Music theory prof (music media, Beach, chromaticism, 🎮🎸). Displaced midwesterner. PhD @harvardmus prev @tuftsuniversity. Arsenal fan, homebrewer, swimmer
this is just to say
i have solmized
the hexachords
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for matins
forgive me
they were delicious,
so molle
and so durum
The Rose Bowl: Our game is rooted in tradition, prestige, and history.
Pop-Tart Bowl: Watch this pastry take its clothes off. It yearns to be consumed.
Why don’t college students read books? Maybe it’s because their universities are celebrating AI-generated course materials instead of actual books by actual people that might actually be worth reading.
🚨Buckle up & be sure you're hydrated: today starts a stretch of 56 consecutive days w/at least 1 college football or NFL game every single freakin day 😍
In no small part because I’m often doing family stuff on the weekends AND am exactly the kind of sicko who will watch Miami [original one] against Kent State on a Tuesday night
Admins worry about how faculty do/don’t contribute to student retention. A year ago I lent Daniel Chua’s “Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning” to a student & he promptly dropped out. Stick that in your stupid advising CRM and smoke it
Never got my book back, either…
Music department email, Week 1: “The Art History department would like to remind us all that the copier on the first floor belongs to THEM. Please use the music copier in 309”
Week 2: “The 3rd floor copier is broken, please use the Art history copier until further notice.”