I had trouble getting to sleep last night, and so naturally I did not wake up early this morning. I hope that, as a result, I'll be tired enough to fall asleep quickly tonight and thereby get up early and get a walk in tomorrow morning.
I taught 8 units of Berlitz lessons today: 9:00-10:30, 12:00-1:30, 3:30-5:00, and 6:00-7:30. Two of these were classes of students who work for the WHO (World Health Organization). In the first class were a woman in Libya, a woman in Serbia, and a woman in Congo who is originally from Naples, Italy. In the second class were a woman from Italy who works in Geneva, Switzerland, and a woman from Belarus who works in Bonn, Germany.
We were planning to go out to lunch today, but when we got out to the car we discovered that the left front tire was completely flat! I didn't have time to do anything about it today, but I've now got my work cut out for me for tomorrow morning. At any rate, we ate beans and weenies and coleslaw at home for lunch today.
I got my ChucK program for classical-style harmonization successfully working today! I give it the melody, the chords, the bass notes (which must be the roots of the chords in this version), the scale notes of the key, and the lengths of the notes, and the program correctly fills in the inner parts (alto and tenor), following the rules of classical harmony. When it has calculated all the notes, it prints them out and also plays the piece, using the Mandolin that is built into the language. Next task: to extend to work with chords that are NOT in root position.
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