Academic Decathlon 2018 - 2019

                42 - 43 taught in classes, reprised world stages, award winning film, at least 100 scholarly works premier at National Theatre in England , initiated by positive reviews at Edinburgh Fringe Festival year long run at Alvin Theater  on Broadway 50th anniversary  - restage at Old Vic  under directorship of David Leveaux Daniel Radcliffe  play Rosencrantz always associated with role of Harry Potter March 2017  - Variety  magazine, compare 2017 production  favorably to 2011 directed by Trevor Nunn , described as lumbering 2 hour 45 minutes Adam Sorkin  speed (Sorkin productions, The West Wing) David Benedict  - effortless stillness Susannah Clapp (The Observer)  - amiable and bewildered Helen Lewis  ( The New Statesman)  - unlikely success,  absurdist style wildly out of step with current theater trends successful production owes more to h...

                39 - 42 audience encompassed by darkness voices of Ros and Guil are heard, Ros question whether they've already died he can feel a leg, but it's dead. turned out to be Guil's leg they're on a boar, accompanied by Hamlet memory of messenger replaced by new charge to take Hamlet to  England Guil speak of freedom found on boat, but with its limitations concludes that they're programmed, scripted by one purpose only discover Hamlet is sleeping, play game of coins Ros hides two coins, one in each fist Guil trick Ros into revealing he was cheating all along source of coins is Claudius, neither willing to say how much letter asks for Hamlet to be executed when he reaches England Guil complain about Ros's lack of initiative in social interactions, Ros distraught with emptiness of everything Guil try to counsel his friend, insist there is certainty that they  carry a letter letter in Guil's po...

                30 - 32 most common embellishing notes are: 6, 7, 9 above root of chord as long as root is on bottom, other notes can be in any order addition of 4th pitch rarely changes function of original triad, but adds richness ╓═══════☆═════ ══╖       Chromatic Harmonies           and Modulation ╙═══════☆═══════╜ simple harmony is diatonic, uses triads complex harmony uses chromatic pitches, 4+ notes Take Me Out to the Ball Game  - chromaticism heard in phrase "buy me some peanuts" modal mixture  - one or two pitches altered to make minor minor keys more chromatic than major  natural minor has no leading tone modulate  - change keys simplest way: use accidental to create dominant seventh chord of new key, resolve to new tonic from B major to C, would have to go through every key in between if long enough, double b...

                24 - 30 take AP music theory instead bc the resource guide sucks key  - set of 7 notes, or scale, selected for a piece key signature  - sharps of flats at start of staff, indicate key of music in key signature with 1 sharp: E scale needs raised 2nd note (F) to become natural minor G scale needs raised 7th note (F) to become major scale all 3 types of minors use the same key signature, harmonic and melodic use accidentals  to individual notes key signature is for convenience C and Eb are relative minor-major scales 30 possible keys (y'all ugly for that) 15 major, 15 minor (once again, y'all ugly)  circle of fifths  goes in fifths perfect fifth  - 7 half steps 3 pairs of scales overlap: B/Cb  - 5 sharps/7 flats F#/Gb  - 6 sharps/6 flats C#/Db  - 7 sharps/5 flats order of sharps: F C G D A E B fat cats go down alleys eating burg...

                79 - 81 ╓═══════☆═════ ══╖               Early Career ╙═══════☆═══════╜ Donald Judd  born in 1928  in Excelsior Springs, MO childhood in various Midwest cities high school in NJ , enlist in army after graduation serve a year in Corp of Engineers , stationed in Korea , survey airport landing strip, supervise construction of  prefabricated buildings 1948  - enroll in classes at Art Students League in NY left few months later for College of William and Mary return to Art Students League after 2 semesters, committed  to idea of becoming artist or architect enroll in Columbia University , graduate with degree in  philosophy in 1953 several group shows in NY 1958  - return to Columbia for masters in art history, studying with Meyer Schapiro began writing art criticism for Art News , wrote for publicati...