It seems only fitting to begin in the land of beginning-ish. While working on my Masters degree, I had this really fantastic idea: “Why not take a survey course on Medieval/Renaissance Music?!” It seemed like a hilariously terrible idea at the time… which is why I went with it. Continue reading *ockeghem* bless you!
Beethoven Themes: Symphonies 1 – 6
I SEVERELY need to revisit this, and complete it with 7-9, sooner rather than later.
Beethoven and I seem like mere acquaintances… I feel fairly comfortable identifying his symphonies, but he wrote so much more and it’s kind of inexcusable for me to be borderline completely oblivious to the remainder of his output– string quartets I’m looking at you! I think I might make the first step and start a bit of a flirtmance with him over winter break.
I’ve got my eye on you Beethoven, sir… *wink wink*
I’ve been working on a couple of projects this semester, both are super clarinetty. Before I start diving into too many directions, I figure I should go through old papers and salvage what I can from what I’ve come to accept as “truth.”
Since I’ve gone through a few hard drives and reformatting mishaps over the course of the past 10 or so years, this might be an interesting task! But, with any luck I’ll find a few things and can use them to get the ball rolling on this.
doctoring music 