March 2 - Over the Top


J.S. Bach's Passacaglia in C Minor and Prelude in C Major for the Theoreticians re Dictation / Board Harmony,


plus Quiz 5, with examples drawn from works of Josquin des Pres, Costanzo Festa, Henry VIII, Louis Bourgeois, and Claudio Monteverdi --


the Music Building abuzz with activity,


on


the


eye-


popping


58th


day


of


spring,


high


68


(locally


and


in


Pleasant Hill;


66 in Pinole),


tying for the


highest of year


thus far with


February 14 --


returning to finish Ezra Pounds, Op. 263: I. Exile / Return (Ezra / Nehemiah), 14 pages total, and a orchestrating a fourth system of the Ludwig van Beethoven Rondo in C Major, Op. 51, as Op. 264...