February 5 - Harmony of the World
The Overtone Series, plus
Bass Clef Inversions Board Melody work with the Theoreticians,
on the still-rather-chilly 35th day of spring,
high again 52 (51 in Pleasant Hill),
snow on Twin Sisters
and,
farther
south,
Contra
Costa's
Mt. Diablo.
Upon
return
up
scenic 680
and
80 -- think it auspicious, given the recent health bout, to edit page 46 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act IV, finish
The Decameron, Op. 289
100 Novels for Voices and Instruments, after the work (1353) of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
Tenth Day / Novel VIII
Sophronia, albeit she deems herself wife to Gisippus, is wife to Titus Quintius Fulvus
and
Broke Dance Suite, Op. 290
IVb6. Bergamasque Mask (Rustic) - Gabriel Faure, Arnold Schoenberg
plus begin
BOOK OF REVELATION, Op. 296
Opera-Oratorio after John of Patmos (AD 6-100)
with
CHAPTER I - I AM THE ALPHA (Exotic, Dotted Quarter = 120, 6/8)
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Tuba
John, Great Voice
Harp, Vibraphone, Marimba, Arco Strings
Sources
Primary
Arnold Schoenberg (1974-1951) - A Survivor from Warsaw (1947)
Secondary
John Stainer (1804-1901) - I Am the Alpha (1878)
Vladimir Rebikov (1866-1920) - Alpha and Omega (1911)
"I am the Alpha
and the Omega
I am the first and
I am the last, so
Write what you see
down in a book"
Fell at his feet as
dead
"Fear not.
I am the first and
I am the last I
am he that liveth
and was dead and
I am alive for
ever
I have the keys of
death
Write what you see
down in a book,
Things which are,
Things which shall be
Hence here-
after."
... respectively 31, 11, and 4 pages total...