Today's Thought
16th to 30th September 2005
Half month no update!
Too busy...even no gap for a breath! Every week just finished all the things extremely on time, no time for studying comp-exam, no time for thinking and reading about my conference proposal and Schoenberg term paper. Many things sudden happened which make me even have less time for my own.
What I can do is only work as quick as I can and then save some times for my own reading and thoughts!
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Mid-Autumn Moon @ Buffalo:
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Here are what I bought recently from Amazon:
The Atonal Music of Anton Webern
Music Theory Resource Book
Philosophy of Modern Music
Schoenberg and the New Music : Essays by Carl Dahlhaus
On Bullshit
The Cambridge Companion to Berg
The Mahler Symphonies: An Owner's Manual
Epson Stylus C88 Inkjet Printer
The Structure of Atonal Music
Sonata Forms
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
The Romantic Generation
Pollini's recording of Schoenberg and Webern Piano pieces
The Stravinsky Legacy
Meter As Rhythm
Fantasy Pieces: Metrical Dissonance in the Music of Robert Schumann
The Rite of Spring in Full Score
Hearing in Time: Psychological Aspects of Musical Meter
Music of My Future: The Schoenberg Quartets and Trio
The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music (The Cambridge History of Music)
Charles Ives: A Life With Music
The Music of Charles Ives
Baseball and the Music of Charles Ives: A Proving Ground : A Proving Ground
Mozart Violin Sonatas Vol. 2
Schubert's Viola/Cello Sonata X 2
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12th to 15th September 2005
A very hard week...I think i can start to read some books for comp exam, but a series of events happened continuously, I just sleep around 2:30am/3:00am then have to get up around 7-7:30am...
||: Reading -- Teaching -- Own violin lesson -- Seminar -- Audit lesson :||
Finally almost done today...tmr (Fri) only need to audit a Year 2 theory class as TA...
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Tmr, Toronto visit...meeting HK relatives in such situation really not much fun. In HK, we don't have chance to meet, but ridiculously ,we can meet in Toronto for some reasons......
Mom's ad hoc style of changing mind really plays my sister and me to die....doesn't she think changing air ticket just like taking any MTR she wants to take?
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11th September 2005
A sudden news from HK-Canada. Hope everything is going fine....
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Listening to Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps [Deutsche Grammophon]...so touched....
that feeling comes since listening to Mahler's and Brahms's music....
May be the end of my (study) time is coming soon [ this is a very real fact! ]
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10th September 2005
A working/reading day.
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9th September 2005
Almost a day-off!
A copy day for preparing readings in this and next week!
I hope my new orders in Amazon come soon...very expensive this time but worthy...
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8th September 2005
Busy day!
9-11am 2 Aural Class
11:30 to 12noon Rhythmic Studies in 20th Century Music [1st meeting with advisor, planning what I should read and so this semester]
LUNCH
1:00 to 3:00pm Piano Tutorial for my theory students
3:30pm to 4:50pm Syntax --- I got 47/50 in my 1st assignment! [while i saw some major got 42 and some got 35!]
Tired, hungry ---> back home for dinner and grading theory assignment.
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7th September 2005
A new coach, other than my current violin teacher, gives me lesson. He is quite surprised of my ability of playing 3 octaves scale @___@ --- have to buy 1 or 2 scale books
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Listening to a concert at night....very tired...we have a teacher here is an artist for NAXOS [Berio's Sequenza III]
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6th September 2005
"Art in its most primitive state is a simple imitation of nature. But it quickly becomes imitations of nature in the wider sense of this idea, that is, not merely imitation of outer but also of inner nature."
Schoenberg, Theory of Harmony, 18.
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French language exam failed @___@
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5th September 2005
Labor Day (Holiday in US)
Reading Schoenberg's biography while listening to:
1) Karajan: Adagio (Summer)
2) Tan Dun: Ghost Opera, Marco Polo (Libretto by Paul Griffths [who is also a Messiaen Scholar!!!]) (I hear a long quotation from Mahler's Das Lied)
Actually, Schoenberg is also very poor, especially in his career as a composer in Vienna and Berlin. However, when he goes to US and seems getting more reputation and his music is being noticed, he passed way........
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Sept 2 (taken by wwy)
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4th September 2005
Sunday -- Church Service! but I can't attend the 9:30am rehearsal and bible study (10am), I arrive 10 min before the service!
Lunch [ recently we eat a lot of corns @____@ , really ¹¶ë(µ¯)¦Ì]
Working @ Music Library --- the CD collection is really not enough and outdated @__@
Ai....finally bought Chips-Ahoy....how can you resist the price? USD4 for 2 pack [15oz to 16oz each]
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3rd September 2005
Packing things at home until 1pm
Shopping at 1) Target and 2) Martin's [ but it is not mine!]
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2nd September 2005
Friday! It is my copy time in the morning ^_^
11am theory lecture, also it is for undergraduates, i still can learn many things there!
Lunch -- Oh, i forgot to bring the Rice-box out...no dinner here tonight [hehe....eating out &__&]
Aftertenoon, violin practice @ my office
4-5pm Violin lesson:
I will play Mozart's Violin Sonata in B-flat K. 378 and Bach's Sonata No. 2 in A minor Andante and Allegro, as well as Kreutzer and scale stuff!
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Organ recital at night --- very sleepy @__@
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1st September 2005
2 Aural class from 9-11am...pretty good and smooth
Syntax again from 3:30pm to 4:50pm [Have assignment la....but this is quite funny, just decompose and re-categorize the morphemes] (actually, i am always thinking how this would related to music...and this make the linkage between two fields more interesting]
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