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The world-renowned music school, Juilliard, is facing allegations that two of its professors engaged in sexual misconduct against aspiring and enrolled students at the school. n.pr/3j2UAXr
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Please read! This article was years in the making. I want to thank @Sammy_Sussman and the brave women who spoke out. @JuilliardSchool please listen and take action. van-magazine.com/mag/juillia…
ugh my slutty Holdrian comma costume didn't arrive on time so now I have to be a slutty syntonic comma like everyone else
Cbat challenge: have sex to a playlist that includes at least one composition from the next new music concert you attend.
Some people say that all of Mozart’s music is archaic, obsolete, and thoroughly unrelatable to younger audiences and yeah that would probably be true if he hadn’t composed the original ass-eating anthem
My new piece is called “Dialogues” because it’s kinda like the instruments are talking to each other and also because of the unspoken expectation that new music titles should conform to the performative pseudo-intellectual dialect that the White upper class speaks and writes in
Introducing the Planet Earth Prize: we award certificates of achievement to winners in 1500 musical categories 6 times each year. Venmo me the $20 entry fee to qualify as one of the finalists for Best Musician On Planet Earth.
If you polled every classical musician in the US, who would be considered the greatest rapper of all time?:
43%Kendrick Lamar
9%Daveed Diggs
14%“This Is America”
34%Sprechstimme is kinda rap
257 votes • Final results Composerbot retweeted
Experimental musicians after playing whale noises for in the woods for 70 hours straight: yeah I’m really into building radical systems of community and finding the intersection of social and evironmental justice with immersive sonic art and exploring the boundaries of this form
Music is a binary and all things are definitively either “music” or “not music”.
-Birds chirping: not music
-Rap: music
-20,001 Hz sine wave: not music
-Slam poetry: music
-Bach chorale: not music
-Microwave beeping: music
-Pattern of tension/resolution within a tweet: not music
Which ethnomusicologist was the most impactful in their attempts to preserve and categorize Western European musical traditions?
35%Heinrich Schenker
38%Johann Fux
12%Hugo Riemann
15%Allen Forte
26 votes • Final results
Electroacoustic music is fun: I particularly appreciate when the timbral palette is derived from household sounds like a microwave, door squeak, or oscillating fan.
It's lovely to see so many of Leroy Anderson's protégés thriving!
Viola parts should just be written in treble clef, but we should still make every first-year music student learn alto clef as a way to better prepare them for all the arbitrary bullshit they will have to constantly wade through.