Up relatively early and hard at it, catching up at 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com,
then dictation from Elton John's The Lion King: The Circle of Life in Theory...
9 bars of the chorus, in slightly simplified rhythm (insofar as the sheet music is concerned)
Bb:
Sol Sol Sol Sol Mi Re Do
Mi Mi Fa Sol La So Fa
La La Sol Mi Re Do La Sol
Sol Fa Mi Re Do
Harmony:
V I6
VI (V of ii) ii
bvi (altered/simplified from original) I64 V7
IV64 I
A very useful passage with a wild added ("non-harmonic"/ "non-chord") tone in m5 (melodic G against bass Gb), nice use of the cadential 64, the authentic-cadence harmony interrupted by the second-inversion plagal cadence. "Amen" -- what better way for a mystic baboon to usher a regal feline into the larger world?
Home briefly, getting ready for an array of listenings -- Cole Porter, Giacomo Puccini, Richard Rodgers, Steven Schwartz, Igor Stravinsky, The Who, Kurt Weill, Meredith Willson -- returning to school in evening to continue discussion of music c. 1960-80.
Last week's classic minimalists; this week: Bob Dylan, John Lennon / Paul McCartney / The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Simon / Art Garfunkel, Andy Summers, Brian Wilson / The Beach Boys, Gavin Bryars, George Harrison, Mick Jagger / The Rolling Stones, Meredith Monk, David Gilmour, Michael Nyman, Jimmy Page / Robert Plant / Led Zeppelin, Roger Waters / Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, Syd Barrett, Howard Shore, John Adams (above), David Bowie, Elton John, Brian Eno, Andrew Lloyd Webber. Rather a lot, really.
Off to Left Bank thereafter as the classic Mark-Owen-Doug triumvirate and home in collapse mode, but, of course, score publication preparation for page 7 of Triple Fugato of Vengeance Part II from Mice and Men, Act V, Scene 1.
