Velez - Senior Thesis

Today I: Worked on my term paper.

Today I: Worked on notating a melody in A minor over a figured bassline. This is traditionally a Classical exercise, but I'm trying to apply it for inspiration and also to think about voice leading 4-part harmony in an instrumental context. I did 3 unrelated lines, each of which took between 20 and 25 minutes, because the note placement has to follow a long set of rules which was established in what we call the Common Practice Period.

Today I: Finished up my submissions for SA&W Poetry Competition. One of these is a short collection, one is a single poem, and the third is a short story. Edited and Added to Something I Said  to make it eligible for the Short Short Story competition at Writer's Digest.

Today I: Started working with the chord progression from a song called Triste by Antonio Carlos Jobim, to start writing a contrafact, a song based on an already-existing chord progression. I have a rough melody sketched out.