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Composer Win #_________
Let’s Party Like It’s 2013 The title of this post is a tribute to the blog of my social media acquaintance and in some abstract way member-of-peer-group*, Jenn Jolley. She has taken rejection letters/e-mails – the very hard currency of … Continue reading
Spring Cleaning
Playing Catch Up Hello again, this will be brief. I passed my defense, and now I wait. I have updated the site, which basically entailed providing additional information in some places. But there are a couple of things to which … Continue reading
Acknowledging the Ending By Looking Back to the Beginning
It’s the End of My World As I Know It Apart from a few minor aesthetic things, like the design of a title page for the score, and another round of proofreading, …That the Children May Learn, including the analytical … Continue reading
Lies, Damned Lies, and…
Discursions There has sprung forth in the past week or so a renewed desire to examine the state of affairs for women composers. I haven’t had time to trace it to its original instigation, nor have I had a chance … Continue reading
Pheedback Needed Phor Phat Beatz
This is the postlude of the piece, and there is a lot of narration (which you cannot hear because the MIDI does not execute it). I may tinker with the very end a little bit, but this is about 98 … Continue reading
Finished Lines?
Beggaring of the End The piece was “finished” but flawed, so I’m in the process of trimming it down. I’ve cut 5’30″ so far, and will probably see if I can find another 2-3′ to extract. It’s difficult and painful, … Continue reading
Narrating a Meta-Narrative
Words ‘N Music Progress is being made on the dissertation. Slowly, surely. I’ve developed a much clearer sense of the overall form, as well as the structure of subsections within each larger portion of the work, and today I’ve begun … Continue reading
Church Tower in Bethune, France
I’ve been reading a ton of letters and diaries, and it is proving to be every bit as engaging, upsetting, and difficult as I had imagined. In Lionel Sotheby’s Great War, we catch a very interesting and different perspective. By … Continue reading
Nov. 2, 1920 (An Election) – Charles Ives and the Time Machine
This is My Reward for Score ID Study (Well, this and Hopefully Passing) Hello again, this time from the library. In the middle of comprehensive exams with two down and one to go. I think that I’m doing alright so … Continue reading
In Studying, Wisdom. Who Knew?
Bonds on Mahler Next week I’m taking my doctoral common comprehensive exams, and in studying, I’m reviewing as many readings as I can fit in. From the chapter “Ambivalent Elysium” in his excellent book about the post-Beethoven handling of the … Continue reading