November 12 - Uncertainties


Despite the cloud cover for much of the


224th day of summer,



the high temp reaches a



certainly-respectable-for-this-time-of-year 72,


crusing towards a belated


Week 13 with the Theoreticians -- Dictation / Board Harmony on Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach: BED


One more surprise substituting in Monty's class,


more paperwork for same, home to grade papers, returning for an evening from Lionel Bart's Oliver!, Lalo Shiffrin's Mission Impossible, and Nam June Paik's TV Bra for Living Scupture through John Adams's Nixon in China: I Am the Wife of Mao-Tse Tung, and beyond to...


Write a Minimalist Passage
(i.e. featuring repetition)

Three Typical C Seventh Chords
CMaj7 C7 Cm7

Constituents of Three Typical Seventh Chords
Major 7th Chord = Major Triad + Major 7th Interval
Dominant 7th Chord = Major Triad + Minor 7th Interval
Minor 7th Chord = Minor Triad + Minor 7th Interval

Three Periods of Music History After Baroque and Before Present
Classical 1750-1825
Romantic 1825-1900
20th-Century 1900-2000

Listening
[8951] Sting - Every Breath You Take
[8957] Mark Alburger - Camino Real: Block 9
[8957] Tan Dun - Ghost Opera
[8958] Erling Wold - Sub Pontio Pilato: Credo
[8958] Prince - Darling Nikki
[8960] Osvaldo Golijov - Oceana: I

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Page 42 of Double Piano Concerto ("Fellow Travellers"): III


composed late.