M.Phil.

So, there's masses of work to be done (definitely enough to keep me occupied up to the Auguest 31st deadline): improving of extant passages as well as the addition of new passages and removal of poor ones, front-matter to be written, cross-references to be filled in, musical examples and other images to be added in, and making of the thesis into a coherent entity rather than three relatively disparate chapters, but... it somehow has enough of completion and coherence and continuity about it that I think I'm going to call it a first draft.