October 13 - Explosive Findings

Third page of Psalm 32, a DVC explique of early 20th-century music techniques -- specifically Claude Debussy, Scott Joplin, Igor Stravinsky (the atonal folks eventually) -- and brilliant student compositions. After class, Bruce Cook asks me to substitute for three more Monte Bairos classes tomorrow -- following a bit of hesitation, this is accepted, and the rest of the afternoon is spent (after a bookstore run for lunch) with more Music History blog updates and embeddings, with the new evening History of Rock class going pleasantly/smoothly in its second installment, from Chuck Berry to Elvis Presley, with a quiz on roughly the same




next week.

(N.B. re above:

Monophonic - One line of music, strictly performed
Heterophonic - One line of music, freely performed
Polyphonic - More than one line; lines of roughly equal importance
Homophonic - More than one line; one line more important than the others)



Home late, and yet still cannot settle down right away, so something like videos for Deploration Passacaglias: VII. Bach and



VIII. Handel are done.

October 6 - Diablos All

Psalm 31 page 3 edited, then pencil in the trip to DVC for Charles Ives's Variations on America Spanish variant for dictation / board harmony / keyboard-solfege. Blitz round-trip again for errant instructional material and R&B / 50's rock video embedding on the music history blog, rendezvous'ing at Monty Bairos's palatial office to go over the logistics for the changing-of-the-guard in the Wednesday evening class. Set up in adjacent classroom (with welcome perspective from Mark Steidel), as transition time in the assigned spot seems overly tight (Bruce Cooke holding a class there mere minutes before the appointed hour). The clock strikes whatever, Monty gives his quiz, then group and I head down hall for new venue, with music from



Joe Turner to Chuck Berry, with a guess-what next week (N.B. 8913 for Waters).... Seems like it all works, and time will tell -- for now, head back to finish up editing the Job: A Masque videos with



X. "Who Are You" and



XI. "Lord Blessed the Last Part"