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Anyhowly on Twitter: @_anyhowlyGrace: graceteng.ninjaFelicia: someonewhoplaysthepiano.wordpress.com / ruhiglaut.wordpress.comShow Notes• Anyhowly: Ep 1904: Inversions and Fricatives• Wikipedia: Retrograde (music)• Wikipedia: Inversion (music)• Anyhowly: Ep 1906: Finding Time• Painscience.com• Exrx.net

Anyhowly on Twitter: @_anyhowlyGrace: graceteng.ninjaFelicia: someonewhoplaysthepiano.wordpress.com / ruhiglaut.wordpress.comShow Notes• Anyhowly: Episode 1904: Inversions and Fricatives• Wikipedia: Variation (music)• Wikipedia: Rojak• Wikipedia: Adaptation (film)• Wikipedia: The Orchid Thief (not The Flower Thief, sorry!)• The Sufferfest: Visit Sufferlandria• Wikipedia: Chamois leather• Zombies, Run!• Wikipedia: Camera obscura• Wikipedia: Weight plate• BBC Sport: Cycling & suffering: a special relationship• Example of powerlifting singlet and belt:> Titan Support Systems: Triumph Solid Color Singlet> Pioneer Belts: Pioneer Cut 13mm Suede Power Lifting Belt

Anyhowly on Twitter: @_anyhowlyGrace: graceteng.ninjaFelicia: someonewhoplaysthepiano.wordpress.com / ruhiglaut.wordpress.comShow Notes• Wikipedia: Bat out of Hell The Musical• Wikipedia: Meat Loaf• Wikipedia: Peter and Wendy• YouTube: The Dominion Transformed | Bat Out of Hell> Time-lapse of Bat Out of Hell’s set being built at the Dominion Theatre in London• YouTube: American Idiot cast performance at 2010 Tony Awards> Check out the TV screens in the back wall of the set!• Wikipedia: Paradise by the Dashboard Light• Wiktionary: Falx• Note: Maybe Sahara is Bat Out of Hell’s Tiger Lily?

Anyhowly on Twitter: @_anyhowlyGrace: graceteng.ninjaFelicia: someonewhoplaysthepiano.wordpress.com / ruhiglaut.wordpress.comShow Notes• Relay FM: Cortex #44: Existential Time Tracking• Toggl• Bullet Journal• YouTube: A Simple Time Tracker for the Minimalist Bullet Journal by Matt Ragland• YouTube: Sight Reading Competition by TwoSet Violin• Relay FM: Cortex #80: Ice Fortress

Anyhowly on Twitter: @_anyhowlyGrace: graceteng.ninjaFelicia: someonewhoplaysthepiano.wordpress.com / ruhiglaut.wordpress.comShow Notes• Anyhowly: Episode 1904 for more information about Felicia’s Swan Lake melody• Wikipedia: Swan Lake > Alternative Endings• Wikipedia: Into the Woods• YouTube: Andrew Huang > Hacking Jazz• graceteng.ninja: Scribble Sketch #1: Madrid, May 2011

Anyhowly on Twitter: @_anyhowlyGrace: graceteng.ninjaFelicia: someonewhoplaysthepiano.wordpress.com / ruhiglaut.wordpress.comShow Notes• Anyhowly: Episode 1901 for more information about Felicia’s project• Wikipedia: Inversion (music)• Wikipedia: Retrograde (music)• Anyhowly: Episode 1903 for more information about Grace’s project• Julia Cameron: Morning Pages• Wikipedia: The Noonday Demon• RhymezoneEvolution of Grace’s verseONEFloatingDriftingA fog. A dream.A picture out of focus.TWOA fog. A dream.A picture out of focus.Floating. Drifting.Fading to the distance.Dissipating. Awakening.THREEA fog. A dream.A picture out of focus.Floating. Drifting.Fading to the distance.Dissipating. Awakening.A soft light in the darkness.FOURA fog. A dream.A shadow in the darkness.Floating. Drifting.Fading out of existence.Dissipating. Awakening.A soft light in the distance.A flicker. A gleam.A picture comes in focus.

Anyhowly on Twitter: @_anyhowlyGrace: graceteng.ninjaFelicia: someonewhoplaysthepiano.wordpress.com / ruhiglaut.wordpress.comShow Notes• Anyhowly: Episode 1901• Wikipedia: Pippin (musical)• YouTube: Extraordinary from Pippin• Someone Who Plays The Piano: Celestial Playground (Week 17)• Wikipedia: Time signature > Simple vs compound•• Correction: 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8 are all considered compound metres.• We’re not sorry for the detour about scales and modes. If you’re confused, we suggest looking at:•• Beginners: musictheory.net: Key signatures•• Not beginners: Wikipedia: Scale (music)•• Correction: D-flat major and B major do not share the same notes. They share six out of seven notes.• Wikipedia (German): Capitol (Mannheim)• Wikipedia: Willemijn Verkaik• Partial list of songs mentioned:•• YouTube: High Flying, Adored•• Wikipedia: You’ll Be Back•• Wikipedia: It’s All Coming Back To Me Now• Wikipedia: Bat Out of Hell The Musical• Wikipedia: Dance of the Vampires• Theater Freiburg: Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg• Wikipedia: Violin Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich)•• (movements listed as per programme)•• Nocturne•• Scherzo. Allegro•• Passacaglia. Andante•• Burlesque. Allegro con brio• Wikipedia: Symphony No. 3 (Bruckner)•• (movements listed as per programme)•• Mehr langsam, Misterioso•• Adagio, bewegt, quasi Andante•• Ziemlich schnell•• Allegro• Wikipedia: Romantic music• “Allegro ma non troppo”: fast but not too much. (As noted above, the fourth movement of Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 is in fact “allegro con brio”: fast, with spirit.)• Vimeo: Elias David Moncado•• > Adagio in G minor• Wikipedia: Alban Berg• Wikipedia: Twelve-tone technique•• Additional context: Grace mentioned the class about music in Catalonia because that’s where she first encountered twelve-tone music, through the music of:•• Wikipedia: Robert Gerhard i Ottenwaelder (Schoenberg’s only student from Spain)•• Wikipedia: Xavier Montsalvatge

Anyhowly on Twitter: @_anyhowlyGrace: graceteng.ninjaFelicia: someonewhoplaysthepiano.wordpress.com / ruhiglaut.wordpress.comShow Notes• Anyhowly: Episode 1901• > Episode 1901a (unedited version of Episode 1901)• Wiktionary: Frankenbite • Someone Who Plays The Piano: Kite Dancing• Wikipedia: Orchestra > Instrumentation• Wikipedia: Hornbostel-Sachs• Wikipedia: Theremin• Musanim: The Double Revolution of the Theremin• Wikipedia: Piano extended technique • Wikipedia: Prepared piano (Grace’s John Cage reference)

This is an unedited version of Anyhowly Episode 1901. For more context, listen to Anyhowly Episode 1902.

Anyhowly on Twitter: @_anyhowlyGrace: graceteng.ninjaFelicia: someonewhoplaysthepiano.wordpress.com / ruhiglaut.wordpress.comShow Notes• Wikipedia: Lead sheet• Julia Cameron: Morning Pages• Wikipedia: Pippin (musical)• YouTube: Extraordinary from Pippin• Wikipedia: Swan Lake• > Alternative Endings

Twitter: @_anyhowlyGrace: graceteng.ninjaShow Notes- Wikipedia: Crazy Rich Asians (film)- Wikipedia: Crazy Rich Asians (novel)- Guardian: Crazy Rich Asians review- The language discussion:— Wikipedia: Cantonese— Wikipedia: Mandarin Chinese— Wikipedia: Hokkien—— Grace said “Kaki nang” at first, which is actually Teochew. In Hokkien, the expression is “Kaki lang”. - Wikipedia: Jiaozi (dumplings)- Vox: The symbolism of Crazy Rich Asians’ pivotal mahjong scene, explained— Wikipedia: Singapore Mahjong scoring rules- Vulture: Crazy Rich Asians Is A Shiny, Affluence-Porn Rom-Com With a Big Immigrant Heart- Wikipedia: Tyersall Park- Asian Male Sexuality, the Money-Phallus, and Why Asian Americans Need to Stop Calling Crazy Rich Asians the Asian Black Panther- Ethnomusicology: A Very Short Introduction by Timothy Rice, pp. 101-102- Wikipedia: Graceland by Paul Simon (aka “a certain Simon”)- Wall Street Journal: Cultural Borrowing Is Great; The Problem Is Disrespect by Kwame Anthony Appiah- YouTube: If Gandhi Took A Yoga Class by CollegeHumor- Colorlines: Performing Blackness Won’t Fill Our Asian-American Culture Deficit by Muqing M. Zhang- Wikipedia: Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz- Wikipedia: Program music- Wikipedia: Gesamtkunstwerk- Wikipedia: Leitmotif or idée fixe- YouTube: Symphonie Fantastique Mvt 4, March to the Scaffoldconducted by Leonard Bernstein— Idée fixe appears at 4:20— Orchestral hit at 4:28— Timpani roll at 4:30— Major chords at 4:32- Wikipedia: Guillotine (aka the “chop head”)- Apple App Store: The Orchestra- NPR Classical: Marches Madness: Off With His Head!- Wikipedia: Mahler’s Symphony No. 2- Orchestra of the Music Makers- OMM’s Mahler’s 2nd programme booklet- OMM’s video about Mahler’s 2nd- Wikipedia: Freiburg Minster (cathedral)- Süddeutsche Zeitung: Photo of the rear-facing gargoyle on the Freiburg Minster— Translation of caption: At the Freiburger Minster one can find a gargoyle who drains rainwater out of his naked behind. According to legend, the stonemasons were insulting the Archbishop, whose palace lay across from it — but who only moved in long after the figure had been carved.— Various other legends say the stonemasons were insulting the City Council or other church entities.- The Munich monument with two lions is the Feldherrnhalle— Okay, Grace misremembered the story of the lion sculptures. One lion faces the Residenz, the palace of the Bavarian monarchs, and that lion has its mouth open. The other lion faces the Theatine Church, and that lion has its mouth shut. The message is that the army should speak to the monarchs but listen to the church, or something like that. Who knows, maybe Grace’s tour guide was making it up. We have not been able to find a source for this anywhere.- Wikipedia: Haydn’s Symphony No. 45 (Farewell)- Wikipedia: Haydn’s Symphony No. 94 (Surprise)- Anyhowly Episode 6: How Does A Canon Form? for discussion of International Klein Blue and Vantablack- Wikipedia: Representation (arts)- Wikipedia: Abstract art- Wikipedia: International Klein Blue- Wikipedia: 4’33” by John Cage

Show Notes- Wikipedia: Western canon- Wikipedia: Musical repertoire- YouTube: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (complete)- Wikipedia: Johann Sebastian Bach- Wikipedia: Baroque- Wikipedia: Renaissance- Wikipedia: French Revolution- YouTube: John Williams’ Imperial March, by the Prague Film Orchestra- YouTube: Video Games Live at Gamescom 2017- Wikipedia: Gesamtkunstwerk- Wikipedia: Jazz standard- Wikipedia: The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky- Wikipedia: Art movement- Wikipedia: Ludwig van Beethoven- YouTube: Beethoven’s Piano Sonato No. 2 in A major by Daniel Barenboim — an example of how early Beethoven sounds like Mozart- Wikipedia: Lieder tradition- Wikipedia: Great man theory- Wikipedia: German romanticism- Wikipedia: Felix Mendelssohn- Felix Mendelssohn: Reviving the Works of J.S. Bach- Wikipedia: Hungry Ghost Festival (aka “Seventh Month”)- YouTube: Göteborgs Symfoniker, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, plays Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, 1st movement- Wikipedia: BBC Proms- Wikipedia: Also Sprach Zarathustra- YouTube: 2001: A Space Odyssey Opening Scene featuring the iconic theme from Also Sprach Zarathustra- Wikipedia: Crazy Rich Asians (film)- Wikipedia: Paul Klee- Fondation Beyeler: Paul Klee exhibition- Wikipedia: Avant-garde- Quartz on the Yamaha Venova- Wikipedia: Hulusi- Wikipedia: Natural horn- Wikipedia: Saxophone - LA Times explains why the saxophone hasn’t found a home in the orchestra- Wikipedia: Jan van Eyck- Museo del Prado: Collection- Wikipedia: International Klein Blue- Wikipedia: Vantablack> Guardian: Anish Kapoor talks about Vantablack> Guardian: Man falls into art installation - Wikipedia: Computer-generated imagery- Wikipedia: Cinéma vérité- Wikipedia: Sound film- Wikipedia: En plein air- Wikipedia: Pointillism- For pointillism in music, see Wikipedia: PunctualismAftershow- Wikipedia: Sackbut- Wikipedia: Bassoon > Etymology- Wagner tuba- Wikipedia: Lindwurm- Wikipedia: Lindt & Sprüngli- Wikipedia: Dulcian — predecessor of the bassoon- Wikipedia: Shawm- YouTube: Schalmeien Kapelle Freiburg, aka the “orchestra of the many-headed oboe”, performing in Freiburg’s old city

Show Notes• Picture of spin crackers• Theatre Studies and Drama at Victoria Junior College• Wikipedia: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring• For the young’ins: VCD and DVD• Wikipedia: The Phantom of the Opera (musical)• Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor• Zequinha de Abreu’s Tico Tico by the Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Daniel Barenboim• Theatre Studies and Drama 2018 syllabus and exam format (warning: very dry read) — the curriculum changes periodically, but it’s pretty close to what Grace had.• Wikipedia: Tarzan (musical)• Grace’s A Level Theatre Studies texts:> Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett> The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco> Agamemnon, from the Oresteia by Aeschylus> Oedipus Rex by Sophocles• Wikipedia: Theatre of the Absurd• Wikipedia: Theatre of ancient Greece• Wikipedia: Noh Theatre• Wikipedia: The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats• Wikipedia: The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot• An example of the fishbowl sound effect: Sci Guys: Singing Wine Glass• Wikipeda: Turandot• Wikipedia: Madama Butterfly• Wikipedia: The Three Musketeers• Wikipedia: Wayang kulit (Indonesian shadow puppetry)• Wikipedia: A Midsummer Night’s Dream• Wikipedia: Something Rotten!• Wikipedia: A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen• New York University: Undergraduate Film and Television• Amazon: a certain highly-rated filmmaking guide• The overly-blue storefront photo in question• Wikipedia: Production sound mixer• New York University: Marco Williams — Grace took four classes with this guy

Show Notes- Anyhowly 003: Examination Extravaganza- Bounce Singapore trampoline park- Video: How To Seat Drop- Video: How To Back Drop- Wikipedia: Sight-reading- Wikipedia: Ear training- Wikipedia: Time signature- YouTube: Invocazione dell’Imeneo by Carl Orff, performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra- Wikipedia: Conductorless orchestra- Wikipedia: Solfège > Movable do- Wikipedia: Mode (music)> Ionian mode > Aeolian mode> Melodic minor> Harmonic minor - Wikipedia: Interval (music)- Wikipedia: Jazz harmony- Wikipedia: Yamaha Music Foundation- Open Music Theory: Harmonic Analysis- Wikipedia: Music education- Wikipedia: Tritone- Wikipedia: Dotted note- Wikipedia: Jewish music> Sephardic music> Klezmer> Mizrahi music> YouTube: Alef Bet song Aftershow- Wikipedia: Bolster > Come on, rest of the world, get in on bolsters. They’re great. - Wirecutter: The Best Body Pillow (for all you Americans)- Wikipedia: Ant-Man and the Wasp- Maki-san 😍- Wikipedia: Singlish- Pommes Frites in New York City (best fries in NYC)- Wikipedia: Sambal

A deep dive into how Singapore’s education system and cultural priorities affect music education in Singapore. We have pretty strong feelings about this topic… let’s just leave it at that.Show Notes· Wikipedia: Education in Singapore· Wikipedia: Primary School Leaving Examination· Examples of specialty programmes in Singapore schools· Wikipedia: Singapore-Cambridge GCE O Level > Subjects· How to compute L1R5 (don’t faint)· Third languages offered in Singapore· A fancy map of Singapore’s education system· Note: Felicia went to a workshop at a tertiary institute where the participants learnt to build a speaker. The instructors’ station was a solder station, not a glue gun station.· Wikipedia: Singapore-Cambridge GCE A Level > Subjects· Music Elective Programme Admission Requirements· Example of ABRSM exam format (Grade 5 Piano)· Scales on the piano…o … in similar motiono … a 3rd/6th aparto … in contrary motiono … chromatic· Wikipedia: ABRSM· Wikipedia: Trinity College London· MOE’s Art and Music Teacher Training Scheme· Wikipedia: Livery company· Wikipedia: Guild· TED: Do schools kill creativity? by Sir Ken Robinson· RSA Animate: Changing Education Paradigms by Sir Ken Robinson· Wikipedia: L’art de toucher le clavecin (Couperin’s Art of Playing the Harpsichord)· New Republic: Stop Forcing Your Kids To Learn A Musical Instrument

Grace and Felicia wonder what is not art, and end up discussing whether design, popular music, video games, craftsmanship, and food are or can be art. We also briefly visit some classic ideas of art philosophy.Show NotesThis particular episode has a lot of links and references!· Definition of Malay agak: to guesstimate· “Sian Pin Honey Cakes” are usually called Iced Gem biscuits· Artnews: Three Things That Are Not Art, According to John Baldessari· WWDC 2007: Steve Jobs talks about the iPhone touchscreen· Wikipedia: Esplanade — Theatres on the Bay· Wikipedia on Doric, Ionic and Corinthian Columns· Wikipedia: Fountain by Marcel Duchamp· Bands, musicians, albums and songs mentioned during discussion of popular music as art:o Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon and The Wallo The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Bando Def Leppardo Queen: Bohemian Rhapsodyo The Who: Tommyo ABBA: Mamma Mia! (the musical)o Cole Porter: Anything Goes (the musical)o Rodgers and Hammerstein· Preface to the Picture of Dorian Gray· NYTimes: Oscars to Add ‘Popular Film’ Category· Monument Valley· Alto’s Adventure· Celesteo Playing for Fun #2: Celeste (Grace misremembered the death counts!)· Cuphead· Wikipedia: Diego Velázquez· Wikipedia: Mimesiso Mental Floss reference to Plato and mimesis: 27 Responses to the Question “What is Art?”· Wikipedia: Musica universalis· Karl Paulnack’s Welcome Address to Freshman Parents at Boston Conservatory· The mysterious TED talk is Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius· Wikipedia: Quartet for the End of Time· Jelly Keys: Shangri-La Flows artisan keycap· Wikipedia: Horror vacui· Singapore Infopedia: McDonald’s Hello Kitty toy promotion· Netflix: Chef’s Tableo Christina Tosi episodeo Dan Barber episodeo Grant Achatz episodeo Corrado Assenza episodeo Jordi Roca episode· Michelin Guide: Singapore· Wikipedia: French Revolution· Yves Klein’s International Klein Blue works· NYTimes on Richard Serra: Sketches from the Man of Steel (Grace is not sure whether she saw these in the Guggenheim Bilbao or at the Metropolitan Museum of Art…)· The David Mamet quote is from his book True and False. Here’s the 1997 NYTimes review of the book.Aftershow· Baby names that mean “horizon”· Wittner Metronomes (we have the 811m and the 817wh)· Hodinkee: A Look at A. Lange & Söhne’s Balance Cock Engraving (is this not art?)· Wikipedia: Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez· Wikipedia: Saint George and the Dragon by Peter Paul Rubens· One Page Books: Romeo and Juliet

Grace and Felicia discuss curiosity, asking questions, and exploring unknown territory. We fall down many rabbit holes, many of them having nothing to do with art or questions. If you're curious about who we are and how we got here, this is the episode to start with.Show Notes· Germany: Memories of a Nation by Neil MacGregor· Language Rush· Eclectic Commentary· Deep Travel· The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg· Steve Kuhn — Saga of Harrison Crabfeathers (before conversion to odd meter)