Baroque Period (1600-1700) 17th Century

For the benefit of all... Understanding the style of Baroque Music. Need more in-depth understanding after reading this? Look up for me! Meanwhile.. enjoy learning and reading!

Texture
- Basically polyphonic, contrapuntal, or counterpoint

Harmony
- Chords and their inversions were established
- Basic cadence used (Perfect, Plagal, Imperfect, Interrupted)

Melody
- A melody (Theme) usually appears in sequence
- These reappearances could also be modified though the style remains the same
- Melodic lines can be quite chromatic at times
- Ornaments largely used

Tonality
- Diatonic key

Tempo
- Usually stays the same throughout

Dynamic
- Range in dynamic is narrow
- Terrace dynamic

Style
- Formal, imitative

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IHP Viva

consider it a job well done. today didn't start off very good, raining like crazy. but still manage to get my butt to school. had this crazy idea of putting on a blazer for presentation because of the cold weather. haha.. but didn't. i didn't even manage to put on my tie in time for presentation. dressing quite slack.

anyway, go school early, finalize the slides and stuffs.. slides looks good. decide to send it for printing. it would be a reference for us, and a supplementary notes for the supervisors and 2nd markers.

20 mins before, had suggest this crazy idea of actually showing Phase 1 of this project. Side track a bit, my partner and I are doing the 2nd Phase of this project. So anyway, rationale for this idea, since we want to present this project, might as well show every damn thing rite? haha... went to get the laptop and try to set up the system. the system didn't work. haha... its impromptu la, so everything was rushed during set up. but still i think the idea was put through to the 2nd markers.

Presentation went on really really well. minor hiccups here and there, as usual. but its okay. comments from supervisors were, its a presentation that went beyond their expectations. A bit on the 2nd markers, both of them are Caucasians, one of them from Aussie the other was from States i think or another Aussie. Think its quite unique to have Caucasians 2nd markers. jus love to talk to Caucasians, it gives you a different perspective about things.

A big relieve, very happy and satisfied about the presentation.

Auf Wiedersehen!

my "lovely" family

10 things my family does best:

10. Playing Dumb

09. Disorganized

08. Take things for granted

07. Borrow things and never return

06. No action, Talk only

05. Distort fact

04. Cannot relay message properly

03. Forever assume things

02. Make false accusations

01. Being Idiots!

Preparing for important presentation, trying to recover from a sore throat with a terrible cough so that i can talk and expect me to send cousin for piano lesson at the snap of their fingers? This is damn ridiculous..! Insane..

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Home Run... (IHP)

last obstacle but a major one to overcome next week. IHP Viva. in the midst of preparing the slides. met up with the supervisors. my idiotic partner didn't turn up despite telling him about it. disappear to work reason being he didn't know what time is the meeting. don't know if he is dumb or acting dumb. it was an oversight not telling him the time, but it was his responsibility to find out the time. i bet he has yet to realise the scale of this whole IHP thinggy. and of course jeopardizing everything in its way. as what the church had preached

Good things happen to Bad People, Bad things happen to Good People

this can't be more true. well... another saying goes

One for all, All for One

my horn section's motto. guess gotta bear all the unwanted shit. Optimistic or pessimistic about things? Shall see how things take its course. too tired to scream and yell at people. don't force me. i will do it if i have to.

***UPDATES***
Presentation slides have been re-done and looking good. totally change the format of topics. will update more on this post.

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IHP Experience (Week 18)

BORING!!!BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!!BORING!!! BORING!!!BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!!BORING!!!BORING!!!BORING!!! BORING!!!BORING!!!BORING!!!BORING!!!BORING!!!BORING!!!BORING!!!BORING!!!BORING!!!BORING!!!BORING!!!BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!! BORING!!!

Auf Wiedersehen!

IHP Experience (Week 17)

i am on the verge of killing someone! argh! can't one idiot remember a very simple instruction that was given out on Week 15 which is just 2 weeks ago that the report is a combine report. and 2 weeks ago you gave that now considered as crappy big talk about having a discussion of what to put in for the report. Jolly well disappear for the past 2 weeks and now tell me that you have submitted your report when its suppose to combine with mine? hello to this idiot.. in the first place did you realise that this is a combine project? argh! Thanks for your idiotic actions okay.. it really "help" alot i mean REALLY "HELP" alot... f*** it alright.. go ahead and enjoy your chalet! bloody fool! only applies to this idiot, i withdraw my statement about attitude problem and declare that you have a serious ATTITUDE PROBLEM! for others, my statement applies k...!

seriously, i better think twice, thrice, million, billion, zillion times about working on this project further to prepare it for competition next year..!

yes... report submission deadline this friday 12 noon. so far so good. need to work on the diagrams and print and can submit liao... can consider on holiday from next week onwards!

Auf Wiedersehen!