C [Lydian] Blues
C Eb F [F#] G Bb C
Write Your Own 12-Tone Row
Chromatic Scale in any non-sequential order
Typical Chords in a 12-Bar Blues Pattern
I (measures 1-4)
IV (m5-6) I (7-8)
V (9) IV (10) I (11-12)
Listening
[8895] Carl Orff - Carmina Burana: O Fortuna
[8898] George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
[8900] Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring: II. Allegro
[8901] Harry Partch - U.S. Highball
[8906] Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 1: II
[8908] Olivier Messiaen - Turangalila Symphony: IV
***
Definitely on borrowed time, proceeding from Ralph Vaughan Williams's The Wasps: Oveture through Alban Berg's Wozzeck: Act I, Scene 3 - March and Lullaby in Music Literature, and beyond as above --
checking out Diablo Valley College Philharmononic during the break,
and breaking afterwards with Owen,
Doug, and Carol.
The
day
begins
with
the
standard-
issue-
beautiful
commute,
and,
for
the
Diablo Valley College
Music Theoreticians, Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera: Ballad of Mac the Knife for Dictation and Board Harmony,
plus more engaging Student Compositions of Round 2
(including that of Dmitri Sanborn), returning homeward after lunch,
through the various beauties to prepare and paper-grade for the
evening class.
When it's all done, definitely time to head home again on the 209th day of summer, high up to 84 (tying with the 6th and 19th for the second-warmest temp of the month), composing page 9 of Communist Manifesto.
