Substitute teach in four classes -- two each for Bret (Baroque) and Owen (Theory), beginning with the former's 8am group and continuing with Owen's 4th semester posse, where we prepare for their upcoming Theme and Variations project with dictation on the Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) - Partite sopra l'Aria della Romanesca (1616), followed by a blitz through the repertory videowise, with sightsinging and analysis...
Irish Virginal Book (b. c. 1540) - Variations on The Romanesca (1570)
England (b. c. 1620) - Greensleeves to a Ground (1650)
Johannes Pachelbel (1653-1708) - Canon for Three Violins and Cello in D (1694)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695) - Dido and Aeneas: When I Am Laid in Earth (1689)
J.S. Bach (1685-1750) - Organ Passacaglia in C Minor (1713)
F.J. Haydn (1732-1809) - Symphony No. 94 ("Surprise") (1791)
W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) - Variations on "Ah, Vous Dirai-Je Maman" (1781)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - Symphony No. 7, Op. 92: II. Allegretto (1812)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) - Totentanz (1853)
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) - Rigoletto: Bella Figlia (1851)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) - Symphony No. 8: I. Fantasia Variazioni Senza Tema (1955)
Charles Ives (1874-1954) - Variations on America (1891)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) - Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31 (1928)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) - Ebony Concerto: III. Moderato (1945)
Alban Berg (1885-1935) - Wozzeck: Act I, Scene 3, Lullaby (1922)
Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941) - Dead Man Blues (1926)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) - Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (1936)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) - Appalachian Spring: Variations on a Shaker Tune (1944)
Joe Garland (1903-1977) - In the Mood (1939)
John Cage (1911-1992) - Variations V (1965)
Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997) - Study No. 3 ("Boogie-Woogie Suite") (1949)
Benjamnin Britten (1913-1976) - Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 (1946)
Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994) - Paganini Variations (1941)
Thelonius Monk (1917-1982) - Misterioso (1948)
George Crumb (b. 1929) - Vox Balaenae (1971)
Steve Reich (b. 1936) - Octet (1979)
Philip Glass (b. 1937) - Einstein on the Beach (1975)
Roger Waters (b. 1943) - Wish You Were Here: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (1975)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) - Variations and Theme, Op. 6 (1976)
The second semester assemblage follows with leading-tone triads, seventh chords,
dictation and board harmony on Purcell above.
Before
this,
the
gauntlet
of
the
commute
south
on
680;
after,
a visit to Carol who is convalescing, but in dizzyingly excellent spirits.
Returning
to
Diablo,
rendezvous with Bret's late afternoon group, then proceed, via further detours,
to the monthly
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra Board meeting, where we settle on instrumentation (dependent on last-minute email confirmations) and intent to put out the Call for Scores by the weekend.
Homeward
late,
and miles to go, with
piano-vocal score and
visual libretto to Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232: XI. 1889 - Carl Moll (Alma's Mother's Second Lover)
and
XII. 1890 - Franz Viktor Werfel (Alma's Third Husband), plus composition re
Estampies, Op. 249: II. La Seconde Estampie Real
Quintet ("Bullets"), Op. 250, page 2
Variations on the Romanesca, Op. 251 (2016):
II. Braye Lute Book (b. c. 1530) - Pavana (Variations on The Romanesca, 1560)
19th day of summer, high for the third day in a row, 73...
