October 29 - Armchair Travailer

Harriet out on an all-day job and more, while the labours at home include fininishing the edits for Psalm 35 "Strive with Them" (through page 8), plus videos for Embedded Inventions: XIII. Stravinsky and



XIV. Cha-Cha. Also work on the November and December 2010 issues of 21st-Century Music, embedding video and providing author links (the latter for the first time), and begin editing Psalm 36.

October 28 - Refined Passages

Another edited page (4) of Psalm 35, a late missive a la mere, and Quiz 11 for the Theoreticians -- with musical examples drawn from Duke Ellington, Olivier Messiaen, Bela Bartok, John Cage, Jester Hairston, and Richards Rodgers and Berry. Beeline home



thereafter for videos re



Embedded Inventions: XI. Terminal and



XII. Shimmer Henry.

October 27 - Cool, Collected

For the day's accounting: videos of Embedded Inventions: IX. Lurch and



X. Joy; third page edited for Psalm 35; the discovery of an Alban Berg Wozzeck film on YouTube, and the rest of the Richard Rodgers Do-Re-Mi song for the Theoreticians. More paper grading and Elephant Barring, then the



History of Rock class with more



60's and beyond next week.

October 26 - More Highs

The day's endeavors include videos for Embedded Inventions: VII. Cascade and



VIII. Beethoven and Mahler, a second edited page of Psalm 35, and a belated postal greeting to the patient Steve Adams. Theory gets a quintuple dose of videos: Deploration Passacaglias: Couperin, Bach, and Handel -- plus the 12-tone fugato that is part of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story: Cool and Richard Rodgers's The Sound of Music: Do-Re-Mi for dictation/keyboard-solfege. Paper grading at Elephant Bar and beyond, then Music Literature class from Franz Liszt to John Philip Sousa, looking ahead to the



Early 20th-Century.

October 25 - Tropic of Can, Sir

Do the day's videos (Embedded Inventions: VI. Beguine and



V. Chromasyncop), begin editing Psalm 35, and mail out the MTNA Composition Competitions material -- before the



blastoff to DVC for Duke Ellington's Concerto for Cootie as dictation and board harmony.



Home thereafter, via a financial stop, to embed more videos on the Music History blog in preparation for the evening classes.

October 24 - As We Know It

Work on 21st-Century Music Journal, editing a nice interview with David Sanford by Tom Moore for the belated September issue, with further work on November and beginning December -- also place some embedded YouTube videos at 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com for the first time ('bout time, since have been doing it here and at markalburgerworks.blogspot.com and markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com for some time) plus table-of-contents links a la the Music History site (again, seems auspicious). Furthur, as the bus had it, finish edits for Psalm 34 (7 pages total) and do the seredipitous Embedded Inventions: IV. Snake and



III. Ghost.

October 23 - Sounds New

Serve as the judge for the 2010 MTNA California Student Composition Competitions -- having the pleasure of playing through a lot of excellent music, sorry that all cannot receive first prizes.



Beyond this, begin editing Psalm 34 (first 3 pages) on another day in which the sun don't shine, and start videos for Embedded Inventions with I. Laura and



II. Drone.