panicking.

1. Analysis Major
Duet schemes in Verdi's Aida
[10,000 words and many, many A3 graphs and tables]

2. Analysis 1a - Schenker Studies
Corelli's Trio Sonata [3,500 words and many graphs and tables. Chris wants me to write at least 5,000 words when the word limit is actually 1,500 - 2,000. I'm going to ignore him.]
Chopin's Etude Op. 25 #7 [7,000 words and many graphs and tables. You know, this essay is only meant to be 3,000 words but Chris tells me to write 'as much as I can'. Ugh.]

3. Analysis 1b - Post-Tonal Music and Compositional Theory
Berg's Piano Sonata. I had an idea - wave-formations - but I just found out that someone came up with it three years ago, and had already written a dissertation on it. Damn. I have no slant on it now.
[5,000 words and possibly 15 A3 graphs and tables]

4. Biography and Critism: Mozart
Haven't decided on a topic, Dominic suggests an early Mozart opera. I'm quite sure I'm going to fail this module. This particular tutor hates me.
[5,000 words]

5. Issues in Historiography and Criticism
Something about the problems of Musical Analysis, I think. I don't know what to do either. I don't really want to critique Adorno, and neither do I really want to read his pedantic writing.
[5,000 words]

6. Music and Enlightenment
I was going to do Gluck's Orfeo, but I'm bored to tears by it. Mozart's Marriage of Figaro had been done only about 234987 times, as well as Cosi Fan Tutte, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute. Dominic suggested a Haydn opera, so we'll see how that goes. What's Enlightenment about again?
[5,000 words]

7. Advanced Studies in Musical Analysis and Criticism: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
At least I have a title for this one - Coherence in the Rite of Spring. Something like that anyway. Now - to force my own reading upon the music.
[5,000 words and many graphs]

Ideally, I should finish all these essays by end September, and I've only written about 4,000 words I think. So boys and girls, Lynne is going to bid all of you goodbye for a while (or so I say - procrastination is an incurable disease). Work has claimed me for his own - he's now my new (and extremely needy) boyfriend. I hope we'll break up soon.