If I had a banh mi for lunch every single day, on what day would I finally say "ugh, another banh mi"? Day 100? Day 1000? Never? I'd be willing to do this experiment

"what does that spell, daddy?" so real

For anyone who will become a parent in the future, just know this: At some point you and your spouse will have a conversation in which one of you says "so I guess we're supposed to ... brush his tooth?"

I appreciate that when the NYT front page shit all over the newfangled "telephone" in 1877, they took the time to absolutely cook people from Philadelphia

AND having no idea where there will even be any such information once you click "view credits" or whether you can even trust what information is there

Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Music Theorists: I'm going to hear Mahler 9 in concert on Saturday night, and I'm genuinely worried that I won't enjoy it if I don't take enough time before then to fully grasp its form

This charmed state of affairs unceremoniously ended a couple days ago. I think this is my sign to spend much, much less time on YouTube

Well this entire thread needs to see the light of day afresh.

Second opera excerpt edited and uploaded! This is the prelude that begins the opera, with Undergrounders and their golems mining deep beneath the earth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms3I...

What do my musicology people know about this?

As a cradle-to-grave vegetarian, while of course I appreciate all restaurants where I can eat anything at all, I have VERY warm feelings for the few places where everything on the menu is veg. If I was a regular at a place like that and then they were like “jk we serve meat now” I would shit a brick

I’ll spare you from me retweeting every single limerick in this thread, but seriously click through if you know what’s good for you

From London to Brighton she fled But alas, in her wake she had led A carnivorous snail Who kept on her trail ‘Til the two were clandestinely wed

My muted words list is both brief and eccentric but I stand by it

deathbed conversion to pdf

Even though we are living through these “historic times,” I did manage to publish something that may be of interest to dance, music, and nineteenth-century people: danzaericerca.unibo.it/article/view...

Harold Hill crosses the midwest building the infrastructure for boys' bands, creating a demand for a generation of young band directors to fill the niche

These awful spellings came from Sarah Anna Glover and the Norwich Sol-fa movement. She was an all around complete and total badass but this is a real stain on her legacy IMO.

My original draft of this post said “as any fule kno,” iykyk

Since, as every consumer of cooking videos from a few years ago knows, pasta water is liquid gold, is there any reason at all why you couldn’t just make it by adding some wheat starch to slightly salty water? Could this be the new bone broth?

As much as I'd like to say it is Sonoma County's beautiful Russian River, my actual home river is really the Petaluma River, which is not actually a river but a tidal slough

I just stumbled upon the knowledge that house style at The Musical Times in the 1930s was to spell the major-key solfège syllables as: doh ray me fah sol lah te doh. 😳

Son: My antiquities have been stolen. Me: We’re your parents and we went out for dinner. Stop calling us that.

Latin and Greek knowers! What do you say? This could be your chance to influence important music-theoretical terminology! @lisafdavis.bsky.social @medievaliste.bsky.social @metalclassicist.bsky.social @lollardfish.bsky.social

The inescapable conclusion here is that the dishonesty and contempt for scholarly norms were not “missed” by the search firm but in fact constitute this clown’s entire set of qualifications

Playing with fire tonight (slightly altering the ingredient ratio in my mac and cheese recipe)

Update: I just drank a 4:30 pm espresso* that took me less than 5 minutes to make because I couldn’t think of a single reason not to (*5:1 soup shot, not real espresso but much more delicious)

Somehow I am only just learning that Fux and Mattheson got into a huge fight in the 1710s over hexachordal solmization, and Mattheson commissioned a woodcut for a publication depicting a LITERAL GRAVE for Guido of Arezzo, the hexachords, and the modes. Pettiness level: advanced.

I just registered for a conference that offers free registration to undergrad students, but they still have to register through the PayPal-supported conference interface and therefore pay a 51-cent fee to PayPal 🤔

"We all need to think about what she did, to really imagine ourselves in the same moment — the danger she stood up to, and the principles she stood up for — if we hope to do the same if a similar moment comes to us."

Hence my theory — cockamamie, of course, except that is it really? — that there was once a concert in which MTT conducted a piece by Feldman. And told the story. And in the audience was a member of the SNL writing staff, about to make history.

New track with impeccable vibes from Jack & co. Also if I had just 10% less self-control I would go on ebay and buy a wurli. Looks like I could have one delivered by middle of next week.

A friend once suggested that if there was a prestige TV Moby Dick series, "Cetology" be handled by hiring David Attenborough to recite incorrect whale facts over a bunch of stock footage for an entire episode.

I am being honest when I tell you this isn’t even all the people who came in second replying to this

Like 12 years ago my friend sent me this picture from his work and it immediately, permanently changed the name of this utensil in my head. The bytes were fully overwritten. I don’t remember the former name of this item and frankly I don’t care

A kindle sale!! Get it now! It’s ebook is annoyingly expensive so this is great!!!

Imagine being this guy and thinking you were some kind of patriot

who knew the death of the author was for their own good

“You can’t kill us all, Nazis” is particularly remarkable and moving because ICE agents could of course kill everyone literally there

Flashing back to 2021–22 since I'm making videos of my classes this week for a bunch of students who are away on a trip, and recalling that I spent like 25% of my work time that year on the nearly insurmountable challenge of getting the videos off my phone and onto Blackboard

Happy first day of school to all who celebrate. Boom! Boom boom boom.

@rebeccakopriva.bsky.social uploaded an audio file of piano music for our students to use in a musicianship assignment and the LMS autocaptioned it throughout. I am crying actual tears.

Would I be right in thinking that the reason why nonfiction audiobooks are now almost exclusively recorded by their authors is that they don't have to pay the authors and would have to pay a professional audiobook reader?

Two things about this series to convince you to watch it: (1) I am now actively considering reading multiple books about the development of the telegraph; and (2) I tried and *completely* failed to describe these videos to my spouse

Two things about this series to convince you to watch it: (1) I am now actively considering reading multiple books about the development of the telegraph; and (2) I tried and *completely* failed to describe these videos to my spouse

I do not even slightly regret to inform you that I have acquired yet another coffee brewer

Problematic fave Bobby S. did in fact have some bangers (Missing like 3 seconds at end b/c tyrannical bsky video limits)

Exciting news in Florence Price Land: Samantha Ege’s edition of Price’s 4 Fantasies is now available for pre-order, thus saving all future pianists from the nightmare hell that I went through global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Maybe a good time to say again that in my presence here I mostly try to be one of these people, despite the low-level worry that some of you will think "Chris must not care about the horrors" I assure you I care about the horrors but why would you want to read what I of all people think about them