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. . . my sophomore piano platform exam!! Whew! It’s a nice feeling to be done with the 15 most stressful minutes of my life (in regards to piano, that is). I had 5 piano teachers staring at my fingers the whole time - Drs. Parker, Davis, Moore, Wilson, and Kendall. I don’t know what my grade is yet, but at least they told me I passed.

Good feelings . . . *sigh* . . .

Update: I got my grades and comments sheets back this week. Apparantly, my judges (see above) had different opinions about my playing. I received two A’s, two B’s, and one C (ewww). I believe it all averaged out to a high B+ for the semester. I was hoping for an A, but I guess I’ll have to settle for that…

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Happy Birthday to my dad, Steve Anglea, upon completing his 49th trip around the sun today! He’s now got to be one of the oldest (however, liveliest) youth pastors in existance today.
Sorry dad… I didn’t have time to get you a card. Hope this makes up for it.

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I’d like to share with you a few blessings that have come my way recently.

1. Scholarship money

First off, I got a letter in my PO box here at school yesterday informing me that I was one of the recipients of a small amount of scholarship money. The letter from Dr. Lawson reads:

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Mr. Donald Meagley, a longtime friend of the University and now deceased, left an endowment to the University. The annual income from this endowment is specifically designated for young men and women from Division of Music who have good keyboard skills, a financial need, and evidence the desire to use their keyboard skills in some way in the Lord’s work.

The music faculty and the University administration jointly choose the recipients for this scholarship fund, and I am happy to inform you that you have been selected to have the amount of $360 applied to your current school account. We rejoice with you that the Lord has provided this special gift to help you with your college expenses.

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While that is not an overwhelming amount of money, it is still a great blessing and I am very thankful for it.

2. Uncrowded room

If you’re scratching your head about that one, let me explain. This week at BJU is “AACS Week.” About 2,000 high-schoolers and adult sponsors come for a few days of Fine Arts competitions. This means that all dorm students should be expecting to have visitors in their rooms. But somehow, my entire hall does not have any visitors in the rooms (incredible!). What’s more, one of my roommates is on “cuts” this entire week, so there’s actually one less person in the room (3 instead of 4 when we could have easily had 6).

3. Day of Rest

Ok, so this wasn’t actually “unexpected,” but it is still a blessing. With the coming of AACS week, classes are cancelled today (Wednesday). This means that I actually got to sleep in! Whoo hoo! Maybe I can actually get some stuff done today . . . think of it!

These three items of praise have been particularly refreshing for me. All I can do is thank the Lord. As my friend Josh says . . . “What a blessing!”

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Here it is, my modal composition for Advanced Harmony II. A few quick details and then the MIDI:

• I titled it “Mixolydian Dance No. 5.” Why? Just as a play on Hungarian Dance No. 5 (even though it sounds nothing like it). It is pretty fast and “dance-like” though.
• If I didn’t make it obvious enough, it is in the Mixolydian mode (duh) with a few deviances.
• It is in 6/8 (3/4) time (one measure in duple compound meter followed by a measure in triple simple meter, and so on). I still am stumped as to how to set that up in Finale, so I eventually just wrote it in manually using the expression tool. I had to manually rebeam some of the measures manually, but it’s ok.
• About 50 measures in about 50 seconds. It moves fairly quickly.
• For Piano and French Horn. I wrote it like that so Jed could play in it class for me, but we never did play it in class. Oh well.
• It was a result of working on it Friday night and some of Saturday. Ie. I didn’t spend weeks on this, so don’t feel like you got gyped if it doesn’t meet your expectations.
• Here’s the MIDI.

Again, let me know what you think.

Oh, BTW, I got my Original ABA back . . . A+ . . . with this note: “I guess you should probably be a musician, after all.” Not sure what that’s supposed to mean, but I’ll take it.

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