November 7 - Up in Mirrors
Another day, another Double Piano Concerto ("Fellow Travellers"): II page (7) composed,
misting
up
enroute
down
viewful
680
to
DVC
for
Quiz 12 with the Theoreticians -- the for-keeps examples drawn from works by Paul McCartney, Leonard Bernstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Roger Waters, and Willie Dixon.
Homeward
bound
again
through
various
spectacularities
of
singular
meteorological
import
primarilly
along
the
680
corridor,
at least finish one belated batch of Music Literature quizzes,
returning for that class's adventures from the aforesaid Dixon through George Crumb, listening and looking ahead as below:
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Two Classic Rock Chord Progressions:
Please Mr. Postman
C Am F G
I vi IV V
I Want to Hold Your Hand
C G Am Em
I V vi iii
(C chord = C-E-G
Am chord = A-C-E
F chord = F-A-C
G chord = G-B-D
Em chord = E-G-B)
Instrumentation of Two Typical New-Music Ensembles
Stravinsky Histoire
Clarinet
Bassoon
Trumpet
Trombone
Drums
Violin
Bass
Schoenberg Pierrot
Flute
Clarinet
Piano
Violin
Cello
Three Recent Styles of Jazz:
Cool
Free
Fusion
Listening:
[8915] Willie Dixon - Hoochie Coochie Man
[8917] Dizzy Gillespie - Shaw 'Nuff
[8918] Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story: Cool
[8925] Pierre Boulez - Le Marteau Sans Maitre (The Masterless Hammer): I
[8926] Chuck Berry - Maybellene
[89290 George Crumb - Black Angels
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In the later hours, compose The Decameron - Third Day: Novel V. "Ricciardo Zima Gives a Horse to Messer Francesco Vergellesi" (page 5) and do pdf of At a Photo Shop (4).