Like
Camelot, it only rains at night, and the
day
is
a
spectacular
one,
of
the
still-moist
persuasion
on
the
road
to
Week 10 with the Theoreticians -- Added Tones: Dictation / Keyboard-Solfege / Board Harmony on Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, video excerpts from Alban Berg's Wozzeck, scales (C#, G#, D# Minor; B Major), I-IV-V progressions in C and Eb, and the beginning of Round 3 compositions with intriguing works from
John and
Allan.
Discover after class that the iPhone's cover has lost its integrity, so
proceed
with
alacrity
up
the
still-
aerially-
active airway of the autobahn to the
ATT Store to purchase a new, although plug-ugly, one (removing its loud white bulky-plastic-spongy cover helps, but the sleekness of the old is in this emergency situation only weakly replicated in this bony, ungracious one). In a moment of distraction, misplace the earbuds, and so am obliged to buy a new improved pair (seems to tangle less, may be better sound, but will it actually work for communication). The original ones turn up almost immediately after driving away. Upon return, begin pdf for Lot in Life: III. Parking Lot's Wife, and composition of The Decameron - Third Day: IV. "Dom Felice Has a Good Time with Fra Puccio's Wife" (page 3). Thinking about semi-requited love, begin Opus 208, planning for a seven-movement work as
Troubadour Songs
I. William IX of Aquitaine (1071–1126)
Farai un vers pos mi sonelh
II. Marcabru (c. 1100-1150)
L'autrier jost una sebissa
III. Jaufre Rudel (1117-1147)
Quan lo rius de la fontana
IV. Bernart de Ventadorn (1130–1200)
Non es meravelha s'en chan
V. Guiraut de Bornelh (c. 1138 – 1215)
Reis glorios
VI. Bertran de Born (1140's – by 1215)
Rassa, tan creid e monta e pol
VII. Raimbaut de Vaqueiras (1150-1207)
Kalinda maya
and proceed to compose movement IV in its entirety.
