My entire freshman year was an absolute blast, but the most exciting thing was definitely "music theory bootcamp". When I first heard about it I was completely nervous and scared, but it proved to be thought-provoking, hilarious, and, of course, memorable.
Music Theory Boot Camp (MTBC) was a 3 day long adventure at the beginning of the school year where music theory students wrote an opera and a conjoined composition. To try to explain it here would be like trying to fit a giraffe into my sock drawer, but I'll give it a whirl.
There were about 20 students there, including 5 counselors (one of which I hope to be in a couple of months!) For our opera we made up an absurd plotline and then put it to well known music. Our main character woke up to the tune of "Jesus Loves Me", became depressed to the tune of "Carmina Burana" and went on his first date, waltzing away to "The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy". You can't buy this stuff, folks. It's priceless.
For our conjoined composition, we each wrote 8 measures of music and then mashed them together into what became one giant orchestration of awesomeness. Turns out we had an avid drum player, 3 violinists, 4 pianists, and a few awesome singers in our midst. What started out as a drab hymn sounding piece (with a bunch of conservative Lutherans dare you ask for something different?) quickly turned into an Irish jig with an upbeat first section, slow but somber middle section and a instrument and chorous filled ending.
Yep. I will NEVER forget those 3 days.
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