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Well my Hatrack music theory friends: LW, Human, Megan, Rivka (right?), etc. The time has come. I am analyzing Schoenberg, Klavierstuck, Op. 33a.
We were helped with the first three pitch class sets, A, B, and C, (which I didn't need!). The pitch classes are (0127), (0359), andd (0146). And God is this tough. I am supposed to locate the pitch classes spread throughout the texture of the peice, as well as locate the three hidden triads/7ths in the piece. I've found 1 tried, and thre interations of the pitch classes, and I am through 6 measures out of 18. This is hard hard hard.
Am I going about it wrong? I have been sitting at my piano playing and rearanging the pitch clusters until I work out in my head what the pitch class is, then seeing if it matches with one of the originals. I have gotten a few this way, but SLOW GOING! Well, its due to in the morning, so I don't expect any help, just griping about advanced theory.
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Turned it in today, but it looks like the prof is one of those look only graders, so my feeble attempts at analysis may go unremarked after all. Thank goodness for small favors no?
I might have been thinking of turning this thread to a discussion of grad school if I had any takers... It's a wierd time right now, because all of my very good friends have begun to make post college plans, and I don't want to leave! I'm more ready than I WAS a year ago, but will I be ready in a year? I will have to stay a few extra quarters to rap up my English stuff, IF I don't get accepted into my abroad programs in England. :cross fingers:
Still, when all this comes to pass and I do graduate in 18 months or so, what on Earth will I do with myself? I have studies SO much and worked so hard, I don't know where I will focus my efforts. There is grad school in musicology, but I don't know that that is right for me. On the other hand, there is grad school in English, and I have recieved a couple of very enthusiastic encouragements from profs to persue that route. I don't know! Arg!
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