Just before heading out the door,
Monty Bairos calls in need of a substitute,
and am happy to oblige.
So afte
the 9:30
Diablo Valley College Theoreticians receive Dictation / Keyboard-Solfege / Board Harmony on Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf: Main Theme, go another round with the 11:00 ones -- a second wonderful group -- touching this time upon material from Weeks 1 (Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9: IV. "Ode to Joy" theme), 5 (Chords in C Major and A Minor, Harmonic Minor), and 7 (Melodic Minor).
Poignant lunch thereafter at Carrows, swinging scenically but non-adventurously on 4 and 80, for class preparation at home,
then
back
out
in
the
Heraclitian evening for Music History,
proceeding from Ralph Vaughan Williams through Anton Webern,
and looking ahead to composers born between 1885 and 1900....
C (Lydian) Blues
C Eb F (F#) G Bb C
Write Your Own 12-Tone Scale
Mix up a Chromatic Scale into a different order
Typical 12-Bar Blues Pattern
I
1 2 3 4
IV I
5 6 7 8
V IV I
9 10 11 12
Listening
[8885] Alban Berg - Wozzeck: Act I, Scene 3, Lullaby and March
[8890] Jelly Roll Morton - Dead Man Blues
[8891] Sergei Prokofiev - Symphony No. 3: I
[8892] Darius Milhaud - La Creation du Monde
[8895] Paul Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphoses: II. Turandot
[8898] George Gershwin - Piano Prelude No. 2
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Directly home thereafter, impossible to deal with sixth letter of the Russian alphabet ("yeh"), score-study of Alban Berg's Altenberg Lieder: I (7), and composition for The Decameron - Fourth Day: Novel 1 (13). Yet there it is...
