Approaching the End
So now that classes are over all we have to do is get through finals, and i cannot tell you after this past week how excited i am to have this week coming to a close. I've finally finished C & E which has been a year in the making now and all i have is the knowledge that I somehow managed to gain from random parts of lectures that I managed to pick up and a pencil celebrating my HUHC C & Eness....why thank you honors college.
Today was also the last day of my theory class with Cinnamon, which as with the C & E was also a welcomed end. On the other hand, unlike C & E it is a bittersweet ending. Dispite how annoying all those homework assignments were I learned a great deal in that class and although I am not dying to take another class with the head of any department anytime soon, he wasn't that bad. Plus towards the end he started getting entertaining, that or me and Kim just managed to make what he said entertaining. (Just a piece of advice if you ever have any trouble memorizing anything or want a good way to remember things for a class, start mocking them you'll remember them a lot better). So despite all the real and completely useful information I learned in my theory class here is the short summation of what me and Kim do to pass the time. For all of you in Cinnamon's class who don't understand all of these it is a shame, though I'm sure many you will remember.
Good Counterpoint can be:
~An oreo cookie and cream filling
~A flock of birds flying south
~Good counterpoint
~A really interesting alto(tenor) line (B,B,B,B,B,B,B,B,A,B,B,B,B)
~I V I V I V I V I Cadence, expansions of I PAC
~The hills of Sound of Music
~A pretty picture to distract bored students
~The inkblot test
~The product of not catching Old Spicitis
~Clouds-stratas of analysis
Bad Counterpoint(EPIC FAILRURE) can be:
~Two parallel octaves and a doubled leading tone
~Augmented 2nds, in the words of Kurtz "The Horror! The Horror!"
Other random tidbits:
~"I'm alone in the universe"
~Key signatures aren't rules really, they're more like guidelines
~"I love your penguins!"
~ACECEGEGBGBDBDFDFAFACACECEGEGBGBDBDFDFAFACACE....woot triads
~I think embelishing tones are like the Devil, they set up distractions and temptations for you to lose your focus from what you really should be looking at...the main melody
~"I'm afraid..."
~Bass and Soprano are the cookie to the oreo we call 4 part harmony! Choir is my double-stuffed oreo.
~"You know how you make comments to yourself in your head...weirdest thing, I just started talking to myself in spanish."
~Hippie peasant/ Hippie Habanera
~K & K Private eyes CASE CLOSED
Answer to the ultimate literary question:
~The Horror!-augmented seconds
~The Brutes-leading tones
~The Heads on Sticks-students who write double parallel octaves with doubled leading tones
~The Ivory-an A
~The Interior-theory class
~The Company-Dr. Cinnamon (a.k.a. Old Spice)
Today was also the last day of my theory class with Cinnamon, which as with the C & E was also a welcomed end. On the other hand, unlike C & E it is a bittersweet ending. Dispite how annoying all those homework assignments were I learned a great deal in that class and although I am not dying to take another class with the head of any department anytime soon, he wasn't that bad. Plus towards the end he started getting entertaining, that or me and Kim just managed to make what he said entertaining. (Just a piece of advice if you ever have any trouble memorizing anything or want a good way to remember things for a class, start mocking them you'll remember them a lot better). So despite all the real and completely useful information I learned in my theory class here is the short summation of what me and Kim do to pass the time. For all of you in Cinnamon's class who don't understand all of these it is a shame, though I'm sure many you will remember.
Good Counterpoint can be:
~An oreo cookie and cream filling
~A flock of birds flying south
~Good counterpoint
~A really interesting alto(tenor) line (B,B,B,B,B,B,B,B,A,B,B,B,B)
~I V I V I V I V I Cadence, expansions of I PAC
~The hills of Sound of Music
~A pretty picture to distract bored students
~The inkblot test
~The product of not catching Old Spicitis
~Clouds-stratas of analysis
Bad Counterpoint(EPIC FAILRURE) can be:
~Two parallel octaves and a doubled leading tone
~Augmented 2nds, in the words of Kurtz "The Horror! The Horror!"
Other random tidbits:
~"I'm alone in the universe"
~Key signatures aren't rules really, they're more like guidelines
~"I love your penguins!"
~ACECEGEGBGBDBDFDFAFACACECEGEGBGBDBDFDFAFACACE....woot triads
~I think embelishing tones are like the Devil, they set up distractions and temptations for you to lose your focus from what you really should be looking at...the main melody
~"I'm afraid..."
~Bass and Soprano are the cookie to the oreo we call 4 part harmony! Choir is my double-stuffed oreo.
~"You know how you make comments to yourself in your head...weirdest thing, I just started talking to myself in spanish."
~Hippie peasant/ Hippie Habanera
~K & K Private eyes CASE CLOSED
Answer to the ultimate literary question:
~The Horror!-augmented seconds
~The Brutes-leading tones
~The Heads on Sticks-students who write double parallel octaves with doubled leading tones
~The Ivory-an A
~The Interior-theory class
~The Company-Dr. Cinnamon (a.k.a. Old Spice)