Yes, a lot of the world gets up before 7am, including present company this morning,
turning on to I-80 and down the
680
corridor
to
Diablo
Valley College to sub for Monsieur Bairos in
Chamber Music, four self-starting ensembles (woodwind, brass, percussion, string), independent enough that one can finish the editing of
Psalm 32 (7 pages total). Guitar class is much more hands-on, and we make our way through 12-bar blues progressions, new chords, and syncopations. An hour-and-a-half break, more work on the Music History blog (mostly Bob Dylan),
Theory Quiz 9 (which could involve a glowing Cinderella pen) -- with examples drawn from Charles Ives, Scott Joplin, Claude Debussy, and Igor Stravinsky -- and lab recording of
Psalm 32 ("Blessed Is One") follow, as does more Music History Dylanesque blogging, before the Night Band, which has evidently been cancelled by a Facebook posting (suspected but not confirmed until the hour). Homeward it is then, for videos of
Deploration Passacaglias: IX. Mozart and
X. Beethoven.
