TFW a composer on another platform brags about this totally new way they have for harmonizing melodies and it turns out to be counterpoint. Like, the-thing-we’ve-done-since-the-Notre-Dame-School-in-the-12th-century counterpoint. 😑

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

Okay, the internet can be good sometimes. m.youtube.com/shorts/TOvRW...

Doing transposition in theory this week, so I gave them "Never Gonna Give You Up" as a melody to transpose. "It's too early to be rickrolled" they said 😂 I will always take any chance to rickroll my students

I keep seeing people use the "It's not _____, it's ____" construction as a red flag for AI writing, and folks? We don't have to concede the concept of juxtapositions to the machines. It's a very useful rhetorical device, stop being weird about it.

I really hate how "creator culture" conditioned everyone to think that because some creators get paid for it by the platforms, that anyone who posts anywhere is basically a merchant providing a service who has to keep customers happy

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I love music and listening to it is fun and good. Not to get too spicy on main.

A student from music theory pedagogy sat in on my sophomore theory class today, and he said after that I'm fabulous and that I made him want to take theory again 💕 Maybe the demons are wrong; maybe I'm not a bad teacher. He also forgot he was observing and fully raised his hand to participate 😂

audio design is my passion

I'm sooo excited to bring the guy I just started dating to hear Mozart's Jupiter this weekend. He's never been to a classical concert! Can't wait for his thoughts hehe

anyone telling u outright not to learn music theory is secretly an evil robot trying to keep u from making cool shit

A framing that I find helpful: it's not that various AI algorithms aren't "intelligent" (though they aren't), it's just that we've severely underestimated just how intelligent human beings are.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

I heard live music last night and now feel alive again. Funny how that works, isn’t it?

Giving the kids their own podium and having the press ask them questions is the cutest thing I've ever seen

Neat!

this is the same argument that protects abusers in classical music, by the way, & is just as wack, & has the same consequences

Was talking about "last year" and said "2015," so that's where we're at 😅

If you are a novice improvisor and you want a gentle introduction, try playing the black keys of the piano over any of the following: "Superstition" and "I Wish" by Stevie Wonder, "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye, and the first two minutes of "Mothership Connection" by Parliament.

Negative harmony is the homeopathy of music theory

I just selected a book from my bookshelf for my next read, instead of buying a new book. Did any of you know this is possible? I had no idea.

Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is stay soft in a world that keeps asking you to harden up. Pay attention to what steadies you — a quiet moment, a voice, a song — and keep those things close. They ain’t escapes; they’re anchors.

I'd rather be talking about the mysteries of the universe than thinking about the stupidity of this world.

Sometimes when I'm tired, I read "organo" on a score as "oregano"

The one difference between the USA and other analogous governments is the porousness of the information environment. The instant, global dissemination of cell phone videos that contradict official accounts. It is essential that people continue to document everything

THE TIME TO BECOME PUBLIC ARCHIVISTS IS NOW! download videos off of social media! write in your journals! take photographs & develop film! make backups of hard drives! take voice notes! they will try to erase everything if they can, they can't take information from all of us

Harsh but fair.

Students asking to meet with me at 5 pm on Friday 😀

My favorite thing about music is when it

Do yourself a favor and hug a kitty today

Always remember that listening to music can be the entire activity. Put on headphones. Blast it through speakers. Close your eyes and just listen. Listening to music is not a background activity. It can be the entire journey, and it's worth the time.

My son put it best when he was a young kid: "Cats are great because you get happy every time you encounter them. You turn a corner, and there's a cat there, and it's like there's a cat, and that's great." I always think about it whenever I turn a corner and encounter a cat.

Everyone enjoys listening to the music they like. Being a music fan means you also enjoy listening to the music you don’t like.

Personally I just really love reading. But I also adore libraries so go to your library this new year. They have all the books, you can request books and they nearly all have a online service for e books these days. #Libraries2026

the meaning of life is to listen to music as much as possible

When I have students say that a certain thing I have assigned is hard I often reply, “well, enjoy, I know you like doing difficult things because you decided to play the cello”

i love it when im listening to a song ive heard hundreds of times and suddenly notice something i never did before

I LOVE MUSIC THEORY

music theory needs more fun names like "cowboy chords"

If you keep discovering new music, you don’t die.

I propose that we start pronouncing "envelope" to rhyme with "Penelope"

I tell my students they have to form a self-conception as someone who *just does* go to class. If you wake up every morning and have to *decide* to go to class, you will end up missing too much class even if you’re a fairly disciplined person. You can’t be weighing the pros and cons every day

actually please cite the deep magic to me, yeah I was there when it was written but this is plagiarism

I'm so grateful that this world has music

the good that you do persists in this world

As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet. Forever.

something about singing a vocal harmony with another person always imbues me with this very slight urge to run away with that person, love them forever, etc