October 8 - Beacon of Light


Week 8, Day 2, for the


Diablo Valley College


Theoreticians, with Charles Ives's Variations on America: Spanish Variation for Dictation / Keyboard-Solfege / Board Harmony, with marvelous Student Compositions (Round 1 and 2) from Sia Jamshidi and Martin Lejano,


lingering after with several in


tutorials,





ultimately


heading homeward


under


high cirrus for class preparation and paper grading,



returning


under


a


dramatic


earlier-than-has-been-for-quite-awhile


evening


sunset


for


enlightening Music Literature adventures from



F.J. Haydn's Symphony No. 104 ("London"): I to Richard Wagner's Gotterdammerung: Finale. looking ahead as follows...






C Chromatic Scale

Up - C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B C
Down - C B Bb A Ab G Gb F E Eb D Db C

Typical Large Symphony Orchestra


Woodwinds
[4] Flute
[4] Oboe
[4] Clarinet
[4] Bassoon

Brass
[4] Trumpet
[8] Horn
[3] Trombone
[1] Tuba

Percussion
Harp
Piano
Mallets
Battery
Timpani

Strings
[17] Violin I
[15] VIolin II
[13] Viola
[11] Cello
[9] Bass

Listening
[8833] Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 4: III
[8838] Georges Bizet - Carmen: Habanera
[8839] Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition: Gnomus
[8840] Peter Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6: II
[8860] Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1: III
[8866] Erik Satie - Gymnopedie No. 1


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Late-night outing with Owen and company, returning to compose page 49 of At a Medical Depostiion and Psalm 102, on the 197th day of summer, high 79.