Spent more time with Webern's Symphonie op. 21 and Piano Variations op. 27. Both discussed in 20th-Century Counterpoint today.
Discussed C.P.E. Bach's Fantasia in C minor in Classical Seminar, as well as the Empfindsamerstil. I didn't read today's readings. Fortunately, we are a day behind, so there was no penalty. I feel very good about this class.
Paper Update: I shall begin a book on The Creation tomorrow.
German Update: I spent about two hours translating one page of Faust. It is not impossible. I'm feeling the grammar better.
Thesis Update: Spent some time researching some of Oliveros's earlier pieces. Turns out she has ties to Charles Amirkhanian; I have ties to him, and he might make a nice resource.
Reading Update: No LaRue, but some of the von Gunden.
I guess you could call today a "bad" day. I didn't get much done. It rained. I felt fatigued during class. My pen broke in my purse and I got ink all over my face. But considering the setbacks, I managed to stay productive until about 6 o'clock tonight.
I'm thinking I should separate things into hourly blocks:
1 hour LaRue/SHMRF
1 hour Oliveros study
1 hour German
2 + hours Creation Paper
Other homework shouldn't take more than 3 hours.
Then I can spend about 30 minutes reading a chapter of Dostoevsky, 15 minutes on my journal, and about 10 minutes on these entries... And that, my friends, is about 9 hours of work outside of class. That sounds both doable and impressive. Time management. Patience. Work. These are things I still have to master if I want to be a good musicologist.
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