August 20 - Explosive Performance


Pretty much spend all afternoon re-uploading pictures to the first three blog entries of markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com + the Table of Contents and Syllabi, and at least this works, but what a long road this will be if an easy fix is not found + no real guarantee that this will not inexplicably malfunction again....  In this case, we don't pay money and takes our chances, at least initially....


By


evening, 


time


for


the


first


Music History session of the season, and, in the subdued (quite calm, efficient, and organized, actually) chaos of too many students wanting to add (and they all would be gladly so, in an ideal world), somehow a picture of this august body is not taken, and neither is one of the class notes at the end, which does not happen often.  So, in lieu of the normally complete ones in the pass, here's a suspect one, actually from more than several semesters, with the same content at time, then evolving differently below by prose....


C Major Scale
C D E F G A B C
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1(8)
Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do

Five Ways of Producing Sound
Aerophone (Wind)
Idiophone (Solid-Body)
Membranophone (Drum)
Chordophone (String)
Electrophone (Electricity)

Piano Keyboard
 C#  D#   F#  G# A#
 Db  Eb   Gb Ab Bb
C  D  E  F  G   A    B C

Listening
[1970] Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra): I. Introduction
[1980] Gustav Holst - The Planets: I. Mars
[1981] Edgar Varese - Poeme Electronique (Electronic Poem)
[8891] Sergei Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf
[8908] Olivier Messiaen - Turangalila Symphony: IV
[8911] Alan Hovhaness - And God Created Great Whales


So,


a lot of excuses,


right?


There will probably be more,


beginning the day zipping to work, bestowing Lowell Mason's Mary Had a Little Lamb for Dictation / Keyboard-Solfege for the Theorists,


and there-and-backing it before the evening's endeavors.  149th day of summer, high 95 (60th 90+, for a solid two-months of such temps!), composing page 2 respectively for Psalm 102 and At a Medical Deposition.