Swotd 14: Quiet. Too quiet...

I spent the morning at work and then at the department. It was incredibly quiet around the music building, possibly because everyone's avoiding campus due to the commencement hubbub today and tomorrow. I found myself craving coffee and decided to come home to make it, so here I am happily writing away on the couch.

Note taking is mostly over, it's time to beef up my short review from Suzie's class into a more substantive "Review Essay" that I can actually do something with. Here's a sentence of the day:

Although Rings wears the methodological and orthographic influence of David Lewin on his sleeve, it becomes apparent in the course of reading Tonality and Transformation that the third word of the title could just as easily be intentionality. 

Non-Workspace of the Day

In celebration of turning my last paper in and finishing up the year, I'm taking some relaxation time. So, no workspace today, but rather Minecraft, which I haven't fired up since before the full version was released.

Swotd 10: in which my phone finally stops trying to turn the initialisminto the word "sword"

Seriously, iPhones learn in a sort of scary way. They're much smarter than Microsoft Word...

Rainy today, so I hung out at home. Luckily, I'm reaching the point in writing where I don't need too many books, I just need to put it all together...

SOTD: 

The spectacle of the pre-game show is both an expression of Ohio State’s traditions, and a perfectly calibrated and choreographed piece of theatre. As described throughout the foregoing analysis, the ritual is saturated with tension; not only does the pre-game show as a whole serve to build the crowd’s anticipation for the eventual entrance of the football team, but with each successive section, it “telegraphs” its own next move, tantalizing fans with what will come next, while forcing them to wait for it.

SWOTD 6: Frantic Finishing

Today I'm in that rushed phase when a paper is almost done, but when tiny little flaws and unfinished bits seem to proliferate like magic brooms in the Mickey Mouse part of Fantasia - deal with one and two more show up. I'm working at our kitchen table this morning, looking out over our scenic street, because I've got to grind the end of this term paper out before I go to department obligations starting at 1.

SOTD = the last sentence of the paper, which is perhaps unsurprisingly written already:

The connection between neumes and transformational actions has been sufficiently belabored already, but it is possible that deeper investigation will help to clarify some aspects of Lewin’s enigmatic descriptions of an anti-Cartesian music theory, and will contribute to the continuing exploration and exposition of his richly textured ideas.