dearest mayla,
just like you, i love music, so i'm just doing what i like. my teacher in music history last semester thought i was just average, so i'm not out to impress anyone. you really have to work hard to get an 'A' in those classes. you have to find primary sources (written usually at or around the time of the composer) instead of secondary sources (written by people who knew @ 3rd generation - and passing on info. like a piece of gossip - often something is wrong!) i mentioned journals, but what you can get from journals is source ideas (at the back of the article). THEN, you go to the primary sources you find.
of course, the internet is MUCH easier but often, (as my teacher said), wrong. because it is a secondary source. you have to take information with a grain of salt. and, prove or disprove with other sources. this take s A Lot of time. so, much of what we thought we knew, or thought we understood, is really from a long line of misnomers that we keep perpetuating until we meet a musicologist.
i am jealous of your multi-tasking abilities. that is why i have to be quick. i cannot concentrate on more than one thing at a time.
terrible terrible about the man who lost his wife in mississippi. thus "where have all the flowers gone...", to me, means somebody's dead. they get flowers, but someone steals them off the grave because they need them for someone else. too many dead!! the best way i remember deceased people in my family is to think about them when they were alive. they'll never see the flowers anyway. if i was rich, i'd probably put flowers out - but many of the burial plots are thousands of miles away from me.
God compares it to being stuck in a room for a while. "come my people, enter into your rooms..." since He can ressurrect us from nothing (since he made us from the dirt in the first place). i think of my dear old grandfather who probably was purposely cremated to see if God could fix that one! especially if the ashes are scattered. what a shocking thing to be ressurrected! because all bodies decompose anyway and nothing is usually left after a few years either way. unless, you want to be mummified.
you're welcome about the cadenza info. i realize now, it wasn't exactly what you had in mind (a whole research paper)...but rather maybe some tidbits of info to share. that's probably all people can read on a computer screen anyway. i mean it hurts your eyes to read more than two or three lines (especially if they are not double spaced).
i singned school papers last night for an hour. now, i have a sort of writer's cramp typing this. must sign off. have a good night, pink waterlilly. (have you ever been in mikkado - that's your next singing role, ok).
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