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ewtClass went really well.
I like learning this stuff. It tickles my brain! It stretches! I might go get that Schoenberg book out of the library to read over my trip to Canadia. Does that make me a hopeless swot? I don't care, you know.
I learned about diminished (octatonic) scales, and quartive harmonies, and stuff like that, and got more certain about how to refer to the degrees of the chord; they're interval-based, not sequence-of-scale based (this is not actually important if you aren't in a scale with a non-standard number of notes, but I was), but using a higher number implies a chain of 3rd below it, which is why a sus-4 is different than a chord with an extension tone that's an 11th. Also learned about Lydian Dominant mode, which I hadn't encountered before; it's got the raised 4th note of Lydian, and the lowered 7th note of Mixolydian, and one of the reasons this is cool is because the harmonic series has those (before it has, say, the ordinary raised 7th or P4th from tonic).
I got a question answered about the F9#11 chord that I wasn't quite sure how to harmonize in 4-way close, as well as a typo corrected. I need to go through my draft of that assignment, chord by chord, and make sure that I've actually got the right notes in the right spots.
I'm feeling a little less happy about the improvisation class, which I find rather on the ill-defined side, and don't enjoy as much as I hoped I would. I'm considering whether it's worth trying to switch to conducting. I think the only sane way to do this would be to do some of the work the conducting class has already done while I'm away over Christmas; I'll at least talk to Student Services and find out what's involved. In the meantime I'll stick with the improv class for now and see whether things settle a bit.
And then I got a phonecall from my dad, lovely to chat with him, and then people arrived to help me with some packing. By that time I was starving and didn't do as much packing as I'd hoped but went to ASDA (ugh) for foods and free boxes, came back, ate foods, and eventually settled down to some packing in the living room. Result? 5 blue bags emptied, 3 boxes packed and labelled, 1 full-to-overflowing "to get rid of" box, 1 moderately full binbag. I think the next step is getting rid of the things in the "to get rid of" box (some are for eBay, some are for donation), then repeating the process with remaining bags. Then I get to start bagging the things in other parts of the house too.
And now it's late, I'm tired, and I'm off to bed.
I like learning this stuff. It tickles my brain! It stretches! I might go get that Schoenberg book out of the library to read over my trip to Canadia. Does that make me a hopeless swot? I don't care, you know.
I learned about diminished (octatonic) scales, and quartive harmonies, and stuff like that, and got more certain about how to refer to the degrees of the chord; they're interval-based, not sequence-of-scale based (this is not actually important if you aren't in a scale with a non-standard number of notes, but I was), but using a higher number implies a chain of 3rd below it, which is why a sus-4 is different than a chord with an extension tone that's an 11th. Also learned about Lydian Dominant mode, which I hadn't encountered before; it's got the raised 4th note of Lydian, and the lowered 7th note of Mixolydian, and one of the reasons this is cool is because the harmonic series has those (before it has, say, the ordinary raised 7th or P4th from tonic).
I got a question answered about the F9#11 chord that I wasn't quite sure how to harmonize in 4-way close, as well as a typo corrected. I need to go through my draft of that assignment, chord by chord, and make sure that I've actually got the right notes in the right spots.
I'm feeling a little less happy about the improvisation class, which I find rather on the ill-defined side, and don't enjoy as much as I hoped I would. I'm considering whether it's worth trying to switch to conducting. I think the only sane way to do this would be to do some of the work the conducting class has already done while I'm away over Christmas; I'll at least talk to Student Services and find out what's involved. In the meantime I'll stick with the improv class for now and see whether things settle a bit.
And then I got a phonecall from my dad, lovely to chat with him, and then people arrived to help me with some packing. By that time I was starving and didn't do as much packing as I'd hoped but went to ASDA (ugh) for foods and free boxes, came back, ate foods, and eventually settled down to some packing in the living room. Result? 5 blue bags emptied, 3 boxes packed and labelled, 1 full-to-overflowing "to get rid of" box, 1 moderately full binbag. I think the next step is getting rid of the things in the "to get rid of" box (some are for eBay, some are for donation), then repeating the process with remaining bags. Then I get to start bagging the things in other parts of the house too.
And now it's late, I'm tired, and I'm off to bed.
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Date: 2007-11-03 03:42 am (UTC)Yay for packing a bit too!
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Date: 2007-11-03 08:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-03 09:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-03 09:24 pm (UTC)The question is, did the composer intend it to be F9#11, or is that a convenient chord that somebody's worked out from the arrangement, and it's actually a standard F major chord with a couple of suspensions on top?