piano and music and freakouts
It seems the 8th of December is going to be when my AMEB prac exam for piano is. My teacher told me this morning and I kind of freaked out. She seems to be under the impression that four weeks is adequate time for me to get all my songs/scales/whatnots up to scratch. PFFT. NO. I need more time. Ugh. It's not that I probably wouldn't pass as things stand at the moment, it's more that I want Honours. Well, more need Honours, in my deluded world where getting the highest grade is the only means of being worth anything. You see, I know that reasoning is faulty, but cannot make myself believe that anything less than Honours is okay. Yay...
Umm. What else.
Bob is at the coast. I have no one to talk to, not that he ever really talks to me. It is certainly a case of me talking and him nodding or whathaveyou (one big long word or should it be hyphenated? Hmm). It's really rather boring here. I'm actually considering writing out an essay about Scriabin for my exam next week, but I doubt it's a good idea because I'm rather tired. Also, the main gist of it would be: Scriabin was a crazy Russian. He honestly thought his music would bring about a Utopian society. He had some massive ego problems. His early piano music was influenced by Chopin. He created this mad chord that doesn't sound like anything in particular, it simply "exists". This chord (I think) is called the "Chord of Ecstasy". (Lol). He took Wagnerian chromaticism a step further in his symphonic writings.
Did you know that Anton Webern died from being accidentally shot when stepping outside his house to smoke a cigar because he didn't want to have his kids near second-hand smoke? I'm so glad uni is teaching me all these things that are so useful in real life. /sarcasm. Interesting, but not really...useful.
Umm. What else.
Bob is at the coast. I have no one to talk to, not that he ever really talks to me. It is certainly a case of me talking and him nodding or whathaveyou (one big long word or should it be hyphenated? Hmm). It's really rather boring here. I'm actually considering writing out an essay about Scriabin for my exam next week, but I doubt it's a good idea because I'm rather tired. Also, the main gist of it would be: Scriabin was a crazy Russian. He honestly thought his music would bring about a Utopian society. He had some massive ego problems. His early piano music was influenced by Chopin. He created this mad chord that doesn't sound like anything in particular, it simply "exists". This chord (I think) is called the "Chord of Ecstasy". (Lol). He took Wagnerian chromaticism a step further in his symphonic writings.
Did you know that Anton Webern died from being accidentally shot when stepping outside his house to smoke a cigar because he didn't want to have his kids near second-hand smoke? I'm so glad uni is teaching me all these things that are so useful in real life. /sarcasm. Interesting, but not really...useful.