Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 4hOf all the threats to life on Earth, the danger that music majors won’t know about L’homme armé masses surely ranks among the highest 140
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 6hrather unfortunately one of the authors of this report has already told me where I stand on this 140
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 6hIt’s one of the most ridiculous methodological holes, too. You don’t know what the original program was so how can you analyze how it changed!!! 180
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Or even earlier: www.jstor.org/stable/3519832jstor.orgClient Challenge 020
Reposted by Micaela BaranelloSarah Hennies @sarahhennies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Botstein out fully at Bard: “Professor Botstein informed Bard earlier today that he is resigning immediately from all Bard-affiliated positions, including his professorship and roles with The Orchestra Now and other music programs.” 23811
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026first time I spent a week of my medieval music unit running a large roleplaying game and then the highest average grade on the medieval exam of any section I've taught! (it was basically the same exam format as previous iterations.) 081
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I’ve started introducing assignments by explaining exactly what the learning goals are (including “will help you ace the test” for lower-division classes) because I thought it was obvious but it really is not 180
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026when you're composing for a text in German but kind of wish you were working in French 030
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Next semester, lose touch with reality and experience a psychic break in MUST 8709: History of Opera 2 that’ll fill the seats 020
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026(The topic under discussion was the limitations of the work-concept) 130
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“This class has shattered my sense of truth” -student in my opera seminar I want to use this to advertise future course offerings 2191
Reposted by Micaela BaranelloThe Onion @theonion.com · 27/12/2025Are Tests Biased Against Students Who Don't Give A Shit 341421205
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026As usual I’m following the Eagles game by listening for when everyone else on my block starts yellling 240
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Thanks, that’s informative! The witches didn’t read well at all from upstairs IMO—whole thing is dark and low contrast. 110
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Oof. Where were you sitting? Is it any better up close, if you were? I’m just wondering what other people saw that I (and my friend) absolutely didn’t. 100
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I’m reading some more reviews and am SO perplexed. I was sitting in the balcony and wonder if the production didn’t suit the large space and there was more to see up close? 000
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I once had a TA who was a tubist, he carried around a gallon milk jug full of water and his method to make students pay attention was to stare at them very intensely. This was his main pedagogical skill when teaching medieval music. He’s now in a Marine band. 020
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“Being trapped inside a tuba for two hours” is an instant classic and I say this as someone who works with tubas and tubists on a regular basis, thank you @bilgeebiri.bsky.social 1214
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I love it when a critic takes care with their words 081
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Also I’m going to start a band called Banquo’s Ghost 130
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026You might say “Macbeth was revised after Luisa Miller was composed” but I say that revision is early Verdi wearing a hat and the hat is mostly annoying little ballets 180
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I do think the director has been good elsewhere and something went very wrong here, maybe starting when she had to work with another’s Konzept 150
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Bafflingly terrible production. Some scenes don’t appear to have been rehearsed We can and should do better than this!!!!! 140
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Lise miscast, production making me long for the genius of Bartlett Sher, score reminding me to reinstate my rule of not fucking with Verdi operas composed before Luisa Miller 290
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026this Met Macbeth is really bad???? seriously what are we doing here??? 5110
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Same. I also heard tell of some waaaaay more than $120/night escapades when the SEC marching band budget was involved 020
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026(That limit was at my previous job so a few years ago but I somehow doubt it’s gone up) 010
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is kind and you’re being a good colleague but you should not have to do this!! I have some funding but I look at the $120/night hotel limit and think “is the provost really staying within that budget when *they* have to go to New Orleans?” 220
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Why are the floor tiles at 30th St Station labelled like for a large train-based variant of Battleship (sorry for the bad photo, Amtrak line situation) Cc @donoteat.bsky.social 120
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026How else are you going to sell $200 PDFs about managing a department in a time of turmoil I know how much they cost because a previous chair who always said we have no money for research travel kept buying them 160
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I am very grateful Temple let me make my own documents and just had me upload them into a folder structure 010
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Is it Watermark? My previous job had that set up so it would erase any articles without an impact factor entered and no musicology journals have those so I straight up made them up so the report wouldn’t delete stuff and no one noticed or cared 110
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026static.klipy.comJ.K. Simmons: What Did We Learn, Palmer?ALT: J.K. Simmons: What Did We Learn, Palmer? 140
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This sounds like a larger scale version of that free piano scam email every music prof has gotten 0150
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I wish I could wear men's sizes because tweed is rarer for women! but I'm not tall enough and they're really tricky to alter 010
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026have to note that blazers are a VERY practical thing to thrift: easy to try on, plentiful stock from the corporate people who are seemingly always donating things, less likely to show wear than shirts or pants, way to save a lot of money because they are expensive 130
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026did not realize tweedy blazer lady would show up so big 110
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026unfortunately the Instagram algorithm discovered my fashion weakness and gave me this photo, I am now bankrupt 140
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026That’s the one I worked on! I love it but haven’t had the opportunity to teach with it. 020
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Good point. I know this series was in the planning for absolute eons but when it arrived it wasn’t suited for where curricula are going. 030
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The only one I’ve actually taught with is the 20th c and I also liked it a lot. I wish there was a way to use the series in a modular way, there are lots of good chapters for a non-chron course but I can’t ask students to buy all the books 110
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026if the book is what I think it is, I worked on the seventeenth-century volume in the series and yeah, to say the least they don't go for the obvious options 130
Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026www.google.com/books/editio...google.comDas lied und seine geschichte 100