Dr. Kit Music

I’ve been slogging away at chapter 4. There are inadequate and incomplete diagrams, but I’m sending the prose off for editing this morning. Hopefully that will give me a better idea of what diagrams I need. Chapter 4 stands at 23 pages and 5150 words at the moment, but I think I’m going to cut…

oof. I have been very lacking in the motivation for writing department this week. Since I’m cutting some bits of chapter four, I decided to completely redo my outline and chapter structure. There are several analyses that I’m not too happy with and want to minimize or possibly cut, so hopefully this new organization will…

I had a good meeting with my advisor this week, the upshot of which is that I’m considering cutting 2 or 3 sections from chapter 4 before I’ve even written them. This means that I can definitely finish the chapter by the end of the month. Here’s one of the bits I wrote this week,…

Back to the word mines! Except I finally caught the crud this week, and missed a whole day of work. oh well. I got organized today, and I think I can make my goal of having the prose of my dissertation mostly written before spring break. Today I took notes on Richard Cohn’s Audacious Euphony, which…

I had fun working on analyses and drawing on paper this week. Topic included how chromaticism effects interpretation and effect of function in Bruckner, novel chords as dominants in Duke Ellington (even tho structural, functional harmony is still present), and multiple dominants in “popular” music. Since our quarter is wrapping up here. I might post next…

I meant to finish up my reading list this week, but didn’t have all the books I needed. So instead, I started on analyses for chapter 4. I’m pretty excited. I’ve got a couple small example of how to use Functional Analysis to prep for Schenker graphs, and I’m hoping to do a full Schenkerian…

I finished up some lingering edits in chapter 3 and did some more finessing on chapter 2, thanks to edits from advisors. As it stands, I now have 12k some words and 50 pages in chapter 2, for total current document length of 123 pages and 28k words. One more chapter next quarter, and then…

Whew. This week I cleaned up all the citations – I’ve only got one left that I returned the book too soon. All the others I had the book, good notes, or could find the proper page on google books. I also started planning out which pieces I’d like to highlight in chapter 4 – the…

Today I cleaned up the second half of chapter 2, going thru edits that I received several weeks ago. I hope to have more edits of the first half of chapter 2 to work on next week. Right now, Chapter 2 is 46 pages. I probably should do some reading this afternoon, but I might…

whew. Sent rough draft of first half of chapter 2 to two different editors this morning. After merging the two halves of chapter 2, I have 43 pages and 12,206 words. There’s definitely some bits I need to flesh out, but there’s also several bits that I think will just get axed, so that’s probably…