Write Your Own Four-Note Passage
(different from the examples below)
Forwards (Prime)
ex. ABCD
Backwards (Retrograde)
ex. DCBA
Upside-Down (Inversion)
ex. AGFE
Backwards Upside-Down (Retrograde Inversion)
ex. EFGA
Instruments in Three Types of Jazz Bands
Dixieland (New Orleans Style)
1-2 Clarinets
1-2 Trumpets
Trombone
Banjo
Piano
Tuba / Bass
Drums
Swing (Big Band)
4-5 Clarinets
4-5 Trumpets
4-5 Trombones
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums
Bebop (Bop)
Saxophone
Trumpet
Trombone
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums
Listening
[8910] Samuel Barber - Second Essay for Orchestra
[8912] John Cage - Sonata No. 5
[8912] Conlon Nancarrow - Study No. 1
[8913] Benjamin Britten - War Requiem: Dies Irae
[8913] Leonard Bernstein - Chichester Psalms: II
[8925] Pierre Boulez - Le Marteau sans Maitre (The Masterless Hammer): I
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With an increasing length of suspicious-sounds-upon-engine-ignition since last week's standard maintenance,
head
back
through
inclement
climes
(more than a half-inch of still-must-be-welcomed rain --
.58 --
for a season total 10.2 since this past July)
to
Novato
Toyota to see what can be done,
picking up a loaner
and
heading
off,
the
weather
slightly
improving
a
bit
into
striking
scenerianicty
towards
Diablo
Valley College.
More Voice-Leading for the 9:30am Theoreticians, after Dictation on Jester Hairston's Elijah Rock, plus as-always engaging Student Compositions, still finishing up those of Round 2.
Final day of substitute teaching for Owen -- the challenging Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra: II. Game of Pairs opening side-drum solo for Rhythmic Dictation, examination of ii7 chords including J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier: Prelude in C, more Sight-Singing from the same's Cantata No. 140 ("Watchet auf"), and Board-Harmony re yet again his Passacaglia in C Minor, as an introduction to iv7.
Again to the Arts Division for paperwork,
more
torrents
upon
return
but
letting
up
homeward,
editing
a third page of The Decameron - Fourth Day: VII. Pasquino Rubs a Leaf Of Sage, evening-class preparation, and at least a bit of catch-up grading.
The Music Historians proceed from Jelly Roll Morton and Sergei Prokofiev through Dmitri Shostakovich and Olivier Messian, followed by the second procession to point of origin, and another edited page of VII. Pasquino Rubs a Leaf Of Sage (4 total thus far),
over quirky video fare with Harriet.
