Date: 12 September 2006 13:43:11
A good start to the day, thanks be to God, with the good news that even though I have moved I can still avail myself of the psychologist I am seeing: I thought, due to me moving government boundaries, I may need to change: but as I've seen her for a while I can continue to see her. Which is very good news as I think we've formed a very good relationship and she is someone I can be open and honest with without fear. Another issue from the past made its way to the surface today: God willing it will begin to be dealt with at the next session.
Tonight was another very enjoyable Western Music Theory class: tonight's music to assist us with the theory ranged from Harry Connick Jnr to Sting to Beethoven to Mary Had a Little Lamb, and even included watching The Sound of Music where Fräulein Maria and the Von Trapp children sing Do Re Mi: which, I learnt, has a name, Solfege, and the Do, Re, Mi... comes from a mediæval hymn to St John the Baptist, Ut queant laxis -- and, that Do was once Ut!
Apart from trivia like that, which I find very interesting, we learnt what makes up melody; how we hear melody; scales, with a quick look at some scales and a deeper look at the Major Scale; rhythm and rhythmic notation -- semibreves, minims, crotchets, etc; and we concluded with an overview of tempo. I truly am enjoying this course, which is presented wonderfully and with plenty of dashes of humor, and I am learning quite a bit about music, both how it is made, how it is written, and how it came about -- fascinating. I'll be sorry when the eight weeks, oh to short!, are over.
On the topic of music, returning to Eurobeat, I give you verse 2 of Ice Queen by Russia's boy band KGBoyz -- runners up on the night I went:
Like a diamond or like a glacier
She's eternal, just like Antarctica
That is no place to be a hot-blooded guy
(Ice ice baby)
I just wanted to ask her for a date
But it seems she wants to refrigerate
And she froze me with just the look in her eye
You know looks can kill, I felt the chill
Even while watching from afar
I felt my soul
Dying from hypothermia