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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 4h

No, I don't know him! And also admittedly don't know a lot of later Scriabin well enough to be trashing it.

Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 4h

In grad school this performance of Prometheus was HOTLY anticipated and was, in fact, quite a fun spectacle ... but the concert paired it with Ein Heldenleben and, as a piece of music, Prometheus could not help but suffer when juxtaposed against an actually competently-written large-scale tone poem

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 4h

this feels like a comment I would want to get mad about b/c I love Scriabin but I guess I admit that I mostly love him up until about the Fourth Sonata and then once the sparks really start shooting out of his head his pieces sound kinda samey to me

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 4h

I promise to listen to the Aubrey and Andrew podcast when the first episode drops

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 4h

I'm normally not a big Britten guy but looking forward to finding out if I feel differently in an opera situation

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 4h

I don't know for sure, but I think it might be bad in a way only biological humans can achieve!

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 4h

I will, it's next up in my lineup of 20th-century operas I need to belatedly get to know (currently up is Peter Grimes)

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 5h

It's just much, much more fun than music like this normally is (and I like it when it's not fun, too, but this is very enjoyable)

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 5h

LRT not only is this piece nuts in the aggregate, it is nuts in every particular. What kind of music is this? Trick question, it's like 12 kinds of music in one piece

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Karol Szymanowski - Mythes, Op. 30 (1921)

YouTube video by Der Morgen

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 10h

this is the most what's up anything has ever been youtu.be/Uvre-WnH9jw?...

three bars from Karol Szymanowski's Mythes for violin and piano, Op. 30 (1921)

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 5h

your one-stop source for kid-appropriate wind instruments of all kinds and also stuffed mosquitos

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 5h

The last straw for me was definitely this thing: 𝔨 (it's a k)

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 5h

(I freaked out my colleagues who were also taking the exam and who understandably assumed that I had finished the whole thing in like a third of the allotted time)

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 5h

It's just gratuitous—I love reading and translating German but Fraktur adds a whole additional layer of annoyance

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 6h

Before year 1 of my PhD, I decided to sit for the German translation exam even though I hadn't really reviewed my German—could always try again next year. I translated the first passage, turned the page, and then walked straight out of the exam room upon seeing that the second passage was in Fraktur

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 6h

Yes I personally have never eaten it but I did wonder about that as well

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 6h

Was solfege deemed too fancy for this purpose? Or not fancy enough?

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 6h

Is writing a tuneless melody that ends on scale-degree 4 with partial correspondence between the lyrics and the letter names of the pitches a good way to develop some kind of music notation literacy?

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 6h

Do children know what gabagool is?

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 6h

I have so many questions for Mr. Brown

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 6h

NO DOUBT you mean songflute??

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 6h

I'm calling it, this is the worst song I've ever heard

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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 9h

Editor’s note: see you back here tomorrow for page 1

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

great minds 😂 (or maybe this joke is incredibly obvious to sickos of a certain persuasion)

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Only once the Guardians won their series did you have any idea whether you’d been having fun watching it 😂

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Living in the Moment | David Mitchell's Soapbox

YouTube video by David Mitchell's Soapbox

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I didn’t get to watch any of their White Sox series but it seems like it turned out pretty fun!

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

As I've said many times now, the one good thing that can come out of the awful times we live in (baseball department) is that baseball fans far beyond Northern California come to realize and accept, however belatedly, the loathsomeness of the Dodgers.

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

At this point I'm not sure I can condone rooting for the Dodgers even if you have been a Dodger fan since birth. You would need to have a multigenerational Dodger fan family pedigree going back to the 19th century. And even *then* I'm judging you a little bit.

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Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Academic friends: I am looking for texts (from any field or discipline) that address play/playfulness as either an analytical tool or a form of feminist praxis. I know this comes up in Haraway’s work but I’m wondering what else is out there. Thank you in advance for any guidance!

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh god yes, me too, I have decades of evidence for this

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This reminds me very specifically of the notation Dan Harrison came up with for his book about 20th-century tonality

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This will be the kicker for the Twilight Zone episode they make about me

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Tfw you are settling in for your jail vacation (which you somehow perfectly lined up to start on the first day of your sabbatical) and you realize that the mandatory sentence specifically does not include any paper for the typewriter

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One of my faves that always seemed underappreciated

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You really have to understand this as an attempt to freeze the field at where it was in a handful of departments in the 1970s

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Before Danuta's talk, I thought I understood the difference between schema and topic for 18th-century music. Like, of course? What do they even have to do with each other? Well, this showed me how naive I had been.

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Exactly my reaction as I sat there hearing the conference talk a couple years ago

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

!!! Irresistible description, I'll check it out

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

(Notwithstanding the incredibly jaded conversation that @andrewsehmann.com and @aubreypiano.bsky.social had on here the other day in which they appeared to agree that Brahms and Mahler had written a single good symphony between the two of them [Brahms 3] 😂)

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This tweet was my oblique way of admitting that, due to an administrative error that has since been corrected, I went 45+ years without ever listening to Mahler 2 and I am pleased to inform you that it is good

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Are you disrespecting the Music of the Spheres???

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If that's in order to smuggle in dissertations that are like exclusively mathematical music w/ theorems and proofs, then it very much supports my view that it's just any topic where Allen Forte would have permitted you to get a job

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thank you, I knew there had to be a way to make the Giants a playoff team

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