September 3 - Another Day in Paradise

Back

to

it

all,

beyond

the

boulevards, beginning a brisk Week 3 with the Theoreticians -- D Dorian and Minor, E Phrygian, Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9: IV. Ode to Joy theme (but in C) for Dictation / Keyboard-Solfege / Board Harmony (anachronistically harmonized in perfect fifths above), Intervals from P1 to P5, and the beginning of Round 1 for imaginative Student Compositions --

visiting Monty and

Owen's classes briefly,

then retrograde

to refuge,

paper-grading

and

class

preparation,

advancing

ahead

to

the

evening class, where Music Ancient and inspired by same segues into the Early Medieval, looking ahead to Late...

D Dorian
D E F G A B C D

D Minor
D E F G A Bb C D

E Phrygian
E F G A B C D E

Five Items in a Mass Ordinary (Translations) - Typical Forms
Kyrie (Lord Have Mercy) - ABA (Binary)
Gloria (Glory) - Through-Composed
Credo (Creed) - Through-Composed
Sanctus (Holy) - ABCB (Verse-Chorus)
Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) - AB (Binary)

Number of Steps in Intervals from Perfect Unison to Fifth
P1 = 0 Steps
m2 = 1/2 Step
M2 = 1 Step
m3 = 1 1/2 Stepes
M3 = 2 Steps
P4 = 2 1/2 Steps
Tritone = 3 Steps
P5 = 3 1/2 Steps

Listening
[7540] Gregorian Chant - Kyrie IV
[8085] Orkney Islands - Hymn to St. Magnus
[8133] Leonin - Hec Dies (This is the Day)
[8844] Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
[8958] Giacomo Puccini - La Boheme: Act II
[8962] Claude Debussy - Piano Preludes: The Sunken Cathedral

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Late? Yes!  Page 15 composed for Psalm 102 and At a Medical Deposition, noting this as the 163rd day of summer, high two degrees lower at 87.

September 2 - Anywhere and Here

Page 14 composed for Psalm 102 and At a Medical Deposition --

162nd day of summer, high just below 90 at 89... to the Sierra yet again, but now with Harriet and to South Lake Tahoe, via 80 and 50,

up the foothill slopes

(with weird occasional precip both directions)

of El Dorado,

coffee stop in

Placerville,

up towards Fresh Pond, catching Johannes Brahms's Variations on a Theme of Haydn (or so he thought, but definitely Op. 9) on the radio, to where the way narrows into two lanes,

winding along the

Upper South Fork of the

American River near

Kyburz,

approaching the

granitic

heights

of

Strawberry,

Lover's Leap,

winding up the

Bowl

to

Echo Summit (7382, at this telling),

then down down by the

Cliffs

into the

Basin to visit

Megan. 

She is doing well,

housesitting for an MS-stricken hospital-ridden friend, whose big

dog has a big sense of smell,

in both the give-

and

take- fashion. 

Out

to

dinner at

Hunan

Garden,

with more visiting,

then 

back

on

89

for

back-deck lingering, with hilarious attempts to update Harriet's voicemail message,

beyond

which

a

heartfelt farewell as we reverse course, the music of Schoenberg, Hindemith, et. al of Op. 9, blaring out all the way to peaceful sleep.