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This week was not conducive to good writing. I haven’t been sleeping well, and I had lots of extra errands to run that took up some of my time. However, I managed to get a kinda-terrible chunk (10 pages!) organized on Riemann, his predecessors, and successors. Much of it was from a previous paper for…

This week was a light week, for which I am quite grateful: adjusting to a school schedule is leaving me constantly exhausted. I wrote a couple pages on Stufentheorie on Tuesday and did some reading this morning. I also started collecting my thoughts on the later 19th century and Riemann, because I have a feeling…

This week, my goal was to write 4-5 pages on some historical functional thinkers: Rameau as well as the thoroughbass school. I was worried initially that I had written far too much, but after some editing, I’m down to about 5.5 pages between the two topics. It’s not wonderful, but it has complete sentences, and…

As promised, more words! I did some touch up edits of chapter 3 on Tuesday, all that remains is some layout/citation/post-processing sort of stuff, hopefully. Chapter 3 and the second half of chapter 2 are going to my advisor today. I spent some of Tuesday and some of today working on the second half of…

This isn’t a full update, but is just to say that school has started again and I will have a better update on Thursday!

Summer! I did indeed catch up with my readings this week. I started a document for Chapter 2, it has an outline and a plan for next fall. I did some edits on Chapter 2.5 this morning, there’s still quite a bit of work to be done, but I purposely left myself some questions in…

I have made some head way on readings this week, but I’m still waiting to hear back about edits. I’ve got a manageable list of things to read next week, and I’m hoping to be caught up on my readings by next Friday so I can take the summer off. This weeks readings were on…

I have made zero progress this week, and that’s ok. I will get back to my readings in earnest next week, and edit chapter 2.5.

Edits! I merged my two sections of chapter 3 for a total of 49 page, approx. 12800 words, and 22 additional pages of appendices. I feel a lot better about this chapter, but I definitely need outside eyes on it for grammar, detail, a little flow, and concepts that may be readily apparent to me…

Reading is going. I feel a little behind, but I’ve gotten good sources for almost everything. There’s always more to read, so I’m trying to do targeted efforts instead of just getting swallowed by sources. In terms of commentary on what I’ve read, I got some interesting notes about Functional and Roman numeral predecessors in…