Just because the fog's in beyond Cordelia
(with petrol down to $3.47 in Fairfield)
doesn't
mean
it's
not
going
to
reach 100, as it indeed does for the fourth time of this year (June 16's 107, plus the century mark two and three days ago) --
on a Diablo Valley College
Music History day that launches into hot-blooded Romanticism...
C Chromatic Scale
Up - C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B C
Down C B Bb A Ab G Gb F E Eb D Db C
Idealized Late-Romantic / Early-20th-Century Orchestra
Woodwinds
(2-4) Flute (1 doubling Piccolo)
(2-4) Oboe (1 doubling English Horn)
(2-4) Clarinet (1 doubling Piccolo Clarinet / 1 doubling Bass Clarinet)
(2-4) Bassoon (1 doubling Contrabassoon)
Brass
(2-4) Trumpets
(4-8) Horns
(3) Trombones
(1) Tuba
Percussion
(1-2) Harps
Piano
Mallets
Battery
Timpani
Strings
(c. 17) Violin I
(c. 15) Violin II
(c. 13) Viola
(c. 11) Cello
(c. 9) Bass
Listening
[8813] Richard Wagner - Gotterdammerung: Finale (The Twilight of the Gods)
[8833] Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 4: III
[8841] Antonin Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World"): I
[8858] Giacomo Puccini - La Boheme: Act II (The Bohemians)
[8860] Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1: III
[8862] Claude Debussy - The Children's Corner: Golliwog's Cakewalk
***
Home via errands, then the musical assignations of the day (pages 6 and 33 composed for Psalm 100 and The Decameron - Second Day + Pdf of San Timoteo Can[yon]tata, page 20), and a mid-evening bike-pool-spa jaunt with the friendly locals.
