Category: writing
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Moralising ballads
This week seems to have seen me concentrating on moralising ballads. On Wednesday I had a long meeting with my supervisor, discussing them and the reformation of manners. He suggested I read an article by Peter Lake on Puritanism, Arminianism and a Shropshire Axe-Murder! I read it this morning. Fascinating, it was. So many layers…
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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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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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Originally posted on patter: That half conscious state between sleeping and waking seems to be the time that I begin to compose a blog post. I often wake up relatively early with a half formed idea. I then work on it idly, gradually waking up, before finally getting up and getting it down. This post…
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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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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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Panel Preparations
So next week I have my 3rd panel meeting. I’ve just finished the work for it and it’s all ready to go to my supervisors in the morning. Tomorrow it’s on to the music! I’ll be very glad to get back to some research after all the methology and planning.
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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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