Dr. Kit Music

whew! Last week after I went signature hunting, I got the paperwork turned in and approved for my Public Lecture. This week I had a productive meeting with a committee member, tightened up the reorganization of Chapters 3 and 4,  chased down three new sources, and requested two more via ILL, so that I can…

Wheee! Welcome to the home stretch. We set a solid deadline of finish writing by May third, and I scheduled my defense for May 26th. My public lecture is May 24th at 4pm, and my afternoon chore is finishing signature hunting so that I can get that finalized. I started this week out a lot…

This week was not a good week for stress and anxiety. I’ve ended up completely restructuring chapter 3 and 4, moving words around, but not much in terms of new words progress. I’ll be off next week for spring break, hopefully I’ll have good news on progress at the start of April.

This week, I compiled 41k words in 163 pages to send to my continuity editor. However, this morning I got back more edits on chapter 4 (which I was totally expecting) and it seems like I have more work to do than I hoped. I feel better about chapter 1 tho, even if I haven’t…

This week I had a productive meeting with my advisor, started chapter 1, and did a bunch of edits on chapter 4. Chapter 4 still has a ways to go, but I sent it off to a different editor (who’s articles I’m using for half my sources) so hopefully that will help me get going…

Sending Chapter 4 for further edits now! I got all my examples cleaned up this week, and this morning I fixed all my citations. Hopefully the few strategic paragraphs I added will make the whole chapter read better. The interspersed quality of my edits this week means I don’t have anything new to add for…

Oof. What I thought last week was run of the mill, get over it in a day, head-cold turned out to be a week long exhausting fever virus running thru the music school right now. That really screwed up my schedule for teaching and writing, but I don’t think I’m behind schedule yet! I did manage…

Did more work on diagrams this week. Also had a productive meeting with my advisor – there’s still a lot of work to be done on chapter 4, but I’m fighting a crud today, so I’m taking a break.

After turning in chapter 4 last week, this week I went back and added a couple paragraphs about Schenker to Chapter 3. I also started on making nice diagrams for chapter 4, so that next week will go a bit easier. Here’s the Mozart/Schenker, and it’s context: ~~~~~ 3.1.5 Levels of Analysis Visually, Functional Analysis…