just a musical sorta girl

Welcome to cherrypai! If you're here, then you're either interested in academia, specifically music history/ethnomusicology, the sciences, and/or philosophy of various natures, or else you just feel like stalking Anj. Either way, this journal will contain largely academic papers and discourses on various subjects, book reviews (generally non-fiction), random academic dorkitude, the occasional meta-fic, and basically the sort of thing you might run across on the Discovery Channel/Animal Planet/History Channel/etc.

This post is an index of all the papers and such that I have posted, which were written for my M.A. in Music History/Ethnomusicology, and for my M.A. in Liberal Arts/Philosophy. I may go back and add papers from my undergraduate degrees as well, especially since I'm back on a science kick, but we'll see. Also, as I am about to graduate (yay!), I'm going to start trying to add things to this that are written entirely for me rather than as an assignment, and those will go here too. That said, I do work very hard on these things, so please don't steal stuff. Not that you would or anything, but just to be safe.

This journal is here not just for me to be pretentious - I'm posting all of this stuff here because I'm genuinely excited about it and I want to talk about it! So if you see anything you're interested in, don't hesitate to say so! I've not put up Works Cited but I'd be happy to let you know if you're curious about any of it. Or if you want me to explain anything, or you want to have a discussion about something, or you just want to let me know you read, I'd love to hear it. Even if it's you telling me I suck, though I imagine those comments will prolly be answered in a like manner (i.e. 'you suck too ppbbhhht :p').

Much love to you all! ♥

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M.A. Musicology/Ethnomusicology, University of Toronto - degree conferred June 2006
** = final paper

Fall 2004
Music 1205: Comparative Studies in Opera
**Chiaroscuro: Ascent and Descent in 18th and 19th Century Opera

Music 1123: The Renaissance Idea of Music
**Music, Magic, and Mystery: Shakespeare's Use of Music

Music 1000: Introduction to Music Research Methods I
**One Song Glory: Leitmotif and Musical Vernacular in Jonathan Larson's Rent


Spring 2005
Music 1203: Interdisciplinary Approaches to an Interdisciplinary Art Form: Opera
**The End of All Things: Tracing Ragnarok from the Sagas to the Present

Music 1001: Introduction to Music Research Methods II
**Appropriation and Identification: Cover Tunes

Music 1090: Topics in Ethnomusicology
**Film Music and Legend: A Study of Credit Songs in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings
[ PRESENTATION ]


Fall 2005
Music 1015: 20th Century Music
**Myth, Music, and Madness: Perception, Identification, and Diegesis in Baz Luhrmann's Red Curtain Trilogy
Are We In a State of Crisis?
Cinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure: "Leitmotif" and "The Ring Cycle for Adolescents" (presentation)

Music 1202: Music in the Mid-18th Century
**Ballet and Reform in the Mid-18th Century
J.C. Bach's Concerto in Eb Major Op. 7 No. 5

Music 1257: Minimalism
**Black/Black: an artistic representation of Minimalistic ideals
Minimalism and Jazz

Spring 2006
Music 1128: Music-Text Relationships in the Renaissance
**The English Madrigal

Music 1259: World Music Pedagogy
**Music of the World's Theatres: a mock class design (website)

Music 1260: Music of Haiti
**Children's Music in Haiti
The Serpent and the Rainbow: a depiction of Haitian culture in popular media
Rara Music (presentation)



M.A. Liberal Arts, St. John's College Santa Fe - degree conferred December 2007

Fall 2006 [ Reading List ]
Politics and Society - Tutorial
Aristotelean Incontinence
Self-Interest and Kant's Metaphysics of Morals
The Blacks and Whites of the Bill of Rights

Politics and Society - Seminar [ Reading List ]
Rousseau's Destructive Ideals: Can Society Subsist Without Religion? (oral exam)
Notes on Plato's Republic

The Politics of Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Measure for Measure
The Mercurial Philosopher: An Analysis of the Motivation, Mentality, and Madness of Mercutio in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet


Spring 2007
Literature - Tutorial [ Reading List ]
Bitter/Sweet: The Miller and the Reeve's Quest for Youth in Geoffrey Chaucer's Centerbury Tales
On Mortality: The Fragility of Human Life in Shakespeare's King Lear
Transcendence and Transcendentalism: An Analysis of G.M. Hopkins's Windhover

Literature - Seminar [ Reading List ]
The Madness of Antigone (oral exam)

Shakespeare's Macbeth
In Time Will Venom Breed: Control of kaîros in William Shakespeare's Macbeth


Summer 2007
Philosophy and Theology - Tutorial [ Reading List ]
Potency, Potential, and Actualisation
The Limits of Mathematical Terminology

Philosophy and Theology - Seminar [ Reading List ]
Faith vs Reason in the Book of Job (oral exam)

Jung and Job: Jung's Two Essays on Analytical Psychology [ Reading List ]
I is for "Illusion"


Fall 2007

History - Tutorial [ Reading List ]
A Means To An End?
Freedom, Free Will, and the Scope of Philosophical History

History - Seminar [ Reading List ]
The Measure of Honour (oral exam)

Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Timon of Athens: Literature, Music, and History [ Reading List ]
Seek Not My Name: Identity, Labelling, and the Emptiness of Words in William Shakespeare's Timon of Athens