#uni 2015

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Bus ticket home? Ten dollars.

Walk from the bus stop? Forty Minutes.

Two glasses of wine upon arrival? Priceless.

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writing an essay like

me: at last I figured out how to word that sentence

me: I think that warrants a break

me: I worked so hard

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Berlioz emphasizes the beauty of these triplet series by sending them into the uppermost octave of the harp, which he says possesses a “lovely crystalline tone of voluptuous freshness [and able to] whisper delicate secrets with lovely melodies”. [1] Perhaps the two harps whisper to each other about the protagonist’s secret love, and so reveal to the audience his innermost thoughts as he enters the ball.

[1] Berlioz, Hector, and Richard Strauss. Treatise on Instrumentation. Translated by Theodore Front. New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1991. Pg 141

 I don’t know if I’m pathetic or brilliant.

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nope. nvm. I am done for the night. Tune in tomorrow for more exciting installments of my history essay.

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·         Prologue/part 1

o   Replaces keyboard – also guitarlike? Wtf cares tho

o   Interjects, as in symphonie fantastique

o   Accompanies soloists

§  Lyrics having to do with lurve and heavenly bliss etc

§  Disappears at the mention of death

§  Ffforshadows Queen Mab, and there is ur fuckin segue

o   Some chomaticism – where find it

·         Part 2

o   2 harp parts – significant?

o   Harps represent party off somewhere nearby or some shit

§  Anything with horns?

§  Haha

§  Contrapuntal effect of combining to themese infinfal return of the them but leys be real, you aren’t going to write about that ti’s too much work

§  “chords, arpeggios, of extreme splendour” WHO SAID THAT?

·         Part 3

o   Also two harp aprts

o   Queen Mab, HERE SHE IS

§  Small fine and nimble

§  Fairies and shit, so RANGE

§  Noiseless harmonies, wtf who says that it’s beautiful

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OK, and all of this can probably be related to Romeo et Juliette

And then we segue into stuff about the less raucous parts of Romeo and Juliette – like queen mab, and also the heavenly stuff, and that leads us into Harold and Damnation.

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·         Use of range – Identify

·         Double action in bar 333? NOPE

·         Use as decorative interjection, as in Romeo et Juliette

o   Brings music back?

·         Combined with solo horns to evoke a Parisian salon – where?

·         Coda – Brown has something to say about this

o   Where even is it

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