Sun didn't get above 1 candlepower all day. Constant drizzle.
No musical explorations. Listened to the Mozart horn trio in the car. That man could write tunes, nice sine wavy tunes all balanced. I do wonder what Mozart tunes would be like clothed in the trappings of Brahms, taking away the sequences and the cadential decoration, replacing them with tricks of Brahms' time. Somewhere on the net it theorizes that if Mozart had lived longer he might have burned out but written prolifically, and become another Spohr (who is savagely ignored in my opinion - some cracking clarinet and violin concerti).
Also listened to part of a new Naxos CD of Ferdinand Ries flute quartets. I like Ries. One day last summer I had two management away days near Consett and spent the drives there and back in the company of the Ries symphonies. Unfair to say he's merely Beethoven's imitator even though Beethoven said as much.
Tried to help my niece with Grade 6 Theory - realised I have forgotten much of the theoretical harmonic language shorthand. Never was much of a one for figured bass either. Ah well.
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