Hope you're doing OK in these fast-changing, traumatic times!
So, here's the Romantic II - Part 1 (Monday / Tuesday / first-half-of-Friday Week-of-March-16-20)
Lecture.
This is our initial "class meeting" for the week, but you can listen / take notes / watch anytime M-F...
The whole YouTube playlist is at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV6L6JS94UM&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcd1GLSXY-oo6AGIXiChiQWI
Individual parts are...
Romantic II (1a1. Schubert to Chopin)
https://youtu.be/GV6L6JS94UM
(N.B. Monty Python Chopin Piano Sonata blocked)
Romantic II (1a2. Chopin to Verdi)
https://youtu.be/7L2RT3P6AHU
(N.B. Chopin Prelude in E Minor and Verdi La Traviata blocked)
Romantic II (1a3. Verdi / Wagner)
https://youtu.be/RKVE8lK0FI8
(N.B. Wagner Gotterdammerung blocked)
Romantic II (1b1. Wagner to Borodin)
https://youtu.be/g-vX0ecZk8M
Romantic II (1b2. Borodin to Saint-Saens)
https://youtu.be/7u2-9b0zEs0
Romantic II (1b3. Saint-Saens / Bizet)
https://youtu.be/tAPVSy7nraI
Please take original / personal class notes on the session (hand-written or typed --
this will be half of your weekly participation grade!)
and submit by 6pm, Friday, March 20, along with Romantic II take-home quiz
(in all cases either pdfs or well-focussed jpegs), as email attachments to
mus21stc@gmail.com (or my DVC email)
And, no worries, you can submit late and still get an A, as always...
Wishing you happiness and health / courage and strength!
***
More
impossible
lines at
Solano
Winco,
it's
come
to
this at Alamo Walgreens (not on the Camino Real):
stocking up at least on facial tissue,
resources at home being so low that even coffee filters have been considered.
Reading up in the San Francisco Chronicle on everything,
Harriet is delayed at the pharmacy to receive essential salle de bain supplies just as they are being offloaded from a delivery truck.
Onward to the
'proximate Pony Express Trail in the Sacramento Valley,
from Silveyville Double Driveway Parking to the
Tower
and
back,
on the
one-heck-of-a-cold-day...
4th of winter,
high down 8 to 49 (Dixon, 46), tying with January 7th as coldest of year (bested only by January 19's 48).
Meanwhile, San Francisco Mayor London Breed orders a Shelter-in-Place,
a snow storm engulfs the Sierra
(which may account for part of the supply-chain problems),
Stephen Colbert presents his show from the bathtub and the
Coronavirus perspective of his Uninformed Reporter, Robin "Bootsie" Plunkett.
Also produce
Music History, Op. 335
VIII. Romantic Music II
2c. Dvorak to Janacek
and
2d. Sousa to Puccini
