portraits of ___(Some Multiple of 3) Women: XVII. Bridget, the latter for The Opus Project presents Opus 23, Saturday, November 29, 2014, Diablo Valley College Music Building),

somehow break into what turns out to be a line of more-or-less simularly-attired young men leaving the UC Davis Library,

and,

sure enough,

they continue across the quad and stop in a

seeming ritual in front of an adjacent hall....

The day's individual ritual begins with the

procession to Diablo Valley College,

beginning Week 11 with the Theoreticians (including Voice-Leading, Root-Position Triads, 0 Common Tones, Contrary Motion w/r/t Bass) -- i.e. 3 against 1... the Clique and the Nerd/Millionaire),

followed

by

reverse

course

homeward to compose page 7 of Portraits...: VIII. Woman in the Window, on the 226th day of summer, high again 73.

October 26 - Truth in Advertising

Springing up to the Sierra again (though Autumn) for a breakthrough, fantastic adventure,

though only as far as indicative Big Bend,

where the Rainbow Lodge has finally re-opened, so,

cannot resist a visit for dinner

and

a

look-see,

with

a

bracing

walk adjacent to the South Yuba,

and

further divertisements

near the

eastern public access of

Hamsphire Rocks.  225th day of summer, high skittering up two degrees to 73 (way cooler in the high country at 55, but seemingly plummeting near its overnight low of 39 soon after sunset).  Page 6 composed for Portraits of ___(Some Multiple of 3) Women: VIII. Woman in the Window after a stimulating return.