Table of Contents

Preface

1. Scientific Theories and Laws

2. The First Decade (1936-1946)

3. Relativity

4. The Second Decade (1946-1956)

5. Quantum Mechanics

6. The Third Decade (1956-1966)

7. The Big Bang

8. The Fourth Decade (1966-1976)

9. The Non-Bang

10. The Fifth Decade (1976-1986)

11. The Never-Bang

12. The Sixth Decade (1986-1996)

13. Evolution

14. The Seventh Decade (1996-2006)

15. The Theory of More than Everything

16. The Eighth Decade (2006-2016)

17. Now What?

18. The Ninth Decade (2016-2026)

Appendix A Paintings

Appendix B TTOMTE and a Steady State Universe

Appendix C Musical Compositions

Bibliography

Appendix C-Page 418

SONATA ---- A Sonata, meaning sound piece, can have three or four movements (or speeds). Beethoven composed thirty-eight piano sonatas; I managed to write one. This particular composition suggests the four elements as indicated in the subtitles.

08 Mvt 1 Earth

09 Mvt 2 Air

10 Mvt 3 Water

11 Mvt 4 Fire

MONOCHROMATICS ---- At first, keyboard instruments were tuned so that certain intervals (like C to G) vibrated without iritating beat frequencies. (See chapter 3, page 30.) However, this meant an instrument sounded good in only one key. Some genius about the time of Bach, found that by accepting a slight beat frequency and tuning all notes so they were equidistant (tempered tuning), a single instrument could play in all keys. Bach wrote forty-eight preludes and fugues in all different keys to demonstrate this great idea. Together, the pieces were called "The Well-tempered Clavichord." A prelude is simply a piece that leads into another. A fugue is a chase, as in the word fugitive . A melody begins; and before it is completely finished, the same melody starts again in a different voice, something like "Row, row your boat."

Monochromatics is a set of preludes and fugues that doesn't care about keys. Instead, each piece is based on an interval. For example, the first prelude and fugue are both based on the minor 2nd, the shortest distance between two notes. Because of this, the prelude and fugue have somewhat the same "color" hence the name Monochromatics. Some of the preludes suggest the subtitle indicated below.

12 Prelude I (minor 2nd) Mime

13 Fugue I (minor 2nd)

14 Prelude II (major 2nd) Guilt

15 Continued next page

Appendix C-Page 418

Compositions

PIANO EXCURSIONS

01 - 06 Carol Variations

07 - 07 Solo

08 - 11 Sonata

12 - 33 Monochromatics

VOCAL EXCURSIONS

34 - 38 Mass

39 - 44 Christmas

45 - 45 Solo

ORCHESTRAL EXCURSIONS

46 - 49 Symphony No.3

50 - 50 Variations on the Human Spirit

SOLO EXCURSIONS

51 - 53 Piano Concerto No. 1

54 - 58 Piano Concerto No. 2

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