July 12 - Dawn


One


of


those


brutally


early


days,


but


not


without


joys


in


the


brilliant sunrise (including coffee-shop paper-grading),


followed by


equally shining students at


Diablo Valley College, wrapping up the Romantics and looking ahead to the early 20th Century...


C Whole-Tone Scale
C D E F# G# A# C

C Triads
Augmented C E G#
Major C E G
Minor C Eb G
Diminished C Eb Gb

Three Stylistic Periods After the Baroque and Before the Present
Classical (1750-1825)
Romantic (1825-1900)
20th Century (1900-2000)

Igor Stravinsky - Birth and Death Dates, Three Stylistic Periods and Types of Music
(1882-1971)
Russian - Ballets
Neoclassic - Ballets, Concertos, Operas, Symphonies
Serial - Ballets, Memorial Pieces

Listening
[8872] Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 8: I
[8874] Charles Ives - Symphony No. 4: I
[8874] Arnold Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire: I. Moondrunk
[8881] Bela Bartok - The Miraculous Mandarin
[8882] Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring: Dances of the Adolescents
[8885] Alban Berg - Wozzeck: Act I, Scene 3, March and Lullaby

***


Homeward


thereafterward,


via replenished office supplies, for the day's musical productions...

Hottest day yet of the month -- the total record of century-and-beyond days this year so far as

June 16 - 107
July 7 - 100
July 8 - 100
July 10 - 100
July 11 - 104
July 12 - 105

A quick bike up to the pool and spa mid-evening...

... still up to composing and pdf'ing afterwards:

Psalm 100, page 8 (concluding this)
The Decameron-Second Day, 35
San Timoteo Can[yon]tata, 22