Snowy Monday

The commute home today took an hour and a half. This was after I cleared three inches of snow off the car after only four hours of class. This was pretty frustrating as last Wednesday classes were canceled due to snow that never fell and I guess today I had to pay for it.

Because of the Monday holiday yesterday, today was a Monday schedule meaning that I had Recording Studio Ensemble. We were supposed to track (record) the Bolling flute piece today but because there was a conflict with the drummer, who's not in our class, we delayed the recording until next week. So it was more rehearsals today. My job is page turner/extra set of ears. Not terribly important but I did notice something's today that will hopefully help in the performance next week.

I didn't update last week because of the snow day and no class, but I thought I'd fill you in on my Tuesday night class. It's my music theory class and currently we're discussing how to analyze pieces. It's a very thorough exercise. The musical aspects we look at are called SHMeRG (Sound, Harmony, Melody, Rhythm, and Growth), we also look at these characteristics on three dimensions: small, mid, and large. So while a large harmony dimension might be a song's key, the individual chord changes would be considered a small dimension of harmony. In order to put this idea into practice, our homework is to analyze Pachelbel's arrangement of "Jesu, meine Freude" and Handel's "Largo" from Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 2 in F major.

No word on whether we'll have class tomorrow or not due to snow, but I'm guessing we will.

Today's T: Beck Mutations on blue