December 3 - Continuing Wonders

Finishing up the Elton John Lion King Dictation / Board Harmony,

on a day of the

most torrential rain of the year:

2.3 inches, for a total of 6.91 since July 1. 

More

absolutely

amazing paper-grading,

lunch at

Pinole Applebee's

and

homeward

(Refinery Valley and

Canyon,

Vallejo, 

St. John Mine

Mountain Ranch,

American

Canyon,

Twin Sisters, Rockville Hills,

Cement Hill,

Fairfield Pyramids,

Lagoon

Mountains)

to

Harriet, composing page 3 Portraits of ___(Some Multiple of 3) Women: XI. Saint Joan.

December 2 - Legendary

And the rain falls down --

the most in one day this rainfall year (beginning July 1, surpassed only since January 1 by February 8's 2.23; a fall total of 4.61),

meeting the Theoreticians for Dictation / Board Harmony on

Elton John's Lion King,

followed by another wonderful Ian White composition,

more

wondrous

paper-grading

mid-day,

and review session for the evening Music Historians...

Exam!

December 9
7pm A-L
8:30pm M-Z


Part I

Write any Major Scale (except C), with solfege

Write any Minor Scale (except A), with solfege

List Six Periods of Music History Before the 20th Century (and Dates)

Listening

[5570] Syria - Hurrian Hymn No. 6
[8170] Walther von der Vogelweide - Palestinalied (Palestine Song)
[8450] Josquin des Pres - Scaramella
[8685] J.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 1: I
[8770] Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 5: I
[8858] Giacomo Puccini - La Boheme: Act II

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Part II


Write Any Scale (other than Major or Minor), and identify

Write Four Chords (but not on C) and Identify


List Instruments in a Large Orchestra, in Score Order

Listening


[8882] Igor Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms: I

[8895] Carl Orff - Carmina Burana: I

George Crumb - Madrigals, Book II: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dOpJTRvtDs

Steve Reich - Octet (Eight Lines)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Np9yApXD94

Mark Alburger - Abducted by Aliens: I
http://youtu.be/6ZM8KaCZYRU

[8970] Michael Cooke - Music for Humans

***

Composition page 2 Portraits of ___ (Some Multiple of Three) Women: XI. Saint Joan, upon return.

December 1 - Outstretched

Quiz 14 for the Music Theoreticians,

the examples drawn from Philip Glass and Sting,

after

the

reality

of

return to DVC,

making

the

way

homeward,

post-

haste,

under

harried

skies

in

half-light,

to

Harriet thereafter,

petrol

prices

continuing,

along

with

temperatures,

to

plumet --

beginning

composition for

Portraits of ___ (Some Multiple of Three) Women: XI. Saint Joan.