September 30 - Shadows


181st day of summer,


high down a tick to 88 --


more


videos


and


catch-up, with the orchestration of page 6 Psalms, Book IV, Op. 202: XI-XII (2011): Psalm 103-104 "O Bless the Lord my Soul"...

September 29 - Dead of Night


Samuel Becket - Waiting for Godot (1949)

ACT II

. . .

POZZO: (suddenly furious.)

Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? (Calmer.) They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. (He jerks the rope.) On!

. . .



VLADIMIR:

Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be?

(Estragon, having struggled with his boots in vain, is dozing off again. Vladimir looks at him.) He'll know nothing. He'll tell me about the blows he received and I'll give him a carrot. (Pause.) Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. (He listens.) But habit is a great deadener. (He looks again at Estragon.) At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on. (Pause.) I can't go on! (Pause.) What have I said?

***


Nothing to be done (Whoops!  That's Endgame [1957])


but


take


in


some


videos, in parallel to attempting to get ahead of all the work, including orchestrating page 5 Psalms, Book IV, Op. 202: XI-XII (2011): Psalm 103-104 "O Bless the Lord my Soul".  180th day of summer, high down 2 to 89...

September 28 - Vision


Andrew Brooks looks at the x-rays and recommends shots rather than operation at present,


on a day that also features the Theoreticians dealing with Quiz 7: Late Baroque / Classic / Early Romantic Haromony,


with musical examples drawn from works of J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, Franz Xaver Gruber, and Frederic Chopin. 


179th day of


summer,


high down 2 to 91


(93 in


Pleasant Hill;


70, Pinole) --


delightfully


buzzing


about


to the appointment and later orchestration re page 4 Psalms, Book IV, Op. 202: XI-XII (2011): Psalm 103-104 "O Bless the Lord my Soul" upon return...

September 27 - Advanced Romantic

C Chromatic Scale



Instruments in a Large Orchestra 
(Draw a seating plan



or list in an idealized score order, as below)

Woodwinds
[4] Flute
[4] Oboe
[4] Clarinet
[4] Bassoon

Brass
[4] Trumpet
[8] French Horn
[3] Trombone
[1] Tuba

Percussion
Harp
Piano
Mallets
Battery
Timpani

Strings
[17] Violin I
[15] Violin II
[13] Viola
[11] Cello
[9] Bass



Listening (YouTube links + optional Wikipedia, etc., ones)


Johannes Brahms - Variations on a Theme by Haydn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRu7CMg6wSs

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

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


Camille Saint-Saens - Requiem: II. Dies Irae (Day of Wrath)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaUwfg4emcU (@ c. 5:10)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Saint-Saëns

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_(Saint-Saëns)


Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No. 2: Solveig's Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2gDFJWhXp8 (@ 27:35)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_Gynt_(Grieg)


Anatoly Liadov - Baba Yaga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HpYaeJ60OU

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

http://www.allmusic.com/composition/baba-yaga-for-orchestra-op-56-mc0002355719


Carl Nielsen - Clarinet Concerto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYjcaLKYOkU&t=217s

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarinet_Concerto_(Nielsen)


Erik Satie - En Habit de Cheval (In Horse's Clothing)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rydzqT1E0Khttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Satie4

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

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

***


Finally meet


Rashid Iqbal for consultation,


after


another session with the hopefully well-entertained and


visibly hard-working Music History class,



on


the


178th


day


summer,


high again 93 (Pleasant Hill, 92;


San


Ramon,


90) --


blitzing


hastily



north


thereafter --


iwith general catch-up and orchestration, re page 3 Psalms, Book IV, Op. 202: XI-XII (2011): Psalm 103-104 "O Bless the Lord my Soul" over various videos...

September 26 - Wake Up!


J.S. Bach's Cantata 140 ("Wachet Auf"): VII. Chorale as Dictation / Board Harmony for the Theoreticians,


followed by more amazing Student Compositions,


on


the fabulos 177th day of summer,


high up 3 to 93 --


Pleasant Hill, 92


Martinez, 89
Pinole, 86 --


returning


on


80


to


errands


and more orchestration (page 2) re Psalm 103-104 "O Bless the Lord my Soul"....