Having a very bad writer's block! Basically I borrowed three books on Debussy, one of which I think is quite useless, and then another only has one short chapter relevant to my question. The last one has many examples of analyses illustrating the author's point but not enough elaboration about his points and description of the examples. Like how am I supposed to know what he's talking about when he doesn't reproduce the score in the book?! And I can't just blindly copy his examples word for word cos in the first place, I'd probably be seriously penalised if they spot it as plaigarism, and obviously cos just by reading it without any score I can't even tell whether it's relevant for my question. Bleah...

And the organisation is totally crappy cos basically I just borrowed ideas from the short chapter and wrote them in my own words, then now I'm trying to borrow ideas from this book. So the whole thing is jumping from one point to another without any structure at all. But hopefully this will be solved once I get all the points I can say about Debussy in first. Heh Ligeti, Messiaen, Boulez, Berio and Stockhausen can come later, since I think I won't be needing too many points from them. Hopefully that's what the question's asking... if they meant to ask for more points about the rest then I'm totally dead.

Sighz... shouldn't have put in so much effort to do the compositions la! Yesterday was crappy. Haha ok la, the shape and motifs stuff and styles were ok. But all three compositions didn't get played through (except at the piano) cos my classmates were just super put off by the rhythm. Anticipated that I'd probably get killed by the players when they try to sight-read the rhythm but I just didn't change it. I just wrote whatever it sounded like in my head and tried to squeeze them into some sort of meter la. So there were like thousands of ties and everything was offbeat. Stupid me, wasted my time and now I have to rush my essay. Only one other classmate had two completed compositions... the rest had like, maybe 10+ bars of each compo? Should have just scribbled something down and heck. But well, it's good in a way I guess, cos it means that after the essay submission on Monday I won't have to rush out all the compositions in time for compo lesson on Thursday. I can take my time and think about how to notate the rhythm so that they can play it!