August 30 - Rites of Fall Semester


Quiz 2 for the Theoreticians,


with musical examples drawn from Sol Bloom, India, Japan, Greece, and Gregorian Chant --


following the morning Missa California: Gloria (9) pdf


and


scenic


80 /


680


bit.


After


an


extended


session,


buzz


through


Franklin


Canyon and


across the Bay to


Marin for


more


paper grading (all A's, again),


errands including


post box


check,


and another impressively circuituous return... this time 101,


Rowland


and


Novato


Boulevards,


Point Reyes /


Petaluma and


Frates Roads,


Old Adobe to 116,


12


past


Stornetta's


and 


Domaine Carneros,


29 cross Napa and up towards


Montecito,


over the Western Vaca Mountains


to


Wooden Valley, down through the canyon, lateralling across via Mankas Corner


to Waterman


and


Hillborn; with still enough energy remaining to detail-edit page 23 of Triple Concerto for Bassoon, Contrabassoon, and Harp: III and finish the composition of The Decameron - Second Day: IV. Landolfo Ruffalo Turns Corsair and Is Shipwrecked (16 pages total, with further allusions to Leonard Bernstein's Candide and Alban Berg's Wozzeck).