March 7 - Partial Obfuscation


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).