Today's Thought
31st October 2004
Tonight is Halloween. Now still working in Music Dept. Nov 1st is the beginning of my hell journey before I return HK. Still have 19 days, i will know the result of my MPhil progress. Before that I need to finish the thesis by organizing all the analyses I did and need to add some more to have a good connection/logical presentation.
I proposed to CWL that I can hand in next Mon (Nov 8) then she may have a week to read and i may have a few days to revise before email back before Nov 19. Nov 19 is also another hell day: I have a Schenker presentation in my tough History of Music Theory Class, i also need to hand in my diary on three 19th Century theorists.
Can i pass through all these? I doubt....but what I can do?
Hard Eat and see Die Hard or not
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29th October 2004
Today all exam are scheduled:
Dec 10 (Fri):
Film music paper presentation
Dec 14 (Tue):
10:30--10:55 Oral Exam (History of Music Theory II)
12:00 Film music paper due
15:30 --18:30 Schenker Studies Exam
Dec 15 (Wed)
Leave Buffalo and return to Hong Kong
Dec 16 (Thur)
night arrive Hong Kong
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23rd October 2004
10 terms out of 15.
2 essays out of 4.
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22nd October 2004
I feel much better for today's History of Music Theory II class, today's topic is Hauptmann's Harmonic theory (Hegelian dualism)....at least i can have sth to say. Also has a presentation, one classmate really doesn't like presenting because Prof guides us and go through all the reading materials, and he only prepared one or two points to add....compared with last time I did, i had to hold and present a totally different topic, which really killed me and thus i did extremely badly as i really didn't know what i talked......
Well...this is my path.....
I have a take home mid-term exam now....due on Mon by 4pm thru email is fine [He is a Prof in Eastman, Professor Robert Wason]
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21st October 2004
My new score, J. S. Bach's 6 Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo (with autograph facsimile) arrived. You know, in HK it is out of stock for a long time...
Today attended to a lecture, David Neumeyer presents "Film Music, Music Studies, Film Studies" using Rebecca as an illustration for his theory.
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18th October 2004
Very happy today, my books arrived:
Adorno: Essays on Music $39.95 (Hardcover)
Solomon: Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination $24.95 (Hardcover)
Knighton: Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music $15.95 (Paperback)
Baranovitch: China's New Voices: Popular Music, Ethnicity, Gender and Politics $17.95 (Hardcover)
Kramer: Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History $12.95 (Paperback with a CD)
Taruskin: Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions $69.95 (Hardcover in 2 volumes, ORIGINAL is $190)
Walsh: Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russian and France, 1882-1934 $12.95 (Paperback, very thick!)
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From UC-Press: The Mammoth Book Sale
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