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Music theorist and pianist at University of Louisville, he/him, the most wonderful woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped
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Me today at CU Boulder—very excited to share these ideas!

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I'm giving a long talk about music and taxonomy later today. Should I slip in in just one "taxidermy" to see if anyone's paying attention, y/n

submitted 22 hours ago • 5 comments

The music/cryptanalysis connection! 🤔

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

No-context sentence from the talk I'm giving tomorrow: "In fact, music is much worse than trees."

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

“Should we find a French speaker real quick and ask them to double-check our accent usage?” “Nah, I’m sure it’s fine”

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I wonder what it means for something to matter—as this quantitatively illiterate graphic implies is the case with trans issues—just a little bit less than not at all

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This classic Language Log post is good for understanding what the passive actually is as opposed to “has vibes of obscuring agency”

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

It's been ages (okay a few months) since I've posted about the Beach Violin Sonata, so just to stay in shape let me recommend that you listen without delay to the slow movement, whose climax is the Romantic violin sonata equivalent of falling into the vat of liquid metal at the end of Terminator 2

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Side-eyeing your basic-bitch Henle kit while rocking my Wiener Urtext

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Here & following, Matilda explains in just 3 posts why trying to make a piano sound like a harpsichord is not the key to playing Baroque music well on piano!

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Considering getting a recurring bit going in which I insist that I think Nancy Sinatra was a better singer than her dad

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

ooh ooh! and "tiered dynamics" (the mythical Baroque performance practice of shifting between dynamic levels only abruptly, never with ordinary crescs. and decrescs.) is suspiciously similar to the modernist interest in selecting a discrete dynamic level for every note (per serial or other process)

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Bond movies are up there with New Yorker cartoons as things that are (almost) universally liked by people with otherwise decent taste yet are in reality (almost) universally terrible

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

(year or so ago) me: [laughs at some tarantula dick type thing on my phone] kid: what are you laughing at? me: uh, jokes kid: jokes about what?? me: [panicked, lying] oh jokes about ... skunks so now whenever I'm laughing at whatever you degenerates post on here he asks if I'm reading skunk jokes

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

something I didn't entirely anticipate about being a parent was the frequency of "Homer, are you just holding onto the can?" situations

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

That sound you hear is every single person reading this tweet opening up Wikipedia to research the penguin thing

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Straight-up musical theater 😂 Joey saying "So stupid" and "doesn't make any sense" kills me

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My office artwork situation is hitting on all cylinders rn

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Every endeavor that I'm aware of to make curriculum/syllabi more representative, more diverse, etc. etc.,—very much including what we did and are continuing to do in music theory where I work—has been 100% initiated, led, and executed by faculty

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments