October 19 - The Hills Are Allied

Page 5 of Psalm 33 edited, and more videos favorited on YouTube, until the time comes to proceed past the Vaca Mountains, English Hills, et al., to Diablo Valley College and Part II of the Kurt Weill Threepenny Opera: Ballad of Mac the Knife dictation / board-harmony, plus more wondrous student compositions.


The seemingly typical Tuesday-at-Elephant-Bar-grading-papers follows, then back for more of same and



evening Music Literature class from William Billings to Frederic Chopin, with leaps ahead for Giuseppe Verdi, Gustav Mahler, Scott Joplin, and greetings from Maria, Ben Abar, and Kamo.



Home to embed videos for tomorrow night's Rock History class, and think about videos for



Deploration Passacaglias: XIX. Stravinsky and



XX. Weill.

October 5 - Under Palm-Tossed Skies

Second page of Psalm 31 ignited before the pilgrimage to Diablo Valley College, returning to the interior of the classroom for a dictation and board harmony on Giuseppe Verdi's Aida: Act II - Triumphal Entry, plus engaging student compositions.



Next, break for the church of Elephant Bar,



lingering for an extended time to pay homage re make up quizzes for the evening class, returning with more embedding of Baroque videos onto the markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com site -- making it all the way up to the last assigned listening for the evening: J.S. Bach's Organ Fugue in G Minor ("Little").



Those of us in Music Literature backtrack through the High Renaissance to Henry Purcell, then leap to the rest of the musique quizqurete and beyond towards



next week's Classical revels. The day's festivities end typically Tuesdayish, with Doug,



Owen, and Melanie at BJ's, then home for more Job: A Masque video madness:



V. "Place a Curse" and



VII. "Empty Words" -- the former utilizing the cutaway option, using the video from 6/17/10 and the audio from 6/19 in sychronization... grateful for Marty Stoddard's steady tempi!

September 28 - Think, Think

Well, here we are in Music Literature taking the evening Renaissance Quiz -- you don't have to thank me... -- and looking ahead to the



Baroque. Before that, in roughly reverse order, was embedding YouTube videos on the Music History blog over lunch at China Garden, Music Theory dictation / keyboard-solfege re the W.A. Mozart Sonata in C Major (K. 545, first 4 bars of movement I -- followed by wonderful student compositions), some 21st-Century Music work with Laurie Curran of EBSCO, and the beginning editing for Psalm 30.



After, a departure into that good night with Owen, Doug, and Melanie; and return for the decidedly different musical bar lines of video for



Nocturnes for Insomniacs: I. Night Music I and



II. Day Music -- somehow appropriate, given the hottest night of the year, making for challenging rest...