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Erika Supria H
@drcanonic.bsky.social
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(Music) Historian, listening & thinking & listening some more. Indo-German-Canadian in America. Posting in a personal capacity.
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teaching circulating temperaments today and
#theyrelearning
#butwhat
A two-panel meme with the top showing someone holding two papers; the one on the left reads C major, the one on the right reads F-sharp major. The caption reads "Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture." The bottom panel shows a woman in an office smiling bemusedly and saying "They're the same picture"
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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The Feminist Killjoy at the AMS session, no less. 🫣
screenshot of info on lecture "A Feminist Killjoy at the AMS (CWG = Committee on Women & Gender) lecture. It lists the time as Thursday Nov. 6 from 9–10:30 AM. Location is "Remote Session." Chair: Jane Hatter, Discussant Suzanne Cusick and Rena Roussin; Presenter Laurie Stras.
November 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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gawd I love Martha Stewart
a screenshot of a NY Times profile on Martha Stewart that reads "“I was the original [expletive] tradwife,” she said in a phone interview last week, referring to current social media influencers like Nara Smith or Hannah Neeleman of Ballerina Farm. “And I was just as pretty as those girls, and more organized.”
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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I was rooting for the Jays, but stay with me here: two Japanese players and a Venezuelan just won the World Series, and it's some of the greatest baseball ever. Eat your heart out, you-know-who, and have fun spinning this one, Fox News.
a photo of Yamamoto and Ohtani, two of the Dodgers' star players, both born in Japan
November 2, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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I'm grateful to the govt officials who quietly keep our food safe & air clean & taxes collected, but whenever I teach the St. Matthew Passion I realize that of all the govt officials in all the world I'm most grateful to Picander—18th-c postal employee, later Liquor Tax Collector & Wine Inspector
manuscript title page of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, in Latin that translates roughly as "Passion of Our Lord J[esus] C[hrist] according to the Evangelist Matthew. Poetry by Mr. Henrici, aka Picander, Music by J. S. Bach"
October 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Low-income people in our communities won't be getting food stamps this month. What a nightmare. Long Island Cares helps you identify the closest drop-off locations for food donations, or you can donate online if you are in a position to do so. www.licares.org/how-to-help/... 1/
a screenshot from the website linked in my original post for "Long Island Cares" showing a page for "Our Locations" and an accessibility link at the bottom left.
October 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Their land brought forth frogs, their land brought forth frogs, YAY! even in their king's chambers www.youtube.com/watch?v=43A3...
A collage with a photo showing an inflatable frog staring at a bunch of ICE officers in Portland, who are in camo, masked and armed to the teeth, and an excerpt from the plagues section of Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt, showing a bouncy bassline and then the entry of the alto voice singing "Their land brought forth frogs, their land brought forth frogs, yea"
October 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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here's a CFP that popped up in my socials that looks great, for all you music & minimalism folks—conference next spring at UM-College Park www.minimalismsociety.net/umd2026
The year 2026 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach, and Catherine Christer Hennix’s The Electric Harpsichord, all epochal works that have helped define minimalism in the world of experimental music and the popular imagination. It is also the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Minimalist Music. In this year of landmark anniversaries, the Tenth International Conference on Music and Minimalism will focus on celebrating and interrogating minimalist and postminimalist music in its many forms, examining its impact across the arts and global culture. The Tenth International Conference on Music and Minimalism will take place May 7–10, 2026, hosted by the University of Maryland’s School of Music in College Park, MD, right outside Washington, DC. Concerts will include the music of Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Julius Eastman, Meredith Monk, John Adams, and composer and organist Kali Malone.
October 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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If I'm gonna assign "short but necessary" anythings then...
#theyrelearning
#butwhat
a slide headed "Next class: Bach asks to speak to the manager" with a portrait of Bach and a speech bubble that reads "...and ANOTHER thing" alongside a screenshot of his famously complainy "short but necessary memorandum on a well-appointed church music"
October 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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In Canada, yesterday was Truth and Reconciliation Day: an occasion to commit to taking steps on the path toward fully acknowledging and addressing injustices to Indigenous peoples and moving towards reconciliation. For some these steps might be on a Mi’kmaw SoundWalk in Halifax (see image below) 1/
poster reading Mi'kmaw Soundwalk: A self-guided SoundWalk in downtown Halifax: experience Kjipuktuk from a Mi'kmaw perspective with storyteller and singer Graham Marshall and singer Walter Denny, with a photo of Denny holding a drum, and at the bottom a button that invites users to download the app with a QR code to the right, and a tab that says DACT Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission
October 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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oh no
#TheyreLearning
#ButWhat
A lecture slide that reads: Lecture 11: Dance Like Everybody's Watching with an image showing a social dance at the French Baroque court and a pink ornamental divider on the right a screenshot of a lecture slide with a snippet of a Sarabande from one of the Bach cello suites with the heading Next class: Compose like Nobody's Dancing (today's lecture is "Dance like Everybody's Watching"
September 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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...and Tagore with his students, what is reflection if not slowing down to listen better, think better, live better 8/8
black and white photo of an older man with white hair and beard in a dark robe holding a book on a veranda with men and women and women in South Asian attire gathered around him listening and smiling
September 29, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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marching in front of the Newberry Library, shamelessly hospitable to people who really love genealogical research and Renaissance partbooks & like there's a park across the street that people just hang out in and the El is super scary b/c like everyone takes it www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/i...
masked and armed men marching in camo with badges that say "Border Patrol" and "Police" in front of a sunny Chicago building that is recognizable as the Newberry Library
September 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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old boys gonna old boy. choose not to be an old boy. be the gadfly that bites the old boys, because the examined life is worth living.
a cartoon of a fly with a thought bubble that reads "I feel a desperate need to be irritating, and perhaps, to reform society."
September 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Vivaldi: just a classic fade pls
Bach: business in the right hand, party in the left
a snippet from Vivaldi Opus 3 no. 9 movement 3 showing a fairly pedestrian approach with some suspension action moving to a cadence with repeated sixteenth notes in all voices. I have added BASIC BEST at the top of the score. A snippet of Bach's transcription of the concerto, BWV 972, with a groovy little bassline with repeated sixteenth notes in the right hand, super hard to play those things together. I've added "I'D LIKE A WORD J.S." to the screenshot.
September 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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The scavenger hunt is such a good way to capture something of the fun of it! Also as the owner of Cocomutt, a beloved lab mix who ate everything ("there is nothing food or not food but eating makes it so") I sort of love the idea of researchers at whatever stage being highly effective scroungers.
a brown lab mix outside on the grass, sitting hunched over, staring at an empty metal food bowl
September 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Look what just dropped in Music Theory Spectrum! [my partner and hero to all dogs large, mid-sized, and tiny] August works on Marx and Weber, just not *that* Marx or *that* Weber, but hear me out NO LESS CONSEQUENTIAL 🤓 (accessible under Advance articles here: academic.oup.com/mts ). Very proud!
A screenshot from the Music Theory Spectrum website showing the title and abstract of the article, as follows: “It is Beethoven who leads the Reigen”: A. B. Marx and the Dance of Jewish-German Assimilation August Sheehy Abstract: Throughout his career as a music critic and theorist, Adolf Bernhard Marx—the “founding father of Formenlehre”—was idiosyncratically fond of the German term Reigen. This article examines Marx’s use of the term from three perspectives. It seeks, first, to determine the musical parameters that elicited the appellation; second, to place the word within early and mid-nineteenth-century German discourses and culture; and third, to relate Marx’s use of the term to his own fluctuating sociopolitical status as a Jewish-German assimilationist in nineteenth-century Berlin. Ultimately, Marx’s usage provides a specific and suggestive case study in the relation between the Formenlehre tradition and the historical, political, and cultural conditions that shaped its production and reception.
September 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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also, I am sorry to say I trotted out, for the flimsiest of reasons, my dongle bear/D'Anglebert slide
a slide headed "How to pronounce," with an engraved portrait of the French composer "D'Anglebert" in three-quarter profile and a magnificent wig on one side, and on the other, a large black bear with some vegetation in its mouth, and a Mac dongle, captioned "Dongle Bear"
September 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Thursday began with us all up in our heads and ended with viscera, just total morbid fascination in the bowels of the Staller Center, about how something as gruesome as horsehair bows gripping sheepgut strings could create such beautiful sounds
a whiteboard on a cinderblock wall that's been painted black, with a lot of stuff written on it, including "vergleichende Wissenschaft," Thomas Nagel, metropole, colony, decolonialize, colonialism, deimperial, auricular, Kenner, LIebhaber, to know, to love, connoisseur, amateur, telos, teleological, res, reify, discourse, discursive framing, heuristic, positionality, ontology, epistomology, music, "ethnomusic," politics of citation, marked category, unmarked category, Kofi Agawu, "The Invention of African "Rhythm"" Carolyn Abbate, drastic, gnostic, R. Murray Schafer
September 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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it's ground bass day for the non-majors and they are ALL GOING TO LOVE THE BAROQUE AFTER THIS
Bart SImpson standing at a chalkboard in a classroom writing out the bass line for the Pachelbel canon on the board over and over again
September 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Grateful every day to my union brothers & sisters for strength, solidarity & clarity. Proud of our grad student union for their courage in fighting for their own rights as workers and a better community for all. Happy Labor Day to everyone except The Man & anyone who aspires to be The Man! 1/
Poster (union printed) by Ricardo Morales source: https://www.rlmartstudio.com/product/eight-hours-2/ Image shows a lino print-style poster divided into three panels. The first is captioned "8 hours for work" and shows a woman at a loom; the second is captioned "8 hours for rest" and shows feet sticking out of a bed and a cityscape at night; the third shows a couple in a rowboat, one reading a newspaper that reads "union advocate" and the captions says "8 hours for what we will."
September 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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We Went to the Crime-Ridden Hellhole That is NYC & Lived to Tell the Tale, Boy Sure Glad Our Great Leader Is Sending In the Nat'l Guard To Make Us All Safe & Make America Great (Again) That is a Very Smart Use of Taxpayer Money
A view of a large grassy field with a chain link fence around it in Central Park, looking south on a sunny day, with lots of people picnicking and snoozing and walking along in an unhurried way. The only visible crime is the cluster matchstick skyscrapers that poke up grotesquely behind the trees photo of a woman in glasses smiling at a black and caramel hound dog in the late afternoon sun, sitting on the grass with trees behind. the scene is calm and peaceful.
August 31, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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This article is from Nature, but the peer review crisis is arguably most acute in the Humanities, where disciplines and subdisciplines are much smaller, manuscripts are longer, and the pool of reviewers is miniscule and exhausted. The scale is smaller, in other words, but the pace is even slower. 1/
a headline from 06 August 2025 from Nature, for a piece by David Adam with the title "The Peer-Review Crisis: How to fix an overloaded system"
August 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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I'm not sure now, but I have some folks I can ask. There's a wonderful glimpse into the Pro Musica world in the Taruskin episode of Sound Expertise (Taruskin nearly got sucked in b/c in his words, it was the one group that paid its members a living wage") soundexpertise.org/wp-content/u...
screenshot of a transcript from a podcast episode with host Will Robin and guest Richard Taruskin, reading " And then I discovered the viola da gamba and became fascinated with performing early music. And I came within a hair's breadth of making that my career because the New York Pro Musica -- I don't know if you remember what that was, but it... Will Robin 15:31 I'm aware of it. Yeah. Richard Taruskin 15:33 Well, that folded by the time you were, maybe by the time you were born, now that I think... But it was the one early music ensemble that could pay its members a living wage. It was the one real professional gig in early music in the 1950s. And they announced an opening for a string player. They didn't specify the instrument. So both viol players and lutenists applied and I auditioned, and they let it be known that it was down to the top viol player and the top lutenists, that was me and one of my best friends. And they kept us waiting a month while they made up their mind. And then they took her and I was dashed, and I went back to graduate school. I said, All right, I'm not going to be an early music player for a living. But then I was given the Columbia collegium musicum to run. That opened up whole new vistas for me, and I became a conductor by the seat of my pants. So that was a big deal for me, performing early music. And if I had been given the Pro Musica job, I would have taken it."
August 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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me too—maybe you're the one to do it! it was common knowledge when he was alive, and in the immediate aftermath of his death, but that's been erased as he recedes into a name on an award (but there's a good 2006 article by Kirsten Yri) www.jstor.org/stable/25046...
screenshot of the bibliographic info for an article by Kirsten Yri in American Music 24 (2006) pages 421-444 entitled "Noah Greenberg and the New York Pro Musica: Medievalism and the Cultural Front"
August 23, 2025 at 12:33 AM