on being the same ol' Disheveled Self I usually am
Well, I guess episodic ravings of my semester can't last forever. I know, I know, we've only just passed one week. And I still love life, the universe, and everything. But I will do silly things that mess up day: like sticking my car's registration/insurance in a book as a bookmark in the car and then panic because I notice they're not in the ashtray (my glove compartment fell off years ago--and I don't ash, so the ashtray is actually a very good spot to keep them) (Mom2, I don't want to hear those groans and sighs and rolling of the eyes!! I punish myself enough!!). Then I forgot my gamba, so had to cancel my first lesson, which is pretty dorky. Then I realize that I don't really understand what a ratio is. What is a ratio? what is the relationship really of x:y? Because I'm learning that understanding a ratio is pretty helpful if you want to understand anything of early medieval musical theory.
On the plus side, I want to say that I'm really enjoying C. S. Lewis's scholarly works. The book into which my car's registration/insurance found their way was his Allegory of Love. How he can break down something so complex as the history and philosophy of courtly love into something so simple and still so relevant for scholarship over 50 years later is really amazing. I could take him or leave him as a theologian, but as a medievalist, I really am enjoying him.
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no eye rolling in from this quarter! You are my hunnybunny, and I think you are perfect!
Did you know that your philosopher husband took a whole class on love as an undergrad? Just pointing it out in case you guys haven't covered that ground in your short acquaintance. Love is something he knows a thing or two about.
Posted by: mom2 | 31.08.04 08:38
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Yes, I know that. We've discussed it at length. His problem with that time in his life, though is that he was fed up with courtly love and wanted to move on to Pynchon. So he's not quite the resource he could be, except for saying "Foucault wrote about that." But then he can say that for about anything. :)
Posted by: Jeannette | 31.08.04 10:46
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Ratio = Comparison
For 8:9, our new favorite ratio which describes the tone, compare a tube, wire, string, or something else 8 cm long next to one 9 cm long. The 8 cm one will be a tone higher than the 9 cm one. Same with 3:4, 1:2, etc. That might help, or it might not. =)
Posted by: Erica | 01.09.04 16:06