Great ideas for a concert #498C

[woolymonkey]

Play the first movement so that flies drop dead in mid-air and the audience leaves the hall out of sheer boredom.
---Shostakovich's instructions for his fifteenth string quartet., probably not that hard to follow, and one of many reasons the piece is never set for Associated Board Grade exams.

Yes folks, it's week 18 again on AA100.  I'm marking essays.

EITHER Irish Nationalism and the Invention of Tradition (about which I know exactly as much as is covered in the course materials)
OR Musical Tradition in the String Quartets of Shostakovich (about which I know even less)

Candidates should not attempt to answer both questions or write on more than one side of the paper at a time.

Comments

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Good luck!

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Thank you! One more punctual Shostakovich to go, then I get to mark Creative Writing from the other course until I come back to mop up the Irelands and Shosts that came in after the deadline (meaning I can take as long as I want over them).

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

I see your 1066 and all That and raise you the Faeries Aire and Death Waltz.

Bonne chance!

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

That is BRILLIANT! Wait til I show it to musical monkeys. I'm afraid they're not ready to play it, though: their rigatoni needs work. "Release the penguins" should be more widely used.

Where/how on earth did you find that?

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

apologies for commenting twice, it told me it hadn't!

Cannot recall where I first found it -- probably LJ :) (Note there are 2 pages, which I don't think I knew until today!)

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

I'm only seeing 1 comment (plus your reply to mine). But where do I find page 2? Am clearly not having a good day for basic numbers.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Ah! Got p.2 now. :-)

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

I deleted it as soon as it posted and showed up below the original! You may see it in email notifications though.