This week has gone pretty well. Right now I am trying to figure out how to present my project. I have an idea of how to present the progress that I made throughout the project, but I am not exactly sure how to put it all together. For example, I want to talk about how my years of experience on clarinet allowed me to make a song even though it was very difficult to create. I would like to mention how I originally decided to use Finale to present my music to my audience but then decided to play a portion of my music and show the final draft of my music to my audience. Overall, I need to show the progress that I made in my song. I might even compare the rough draft of my song to the final draft to emphasize the edits that I had to make on my song. Additionally, I played my entire song this week to work out any difficult parts and to determine how long it is. I found out that the whole song is about 6 minutes and 30 seconds. Based on this, I will probably play about a 2 minute portion of my song in my presentation. Next week, I need to put my ideas together into a presentation. I am hoping to have all my plans mapped out after the week is over.

This week I feel alright about my project. I was going to play my song for my mentor, but unfortunately my clarinet is getting repaired this week. However, I plan on playing it in the future for my mentor so that I can get his opinion. Likewise, I have thought of an idea of how to present my project. First, I will talk about the complicated process of writing my song, and how long it took just to make something that sounds reasonably good to an audience. I will talk about how important it is to know music theory. I would like to show pictures of my drafting and I will probably show some of the sources that I used that helped me get started on my song.  I will tell my classmates that listening to other popular clarinet concertos gave me an idea of what I could write for my song. Additionally, I still need to figure out how I could record the song. I need to find something high quality that sounds like a live performance. Otherwise, I might play an portion of my piece so that my classmates get an idea of what it sounds like. Either option would work well. Next week, I need to find some time to play my song for my mentor and possibly record it.

This week I have not had much time to work on my project because of the Hamlet Essay and a Economics project. Despite this, I was able to add some minor edits to my project. For example, I finally created a title for my song. I called it "The Contagious Melody" because the main melody can be heard throughout the song. Basically, the melody "spreads" throughout the song. Moreover, the four movements of the song are named after synonyms for contagious. For example, the 2nd movement is called "Allegro Pestilence", the 3rd movement is called "Infectious Rondo" and the last movement is called "Malignant Finale". Overall, my project is going very well. I have finished my song, and now I must figure out how to record and present it. When I get the chance, I need to talk to my mentor about my song and possibly play it for them. Also, I need to figure out the best way to record my song.