Bret arrives for some announcements in Theory,
where we also sight sing the Gregorian Chant Haec Dies,
do Board Harmony (our first of the semester!) on the Scholia Enchiriadis (c. 850) Nos Qui Vivimus (Parallel Fifths / Fourths) and
Rex Caeli (+ Oblique / Contrary Motion), and hear fine
Student Composition 1's from Yelim and others.
Substitute teach for
Owen's Music History Class
thereafter,
on
the
first
(and hopefully only!)
day of winter --
by far coldest of this year (and last, since 2018 had no days with highs lower than 50), high crashing down 10 to 46 (Fairfield, 45; Pleasant Hill, 47).
After errands academic
and --
beyond
the fast
pavement --
vehicular (low tire pressure issue in the continuing cold mornings-extending-into-not-much-improved afternoons weather),
return breathlessly to edit page 53 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act IV, and compose
Broke Dance Suite, Op. 290: IVb10d. ...de Poitou (Double)
Adrian Le Roy, Igor Stravinsky
and
Book of Revelation, Op. 296 (2019)
Opera Oratorio after John of Patmos, AD 6-100
Chapter VIII - Seventh Seal (Anabolic, Quarter = 160, 3/4; Histrionic, Quarter = 48, 3/4)
Piccolo, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Tuba
John, Great Voice, Enormous Crowd
Harp, Piano, Chimes, Xylophone, Arco Strings
Sources
Primary
Alban Berg (1885-1935) - Lulu (1935)
Secondary
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Quartet for the End of Time (1941)
Turangalila (1948)
Lukas Foss (1922-2009) - Time Cycle (1960)
William Francis McBeth (1933-2012)
Masque, Op. 44 (1967)
The Seventh Seal, Op. 50 (1972)
"Seventh Seal!"
Then I saw seven angels from God.
They were given seven trumpets.
Rumblings and such thundering.
First Angel blew a trumpet:
Hail, fire came raining down
Second Angel blew a trumpet:
Mountains fell into the sea
Third Angel blew a trumpet:
Large star fell into the lakes
Fourth Angel blew a trumpet:
Third of the sun blotted out.
... appropriately and serendipitously enough, 12/7 pages total...
