Blog #3

This blog post will concern this week, the 20th and 21st.

Since refining my topic, great strides of progress have been made.

To reach my goal of making an hour-long lecture video (though no promises, it is ambitious), I will need to write at least 600 words a day until the filming days (next Thursday and Friday) to keep on track. On Monday, I took my outline (a very rough draft of one) and smoothed it out so that I know exactly what I want to say within the lecture. With an outline ready to go, I decided to write a draft of the first three sections of the lecture: the introduction, what I think sincere music sounds like, and virtuosity and technical brilliance versus musical expression. These all tie into the theme of sincerity, specifically what makes someone's playing sincere or how we know the piece of music is sincere. 

On Tuesday, yesterday, I refined my thinking and thought deeply about how I want the lecture to progress. I also brainstormed what I want to say within the sections which I haven't written yet: Music from the Future: is it sincere?, Was the music of Brahms and Mahler a farewell to true classical music before tonal chaos?, What makes the 20th and 21st Century Tonal Chaos Sincere?. I have some very intriguing ideas for each of these, some even requiring me to learn a passage or two in certain pieces I want to demonstrate. 

Today will be a more logistical day, rather than a script-writing day. I am meeting with my mentor in a few hours to discuss certain possibilities with this lecture. 

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