Thursday tends to be the
easiest / most relaxing day of the
work-semi-week --
with the
Theoreticians on their musical fingers and toes for Quiz 8...
the examples drawn from Frederic Chopin's
Prelude in E Minor, Richard Wagner's
Tristan und Isolde, Giuseppe Verdi's
Rigoletto and
Aida, Georges Bizet's
Carmen, Erik Satie's
Gymnopedie No. 1, and Charles Ives's
Variations on "America".
After an extended session,
back
to
the
ranch for composition re page 9 of
The Decameron - Third Day: IX. Gillette of Narbonne Craves Bertrand de Roussillon and score-studying Dmitri Shostakovich
Theme and Variations in Bb Major (8).