September 11 - Smoke Alert


11 years -- thinking about Animists, Buddhists, Christians, Confucianists, Hindus, Jainists, Jews, Muslims, Secular Humanists, Shintoists, Sikhs, Taoists, Wiccans, and on and on... and who are under- and over-represented amongst the elites worldwide...


Ah, the seeming insignificance of the individual -- billions and billions served -- but what can one do but go on?


In the present case, pdf of Missa California: Credo (page 7),


off


through



the


natural /


industrial


telephotographic


glare


to


Diablo


Valley


College


for the Orkney Islands Hymn to St. Magnus (perhaps the earliest written example of harmony in thirds) for Dictation / Board Harmony in Theory, spins on the Kyrie IV in florid organal style and Guillaume de Machaut's La Messe de Nostre Dame: Kyrie (four-part contrapuntal harmony, featuring color / talea / isorhythm / on the same tenor as the previous organum, this latter including a video presentation),  followed by more delightful student compositions.


Bela Bartok and music from The Decameron (surprise, surprise...)


seem to be in the air


on the return trip,


also plenteous smoke from a grass fire put out yesterday at Gold Camp Road,


but somehow rekindled


in the


mid-afternoon


semi-heat.


Return for detail-edits of Triple Concerto: III (page 35) and The Decameron - Second Day: V (pages 23-24) while finishing taking in the six installments of  


Monty Python: Almost the Truth (2009). Also compose 21-22 of D-SD:VII and learn more re the digital camera: to wit,


distant and



rapid settings.