MARK ALBURGER, 2019: November 2019

November 30 - As the Rain Falls

Home all day with Harriet, with general catch-up and composition re page 16

No Exit, Op. 330
IV. Don't Look Up

partially over Rex Stout

Nero Wolfe

Mystery episodes,

on the 2nd day of winter and just about coldest day of the year thus far (high down 8 to 48), bested (or worsted) only by February 12's 46... .62 additional precip, for 1.36 for this month, beginning the 2019-2020 rainy season...

November 29 - These Things Happen

Tragicomic occurances in the Sierra Foothills,

while we remain snug at home,

eventually

heading

out

for

errands,

on the 8th day of fall,

high up 6 to 56, composing page 15

No Exit, Op. 330
IV. Don't Look Up

November 28 - Lights, Camera, Thanks

Thanksgiving at Brian and Gigi's,

with Harriet, Megan, Kelly, Lois, Aunt Carol, Edna, Carol Jean, et. al --

including music, of course -- the cold / spritzy (.01 additional precip., for .74, from 2 days ago), high again down 2 to 50 (coldest since February 12's 46 [the only day of "winter" -- i.e. high below 50 -- so far this past year])...

Fairfield, 51
Martinez, 48
Pleasant Hill, 49

... composing page 14

No Exit, Op. 330
IV. Don't Look Up

upon return...

November 27 - Circular Sonics

[Josquin des Pres, intent on Exam, Part I -- Tuesday, December 10, Pleasant Hill / Wednesday, December 11, San Ramon / Friday, Decemeber 13, Late Start]

Write Any Major Scale -- Except C -- with Solfege

Write Any Minor Scale -- Except A -- with Solfege

List Six Periods of Aesthetic History, before the 20th Century, with Dates

Including: Ancient, 3500 BC (BCE) - AD 400 (CE)

Listening

Greece - First Delphic Hymn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnkVaPKlf_U

http://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/1197218

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/01/anonymous-athenian-b-c-168-bc.html

Timbre - Brass Ensemble, Electric Guitar, Drum

Form - Through-Composed

Style - Ancient

Italy - Trotto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aegyz0H31Uo (@ 36:10)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/composers-of-iialian-dances-b-c-1270.html

https://www.allmusic.com/composition/trotto-dance-for-instrumental-ensemble-mc0002367874
(Despite Blue Gene Tyranny's fine write up - the composition is in G Dorian)

Timbre - Medieval Ensemble, including Flute, Bombard (Oboe), Pressure Drum, Vielle (Violin)

Form - Rondo (AABACABACA)

Style - Medieval

Josquin des Pres - Scaramella

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu7-USz4F0k

https://www.allmusic.com/composition/scaramella-va-alla-guerra-song-for-4-parts-mc0002364210

http://imslp.org/wiki/Scaramella_(Josquin_Desprez)

Timbre - 4-Part Male Chorus (SATB Notation)

Form - Binary AB (or AA'), repeated in this performance

Style - Renaissance

J.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 1: I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kI1Ab6_Xfk
(with notation)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Concertos

http://imslp.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Concerto_No.1_in_F_major,_BWV_1046_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian)

Timbre - [3] Oboes, [2] French Horns, Strings, Continuo (Bassoon / Harpsichord / Low Strings)

Form - Ritournello
[Rondo-like - one main theme, returning in fragments, with contrasting variants]

Style - Baroque

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"): IV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IInG5nY_wrU (@ 57:15)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Beethoven)

http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.9,_Op.125_(Beethoven,_Ludwig_van)

Timbre - Vocal Soloists, Chorus, Large Orchestra

Form - Theme and Variations

Style - Late Classical / Early Romantic

Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 4: III

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QLuYj2jxoc [23:33 - 29:25]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Brahms)

http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.4,_Op.98_(Brahms,_Johannes)

Timbre - Large Orchestra

Form - Sonata-Allegro

Style - Romantic

***

Quiz 14 for the DVCSR Music Historians, with some technical challenges (obliged to use school computer w/ no audio, running sound from laptop through same w/ occasional over-bassy results),

lunch at

Gale Ranch Subway,

walking thereafter on the San-Ramon-to-Pleasant-Hill western route --

Green

Valley

Ridge

Mt Diablo

Fence Parking,

with another inspection of

Macedo Ranch following, on the chilly 6th day of fall, high down 2 to 52 (locally and in Martinez, coolest since February 8's 51) --

Fairfield / Pleasant Hill, 53
Danville, 48
San Ramon, 47

... composing page 13

No Exit, Op. 330
IV. Don't Look Up

November 26 - Rise and Fall

First rainfall of the July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020 season...

a healthy .73 inch, high crashing down 11 to 54 (locally and in Pleasant Hill, Fairfield / Martinez, 53... lowest since March 9's identical),

slogging towards the Diablo Valley College Tuesday Historians,

with 21st-Century Music repertory, returning home to compose page 12

No Exit, Op. 330
IV. Don't Look Up

November 25 - Uncertain Futures

21st-Century Music for the

DVC San Ramon Group,

then errands in on the main campus

and

another

brief walk on the Pony Express route,

still along Cherry Glen,

from Pleasants Valley Parking to west to Deer Sign in view of the Vaca and Lagoon Mountains, on the 4th day of fall, high down 5 to 65...

Fairfield / Martinez, 66
Pleasant Hill, 67
Danville / San Ramon, 63

... thereafter composing page 11

No Exit, Op. 330
IV. Don't Look Up

November 24 - Sunset for Now

Errands about town,

on perhaps the last --

230! --

day of summer (high down 2 to 70),

and, if so, figures for the season as

20 Days 100's / 72 Days 90's / 67 Days 80's / 71 Days 70's

159 Days 80+

92 Days 90+

composing page 10
No Exit, Op. 330
IV. Don't Look Up