December 3 - Styling
A very classical day for Review / Student Teaching in Music Theory
with Keanu presenting Dictation on Erik Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1,
Jose with Frederic Chopin's Nocturne No. 2 for Sight-Singing and Performance, and Rosie holding forth with a second Dictation on an E Minor-Lydian inflected Antonin Dvorak selection.
Weatherwise,
an
ominous
morning,
but
not without
striking beauty,
which
continues
upon
return,
rendezvousing with Harriet for an afternoon of video and class preparation,
returning for an evening of musical exploration re composers born between 1970 and 1990, looking toward Part I of the Final (which, with II, will be given two weeks from now)...
Write Your Own Composition
8 bars of music, with two notes at once at least at some point
Short Essay
Where has music been?
Reflect on the history of music from early times to recent (5 or more sentences)
Review Listening (and one new selection)
[1988] Senegal - Greetings from Podor
[6970] Asia Minor (Turkey) - Epitaph of Seikilos
[7540] Gregorian Chant - Kyrie IV
[8300] Guillaume de Machaut - Notre Dame Mass: I. Kyrie
[8450] Josquin des Pres - El Grillo (The Cricket)
[8685] G.F. Handel - Messiah: Hallelujah
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Compose page 60 of Double Concerto ("Fellow Travellers"): III upon return.