October 21 - Cross Purposes


Another


adventurous,


wandering


day --


northeast 


on 80,


East


4


up


and


over


Franklin


Canyon,


southeast


Morello,


after



paper-grading,


rendezvousing with


Carol at the lab (as she attempts to finish her orchestration for The Opus Project presents Opus 22) and the


Music Historians for their evening session of marvelous early-21st-Century selections,


continuing


as


below...



C (Lydian) Blues Scale

C Eb F (F#) G Bb C


Four Basic Types of C Chords (Type = Root 3rd 5th)

C Augmented = C E G#
C Major - C E G
C Minor - C Eb G
C Diminished - C Eb Gb


Typical 12-Bar Blues Chord Pattern

Chord Used     I
Measure #       1    2   3   4

                        IV       I
                        5    6   7   8

                        V   IV  I
                         9  10  11  12


Listening

[8891] Sergei Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf
[8898] George Gershwin - Porgy and Bess: Summertime
[8900] Aaron Copland - Music for the Theatre: IV. Burlesque
[8901] Harry Partch - U.S. Highball : II
[8906] Dmitri Shostakovich - The Age of Gold: Polka
[8908] Olivier Messiaen - Turangalila Symphony: IV

***


220th day of summer, high up two notches to 75, beginning Portraits of ___(Some Multiple of 3) Women: VIII. Woman in the Window.