from the piano / a thought
getting the thought out of the way first: my breakfast today was one goreng pisang (the fried banana thingy coated with batter) and one you tiao. this distasteful thought just crossed my mind before i could stop it - goreng pisang looks awfully phallic. i'll never ask my mom to buy it again.
lol ok so that's that done. playlist:
Debussy - Preludes, book 1, no. 7-12
Franck - Prelude, Chorale and Fugue
Granados - El Pelele, escena goyesca (the Straw Man, scene from Goya)
hrmm debussy. i sightread the 7th prelude, the rest i'd done before. i have a slight debussy phobia, because of the preludes. i did nos. 9 & 11 before, for my ATCL, and frankly my technique was ghastly at the time. i remember note-clusters being rolled over the keys because i couldn't be bothered to pract enough to hit all 3 notes at the same time... embarrassing stuff like that. but after handling Gershwin (Piano Concerto, esp. the 3rd mvmt) i thought the debussy was worth a second shot. been at it a few times and it's noticably better. besides i like the suite bergamasque (you can get a recording from the wikipedia link) especially the passepied... so i've been thinking of looking at more debussy.
franck i've blogged on before... Granados. i only discovered granados, i think last year, except for the danzas espanolas (spanish dances) which are fantastic minatures and which i've played before. granados' music is like musical paintings - which is why the goyescas (scenes from Goya - the spanish artist) are doubly apt. i've only played 2 from the actual goyescas suite, and el pelele, which is brilliant and less demanding. lovely piece, lively and stuff, restored my humorous mood after the depressing franck. (humorous because of the goreng pisang thought that started my day)
other stuff: i tried the HCI pure maths prelim paper yesterday... it's not exactly quite as hard as it's made out to be, i came out ok in it (an A, if i marked correctly - not a shaggy A, just a bare A). what really pissed me off was that after i finished the paper and checked my answers with the answer key, it was missing qn 6 and 12. i felt my sense of achievement from 3 hours of mind-numbing work just fizzle out... fucking pissed. so i marked them right anyway (i think they are, so there).
self-delusion ftw.
lol ok so that's that done. playlist:
Debussy - Preludes, book 1, no. 7-12
Franck - Prelude, Chorale and Fugue
Granados - El Pelele, escena goyesca (the Straw Man, scene from Goya)
hrmm debussy. i sightread the 7th prelude, the rest i'd done before. i have a slight debussy phobia, because of the preludes. i did nos. 9 & 11 before, for my ATCL, and frankly my technique was ghastly at the time. i remember note-clusters being rolled over the keys because i couldn't be bothered to pract enough to hit all 3 notes at the same time... embarrassing stuff like that. but after handling Gershwin (Piano Concerto, esp. the 3rd mvmt) i thought the debussy was worth a second shot. been at it a few times and it's noticably better. besides i like the suite bergamasque (you can get a recording from the wikipedia link) especially the passepied... so i've been thinking of looking at more debussy.
franck i've blogged on before... Granados. i only discovered granados, i think last year, except for the danzas espanolas (spanish dances) which are fantastic minatures and which i've played before. granados' music is like musical paintings - which is why the goyescas (scenes from Goya - the spanish artist) are doubly apt. i've only played 2 from the actual goyescas suite, and el pelele, which is brilliant and less demanding. lovely piece, lively and stuff, restored my humorous mood after the depressing franck. (humorous because of the goreng pisang thought that started my day)
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other stuff: i tried the HCI pure maths prelim paper yesterday... it's not exactly quite as hard as it's made out to be, i came out ok in it (an A, if i marked correctly - not a shaggy A, just a bare A). what really pissed me off was that after i finished the paper and checked my answers with the answer key, it was missing qn 6 and 12. i felt my sense of achievement from 3 hours of mind-numbing work just fizzle out... fucking pissed. so i marked them right anyway (i think they are, so there).
self-delusion ftw.
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