December 4 - And the Evening and the Morning

Night: Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera Board Meeting;

Day:

The

Piercing-

Blue-Sky

Commute,

the Review / more Student Teaching (Joe and Cody Dictation / Eric Board Harmony),

the

Reverse-

Course-

Santa-

Snowman,

the Video (re Wilderness Russia, East and West, actually) with Harriet, the Composition Page 61 for Double Piano Concerto ("Fellow Travellers"): III.

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
 
***

Compose page 60 of Double Concerto ("Fellow Travellers"): III upon return.

December 2 - Good Ideas

First day of review / student teaching with the Theoreticians,

Martin Legano nicely holding forth with dictation,

and ditto Stephanie Harwood,

who also shines with a fine composition,

as does Stella Pramudji. 

Another

dynamic

there-

via-

680-

South-

to-

Contra-

Costa-

and-

back-

again-

through-

Solano-

in-

in-

reverse-

concluding-

on-

80, composition for page 59 of Double Piano Concerto ("Fellow Travellers"): III over more

explosive videos with Harriet. 

Late night, an 11th-hour sortie to UC Davis Library,

searching-and-rescuing the prelude from Paul Hindemith's Murderer, Hope of Women, and Samuel Barber's [First] Essay for Orchestra, both Opus 12's.

December 1 - Onward

Design an image for The Opus Project presents Opus 12 (8pm, Saturday, December 28), compose page 58 of Double Piano Concerto ("Fellow Travellers"): III,

over more intriguing videos with Harriet,

into an evening that also features finishing a re-reading of

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871).