I am still the Queen of Flashcards...

[galadriel210]

Took the music history mid-term today. High points: A matching section. Thats right. Just like in junior high, pick an answer from the box. Granted, it was only a point each, but still. Also, I studied much harder than I needed to for most of the test. Low points: A 10pt (out of 100) question on the significance of Beethoven as was relevantly

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[nightdragon]

who's the teacher?

i had skeletor/ithsma for MH 2... she did "comparable" listening, too... and it came in REALLY handy in the grad class with Gibbons (which i suggest taking if you have an extra class and like choral lit.)

:)

I've managed to avoid all the normal MUMH teachers somehow

[galadriel210]

He is a "guest professor" from Missouri, I think - a friend of Dr. Brothers, who was supposed to teach the class but dropped it at the last minute. He's a great teacher, really. I just don't happen to like "comparable listening" :P
He comes off as really old school and hard core, but he's really funny and yet to follow through with his threats :)

I tried to take Gibbon's choral lit class during the summer, but when I asked about it he said I needed to take the other Histories first. Then lots of people took the class with ZERO of their histories and did fine - they just didn't ask him about it. lol - I should have just taken it and not said anything. Because of his health and being busy anyway, I think he is only teaching it during the summers. (and this is my last summer of normal classes, hopefully.) Oh well.

Re: I've managed to avoid all the normal MUMH teachers somehow

[nightdragon]

is his health worse off than when it was?

yeah, he was teaching MUMH in the summer starting my last semester @ UNT, but he teaches a Graduate choral lit class that is *awesome*.. but it's not under the MUMH umbrella. i got permission to take it as a comparable course, then ended up taking the actual mumh class. i think it was technically MUAG, but it was cool to be in a class of graduates and doing better than some of them. :)

heh... shows you for being honest and up front. ;) really, when i took the summer course, it was on Requiems, and it would have been okay without having taken the first two general courses in mumh, but his whole purpose is to give a deeper understanding, and if you don't have the foundation (which you probably mostly do), it's hard to build on it.

The grad choral lit class, if he's still offering it, was both long semesters, the first being early through the end of baroque, and the spring being the rest of the timeline through modern. was good stuff if you're interested in it. *hugs*

Re: I've managed to avoid all the normal MUMH teachers somehow

[galadriel210]

I don't know if you heard but he was diagnosed with cancer at the end of last spring. Testicular I think. But he's doing well - I haven't seen much of him since about the end of June.