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
