January 31 - What Lies Ahead

Up early,

and down the freeways

for

Diablo Valley College Music Theory

Quiz 3,

errands around campus re the authenticity of signatures,

checking out the new

nice-on-the-

inside-

not-so-much-on-the-outside Student Services Building (best seen reflected in the windows of the impressive Book Store), squack in the middle of campus

(renewed appreciation for the pleasant edges),

paper grading at Moon (whoops, Yan's) Garden (re-encountering St. Mary's recent Music graduate soprano Karina),

and points farther south in Contra Costa,

Alameda

(Altamont

Pass),

San

Joaquin,

Stanislaus

(Shane P. Donlon Ranch,

Del Puerto

and

Patterson Canyons,

Crow's

Landing,

Newman),

Merced

(Santa

Nella),

Fresno

(Little

Panoche et al,

Joaquin

Rocks,

Harris Ranch,

Coalinga Ridge)... miles to go, a dark and speedy rollercoaster back of beyond, before blissful union with sleep.

January 30 - Strength Before

Another

sunshiney

day

for

review of Week 3 material, then launch ahead with Dictation and Board Harmony on the Orkney Islands Hymn to St. Magnus.

Return

homeward early to compose The Decameron - Third Day: VIII (14) and more Stravinsky Shepherdess score-study (meaures 14-16) in tandem with Harriet

over

videos.

January 29 - Topsy-Turvy

Week 3, Day 2 for the Theoreticians, finally doing a medieval-style parallel perfect-fifth harmonization of the Beethoven Ode to Joy -- a carry-over from yesterday.  Then proceed with Dictation / Board-Harmony from the Musica Enchiriadis Rex Coelestis, featuring Oblique, Parallel, and Contrary Motion. 

Another soothing lunch,

returning home (Harriet arriving eventually) to grade the evening class's Quiz 1, then back for more madness,

proceeding from the Syrian Hurrian Hymn through Gregorian Chant, looking ahead to the rest of the material for Quiz 3.

D Dorian
D E F G A B C D

D Minor
D E F G A Bb C D

E Phrygian
E F G A B C D E

Number of Steps in Intervals from P1 to P5
P1 = 0 Steps
m2 = 1/2 Step
M2 = 1 Step
m3 = 1 1/2 Steps
M3 = 2 Steps
P4 = 2 1/2 Steps
Tritone = 3 Steps
P5 = 3 1/2 Steps

Items in a Mass Ordinary, with Translations and Typical Forms
Kyrie - Lord Have Mercy - Ternary (ABA)
Gloria - Glory - Through-Composed
Credo - Creed (I Believe) - Through-Composed
Sanctus - Holy - Verse-Chorus (ABCB)
Agnus Dei - Lamb of God - Binary (AB)

Listening:
[7540] Gregorian Chant - Kyrie IV
[7682] Morocco - Lala Fatima
[8070] Latin Lyric - Song of the Ass (Orientis Partibus)
[8085] Orkney Islands - Hymn to St. Magnus
[8100] India - Raga Maru Bihag
[8133] Leonin - Hec Dies (This Is the Day)

***

Out thereafter to deja-vu at BJ's with Owen and Doug, then home to compose The Decameron - Third Day: VIII (13) and score-study of the Stravinsky Shepherdess, measures 9-13.