Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I'm gonna have to agree with you, Bologna Sunset 010
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Today I had the very nerdy realization that after carrying a baby in my arms for 13+ months, books feel lighter. 000
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Them: Are you on LinkedIn? Me: Hell yea, I'm like LinkedIn Park 100
Reposted by Miriam PiilonenColin Kennedy @ck3po.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Music theory license plate! 062
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Thinking about the time I asked my brother what his favorite feeling was and he said "deductive reasoning." So cool. 020
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I’m a professor with a ten-month-old, so I either speak in baby talk or highfalutin jargon, there is no in-between. 201
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026yes this. and could also include a little bit of music notation that tells you how to sing the story 020
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026my writing confidence is through the roof now that people are using ChatGPT to write, like, grocery lists and thank you notes. it’s like hell yeah, I thought some thoughts and wrote them down. might have an idea later. 1417
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Saw a bobcat slink past our window last week. It was amazing! Now I can't stop thinking about bobcats. I have bobcat fever. 160
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 12/12/2025is a violinist just the most violin? (this joke works better spoken than read) 120
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Thinking about Babysitter Skipper, the toy that made me feel peak happiness in the 90s. Something about the fantasy of Being Responsible thrilled my 6-year old self. Plus the commercial had a great song. 010
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 27/11/2025if you never come to office hours, you will never complete the office hours side quest, that's just standard game design 0115
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 22/11/2025I wanna go to a party where the DJ spins nothing but nu metal ballads 020
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 19/11/2025ran out of laundry sauce and my spouse and I both bought some, so now we have too much and it's weighing down the shelf, isn't that romantic 010
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025I would like to go to a renaissance fair but the time and place we recreate would be the 2019 conference of the Society for Music Theory in Columbus, OH, that was lit 140
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Me: chatGPT is awful, I prefer Real Human writing with MISTAKES in it to this boring steely grey robot text Also Me: cannot leave a post up with a typo, must text a *correction for any misspelling, still sad about a grammatical error in something I published 2 years ago 031
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 10/11/2025I’m looking forward to delivering the keynote at the 29th Annual Graduate Students in Music (GSIM) Conference at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) on March 6-7, 2026. What an honor to be invited to speak at this esteemed venue with the next generation of music scholars. 150
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 04/11/2025next year's halloween costume / every day of the year 👻 131
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 26/10/2025as a music theorist, I am always down for some "ta-ta-ti-ti-ta" 040
Reposted by Miriam PiilonenDJ BEN COURT @dancing.bsky.social · 25/10/2025seeing a lot of ads for CapitalOne, not enough for Capital Vol. 1 051
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 23/10/2025the ballroom thing is so obnoxious and somehow it's one of the least obnoxious things at the moment 010
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 22/10/2025What could be greater than playing a game of golf with a gator? ~Tennis with a tiger ~Hockey with a hippo ~Soccer with a salamander ~Football with a flamingo ~Croquet with a cricket 220
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Reading existentialist texts with a sleeping baby in my arms just hits different. 120
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 13/08/2025a kid told me I have "long legs and old hair" lol 020
Reposted by Miriam PiilonenDJ BEN COURT @dancing.bsky.social · 01/08/2025It you can't beat em, postpartum 041
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Ben and I have a new EP coming out July 20 (our anniversary) called "Refresh the Page" three tracks exploring themes of anticipation, incubation, and celebration 030
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 29/06/2025yah, i agree. and people who claim theory is "ONLY descriptive" are often over-correcting for perceived prescriptomania. that used to be my tendency anyway 150
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 11/06/2025pop quiz: how many measures of rest have i counted so far, uh oh 080
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025How do you know if someone has studied music theory? Don't worry. They'll tell you. 1171
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Allen Forte implies the existence of Allen Piano 091
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 15/05/2025A group of my students told me I'm "serving cunty nun" and I shed a tear of joy. 050
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 12/05/2025I'm tired of melodic leaps, so I'm gonna start taking steps to avoid them 080
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 10/05/2025for personal reasons i will not be raising any more leading tones 180
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 26/04/2025this music is too repetitive. not only that but it's also repetitive 020
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025current snack tempo is 3 BPM (bites per minute) 051
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025my spouse just informed me that tomorrow is "common time day" (4/4) 080
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025I was on the phone with my dentist's office and they asked, "What is that beautiful music playing in the background, a recording or someone practicing?" and I said, "Oh you're going to die laughing: We're watching Anchorman and it's the jazz flute scene." We did indeed die laughing. 110
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025My article "How Music Theory Went Online" is out with Music Theory Spectrum. Check it out. Free on my Academia page: umass.academia.edu/MiriamPiilonenumass.academia.eduMiriam Piilonen | University of Massachusetts Amherst - Academia.eduMiriam Piilonen, University of Massachusetts Amherst: 52 Followers, 19 Following, 7 Research papers. Research interests: History of Music Theory, History of… 020
