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).