The Summer Thursday Default Regimen, up absurdly early, readying videos, making what seems to be the darkest commute of the season,
fog
invading
Stonewind and
Carquinez Strait, apparently way up the lowland corridor beelining towards Sacramento,
Diablo Valley College Music History
paper grading at the budget breakfast bonanza, more brilliant students / music / (hopefully) commentary, and the
20th-Century Music II quiz (Prokofiev, Cowell, Gershwin, Copland, Partch, Shostakovich... for this re-telling), looking ahead to the below:
Write a Four-Note Passage:
Forwards (Prime)
Backwards (Retrograde)
Upside-Down (Inversion) and
Backwards Upside-Down (Retrograde-Inversion)
Instrumentation of Three Types of Jazz Band:
Dixieland (New Orleans Style)
1-2 Clarinets, 1-2 Trumpets, Trombone, Banjo, Piano, Tuba/Bass, Drums
Big Band (Swing)
4-5 Saxes, 4-5 Trumpets, 4-5 Trombones, Guitar, Piano, Bass, Drums
Bebop
Sax, Trumpet, Trombone, Guitar, Piano, Bass, Drums
Listening:
John Cage - Sonata No. 5
Dizzy Gillespie - Shaw 'Nuff
Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story: Cool
Pierre Boulez - Le Marteau Sans Maitre: I (The Hammer without Master)
Chuck Berry - Maybellene
George Crumb - Black Angels
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Linger with make-ups, lunch and
belated quiz-grading at Elephant Bar,
returning again
under what has been
another miraculous clearing to more musical fun and games.... i.e.... composition of The Decameron - Day 2, 42, pdf re San Timoteo Can[yon]tata, 29.
