Monday, September 21, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
It's been a while.
Ah, but how grand life has been. :)
Since I last posted, I left my job and returned to school--this time to finish my bachelor's in music education. After I graduate, I will pursue my masters in music history and my doctorate after that (most likely).
My ultimate goal is to pilot a music program in the Faroe Islands--I know there's quite a demand for music over there. :) I'm so excited!
So far, I'm trying to practice 15-20 hours per week on piano, and roughly five hours each week on euphonium. My faculty is coming back a lot quicker than I expected, and my instructor is amazing--through her guidance, playing my euphonium is starting to become an enjoyable experience again...finally. I haven't felt that in a really long time.
Piano is rocking as always, and I'm improving by leaps and bounds. Right now I'm working on Scarlatti's Sonata in D minor (517), Gottschalk's Bamboula, and Chopin's Nocturne in Eb major. I'm actually going to start posting the highlights of my practicing on YouTube so I can track my progression as the year unfolds.
I'm also working on learning Faroese. The pronunciation is actually going a lot quicker than I thought it would--there are lots of parallels with German, so that's great. Having experience with singing in choirs has also helped immensely--it's easier to hear how the vowels are shaped based on what I've leaarned singing in other languages. Faroese, for example, has darker vowels that are shaped near the back of the throat (sort of like Latin) rather than the front-of-mouth vowel shapings of English.
Um...what else? I'm playing a harpsichord on a regular basis, which is awesome.
I'm still spinning wool, still wanting to get my hands on some Faroese yarn...
Anyway. *grins* More later.
~Miriam
Since I last posted, I left my job and returned to school--this time to finish my bachelor's in music education. After I graduate, I will pursue my masters in music history and my doctorate after that (most likely).
My ultimate goal is to pilot a music program in the Faroe Islands--I know there's quite a demand for music over there. :) I'm so excited!
So far, I'm trying to practice 15-20 hours per week on piano, and roughly five hours each week on euphonium. My faculty is coming back a lot quicker than I expected, and my instructor is amazing--through her guidance, playing my euphonium is starting to become an enjoyable experience again...finally. I haven't felt that in a really long time.
Piano is rocking as always, and I'm improving by leaps and bounds. Right now I'm working on Scarlatti's Sonata in D minor (517), Gottschalk's Bamboula, and Chopin's Nocturne in Eb major. I'm actually going to start posting the highlights of my practicing on YouTube so I can track my progression as the year unfolds.
I'm also working on learning Faroese. The pronunciation is actually going a lot quicker than I thought it would--there are lots of parallels with German, so that's great. Having experience with singing in choirs has also helped immensely--it's easier to hear how the vowels are shaped based on what I've leaarned singing in other languages. Faroese, for example, has darker vowels that are shaped near the back of the throat (sort of like Latin) rather than the front-of-mouth vowel shapings of English.
Um...what else? I'm playing a harpsichord on a regular basis, which is awesome.
I'm still spinning wool, still wanting to get my hands on some Faroese yarn...
Anyway. *grins* More later.
~Miriam
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