Monday, March 15, 2010
March 15 - The Ides of the Morning After
Unload the box platforms, stairsteps, and tables at home; petrol up the van (to the tune of $26+ for a mere roundtrip to SF),
return it (with seemingly
mountains everywhere),
and make the way past
Eden and
Horse Farm to
Diablo for an introduction to Romantic harmony -- including F Minor (Natural and Harmonic), Ab and Db Major, the Chromatic Scale, C Aug/Maj/Min/Dim Triads, Orchestration, Half-Diminished and Diminished 7ths, musical examples from Hector Berlioz and Richard Wagner, and a dictation / board harmony on Frederic Chopin's Prelude in E Minor.
Record beginning of Psalm 110 and all of Vespers: III. Nigra sum, returning past the Mothball Fleet,
Trash Valley and Stonewind,
Wooded Top, and the
Suburbs Slopes to continue publication-preparation of Psalm 10 (3), and writing fourth page of Vespers: IV. Psalm 112.