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