- allegro ma non troppo -
currently listening to - konna ni chikaku de... (crystal kay)
mood - relaxed
[...continuation]
as mentioned in the previous post, the long-awaited end-of-term holidays have finally began. now i can finally do things that i've longed (?) to accomplish: read my fantasy novels. started on Brave Story last year but couldn't find time to even finish the 1st book (the version i bought has 3 books in total). then i have Kino no Tabi, which i stopped reading halfway due to the same reason. and also some other novels which haven't been flipped and are currently hiding under my bed.
just a while ago the 12 books of Juuni Kokki series have just joined my collection of fantasy novels. of course i didn't purchase the real books (desperately in need of saving money for new life starting in april).. downloaded through the almighty internet.
plus, i have loads of anime and manga beckoning to me. so i guess i have no problem spending my free (or not so free, coz we have to start packing) time in march..
*****
to those who have studied the theory of music before, you might find the title of the post extremely familiar. "slightly fast but not too much", in italian. that's the phrase that i was made to memorise when learning piano. man, i couldn't bother differenciating the meanings between allegro, allegro ma non troppo, allegretto and etc etc.. come to think of it now, i could've learnt another language if i was more interested in piano theory.
these italian, french and german terms haven't seemed interesting to me until i started watching Nodame. as you can tell, the story's related to music. and not just plain J-pop or J-rock, but classical music. the manga/anime/drama portrays a guy who wants to become an orchestra conductor and a girl who wants to become a kindergarten teacher (?) ... who has a talent in playing the piano. the girl's very bad at score-reading, so she remembers the tunes by listening with her ears. that's why songs that she plays are the improvised versions...
i like playing the piano. but ever since my sudachi 3 years ago, i've been deprived of the piano. well i did perform for piano accompaniment during singing competitions (like mandy moore's Only Hope...) and prom concert (evanescence's Bring Me To Life & john mayer's No Such Thing).. and that's it. i'm afraid my fingering has gone all rusty and i can't even play my favourite Alla Turca properly by now. i have even forgotten how close i had been with the piano until i started watching this series.
capriccioso cantabile - capriciously and singingly.
this is a phrase which the conductor guy used to describe the heroine Nodame when she plays the piano. i like the sound of it. maybe coz it's a language that i don't really understand - you know, some human-beings tend to marvel at things that they're not familiar with.
in any case, the fact that i almost locked away my memories with the piano is rather saddening. suddenly the words of the invigilator for tokodai's interview mean so much to me. "please continue playing the piano by joining our music clubs when you enter the university." well i'm not sure if i wanna join a club (coz it's so troublesome and i don't like schedules made by other people)... but i might need to get myself a portable electronic piano when i settle down in the new environment, to remind myself of my memories with classical music..
*****
by the way, Konna ni Chikaku de (by crystal kay) is the ending theme of anime Nodame. released on 28th feb. i always thought that crystal kay's a half of American African and Japanese. the former's correct but apparently her mother's not Japanese but Korean (PR of Japan).
*****
1) sudachi - (young birds) leaving the nest. = becoming independent.
mood - relaxed
[...continuation]
as mentioned in the previous post, the long-awaited end-of-term holidays have finally began. now i can finally do things that i've longed (?) to accomplish: read my fantasy novels. started on Brave Story last year but couldn't find time to even finish the 1st book (the version i bought has 3 books in total). then i have Kino no Tabi, which i stopped reading halfway due to the same reason. and also some other novels which haven't been flipped and are currently hiding under my bed.
just a while ago the 12 books of Juuni Kokki series have just joined my collection of fantasy novels. of course i didn't purchase the real books (desperately in need of saving money for new life starting in april).. downloaded through the almighty internet.
plus, i have loads of anime and manga beckoning to me. so i guess i have no problem spending my free (or not so free, coz we have to start packing) time in march..
*****
to those who have studied the theory of music before, you might find the title of the post extremely familiar. "slightly fast but not too much", in italian. that's the phrase that i was made to memorise when learning piano. man, i couldn't bother differenciating the meanings between allegro, allegro ma non troppo, allegretto and etc etc.. come to think of it now, i could've learnt another language if i was more interested in piano theory.
these italian, french and german terms haven't seemed interesting to me until i started watching Nodame. as you can tell, the story's related to music. and not just plain J-pop or J-rock, but classical music. the manga/anime/drama portrays a guy who wants to become an orchestra conductor and a girl who wants to become a kindergarten teacher (?) ... who has a talent in playing the piano. the girl's very bad at score-reading, so she remembers the tunes by listening with her ears. that's why songs that she plays are the improvised versions...
i like playing the piano. but ever since my sudachi 3 years ago, i've been deprived of the piano. well i did perform for piano accompaniment during singing competitions (like mandy moore's Only Hope...) and prom concert (evanescence's Bring Me To Life & john mayer's No Such Thing).. and that's it. i'm afraid my fingering has gone all rusty and i can't even play my favourite Alla Turca properly by now. i have even forgotten how close i had been with the piano until i started watching this series.
capriccioso cantabile - capriciously and singingly.
this is a phrase which the conductor guy used to describe the heroine Nodame when she plays the piano. i like the sound of it. maybe coz it's a language that i don't really understand - you know, some human-beings tend to marvel at things that they're not familiar with.
in any case, the fact that i almost locked away my memories with the piano is rather saddening. suddenly the words of the invigilator for tokodai's interview mean so much to me. "please continue playing the piano by joining our music clubs when you enter the university." well i'm not sure if i wanna join a club (coz it's so troublesome and i don't like schedules made by other people)... but i might need to get myself a portable electronic piano when i settle down in the new environment, to remind myself of my memories with classical music..
*****
by the way, Konna ni Chikaku de (by crystal kay) is the ending theme of anime Nodame. released on 28th feb. i always thought that crystal kay's a half of American African and Japanese. the former's correct but apparently her mother's not Japanese but Korean (PR of Japan).
*****
1) sudachi - (young birds) leaving the nest. = becoming independent.
posted by aikoais at 3/04/2007 05:54:00 PM
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