Category: ballads
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Happy days
Well, the planning paid off. At least in as much as I got through my big supervision meeting on Wednesday without making a complete fool of myself. Actually, they seemed to be quite impressed with the content, if not entirely by the structure, of the work I submitted. My music specialist gave me lots of…
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The forgotten art of planning
On Friday afternoon I sent off first draft of my first chapter to my supervisors. It’s been a tough week, as on Monday evening I was really struggling to make the chapter work because it had just evolved out of my notes. I couldn’t get the separate bits of the chapter to hang together –…
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PhD and parenting…
I think it might be a fortnight since I last posted an update on my work, but as it’s been the children’s Easter holidays, I’ve not had all that much time either to work, or to write about it on my blog. There have been several family trips out, for example to Brockholes and Sizergh…
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The research paradox
As I posted on twitter, I have hit upon a paradox in my work. The more I read, the more I want to write. The more I write, the more I need to read. This one’s a difficult one. Here’s where I am. Yesterday I read through my musicological ballad analysis chapter and started to…
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Sound a fanfare
Back to work tomorrow. I did excavate my desk this afternoon, as it had disappeared underneath several stacks of papers. I’m going to ease myself in gently with some reading. For one thing, I need to remind myself what I was actually working on before I was taken ill, which I can’t really remember! I…
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A Little Bit Excited
I’m about to go and meet a friend for coffee (well, in my case, tea) to discuss trying to put together a pnael for the EMREM symposium on Birth, Sex and Death (http://emremforum.wordpress.com/). I have no idea if I’ll even be able to get a babysitter to let me get to the conference, but the fact…
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A new one on me…
As I write this (a day late – yes, I know), I have just passed through Stafford on the Pendolino, on my way back from London, where I attended the Historical Association’s Branches and Members Committee Meeting. It’s going dark outside the windows, and in the last quarter of an hour I’ve been watching lights…
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Panel 3
I was a bag of nerves on Tuesday evening, ahead of my panel meeting on Wednesday morning, as those who saw me that evening could testify. I go giggly when I’m nervous, and it makes people who don’t know me think I’m not taking things seriously, which is not the case. Terror doesn’t quite have…
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Floundering…
It’s always like this at the start of a new piece of work. The floundering. I’m starting to investigate the music, and I have spent the last day or two looking at modal theory, finding out about hexachords, looking in to the life and times of Archbishop Matthew Parker and playing with ballad tunes. I’ve…
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Friday night is blogging night.
With sincere apologies to BBC Radio 2, because that really was a terrible title. The thing is, I’m running out of novel and interesting ways to describe similar weeks! I have spent much of this week reading and writing about historical and literary theory – the likes of Jauss, Bourdieu, Skinner, Thompson and Fish. This…
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