#comp exam

[mdramblings]

"What if I fall?" 

Oh but my darling, What if you fly?

[thedivineghoul]

It's over

...I finished. But is there anything left of my soul?

[thedivineghoul]

I've eaten lunch... But I regret it.

[turntabledoc]

Jesus, be a passing grade and on my committee board.

[yeah-sure-amanda]

Having a Freak Out for No Reason...

I'm having a freak out. I don't know why either. I just thought about the grades coming in for the first half of my comp exam and I feel like something went wrong. I just need to pass and I can handle the rest. I just want this feeling to go away. It is scaring me. 

[sarahjaneburt-blog]

:)

I am justifying some of my summer reading picks by pretending that I can use 'The Hunger Games' and the Sookie Stackhouse series on the comprehensive exam.

[repclassblog-blog]

My list compiled for the comp exam: Influences on music (who are not composers themselves), and how they are influencial...

Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) - inspired Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony No. 3. He was originally going to dedicated it to Napoleon, however, Beethoven did not like his ways of imperialism, so he dedicated it to someone else.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - wrote “Faust” and inspired a great deal of literature, music and illustration.

Paul Verlaine - A French poet who inspired composers like Debussy and Faure who set many of his poems to music.

Anton Stradivari - Around 1960-onward, Stradivari's violins are regarded as amongst the finest stringed- instruments ever created, are VERY expensive, and are played by the best professionals today. There are several violinmakers who try to copy the craftsmanship and sound today.

Johann Maelzel - he invented the metronome in 1816.

Joseph Stalin - Early 20th century, he influenced music in commissioning Dmitri Shostakovich for his compositions. He was forced under the Stalinist regime to compose music that was only pleasing to him, even though Shostakovich did “hidden” works that are noted today.

Adolph Saxe - invented the saxophone in 1841

Prince Paul Anton Esterhazy – employed Haydn at their house to write/perform music for their court.

Pope Gregory I - “Gregorian chant” is named after him because he was the patron Saint of musicians, singers, etc…and his writings were later chanted.

Sergei Diaghilev - director of the Ballet Russes (Russian Ballet), worked closely with composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographed and commissioned him to write ballets like “The Rite of Spring” and “Pulcinella.”

Martha Graham - Dance choreographer who worked in conjunction with Aaron Copeland and did the dance choreography for his ballet “Appalachian Spring” in 1948.

Thomas De Quincey: English writer who had a horrible opium and alcohol problem. Berlioz based his “Symphonie Fantastique” on his “Confessions of an English Opium Eater” book based on theme of the internal struggle with one's self.