Tyler Osborne

Am I watching congress file in for the speech tonight or a livestream of the post-church Golden Corral line…?

YouTube video by Miguel Negrón Oyarzo Arseny Avraamov - Symphony Of Factory Sirens (Public Event, Baku 1922)

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Hooooly shit…industrial protoambient nightmare music from 1922(!!!) that hits the feels way too hard.

Checks out.

Juneau Dasher and Dancer…

Major Sunday conundrum: do I mow my lawn one more time before winter truly sets in?

Clara’s setting is absolutely lovely! Also, check out Johanna Kinkel’s Lorelei if you don’t already know it— another fantastic piece

A student in my art song by women composers class told me today “I thought art song was lame when the course started, but now I think it’s so cool.”
My work here is done.

Survived the SMT/AMS double feature with two completely different projects. Totally blown away and inspired by y’all’s kindness and excellent ideas!!

A painting of Fanny Mendelssohn by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim. She has brown eyes and hair in ringlets to her shoulders. She is wearing a pearl-drop choker, and a black shawl with white lace collar.

Composer & pianist Fanny Mendelsssohn was born #OTD in 1805 - surely one of the most extraordinary composers to have published so little in her own lifetime. Thank goodness her scores are being given a new lease of life now - here's her phenomenal Piano Trio: open.spotify.com/track/2H3BWk...

Update: the real Dmitri has entered the chat.

Bad AI or a joke…? Regardless, yer a composer, Dmitri…

I feel like that idea could be golden…

For a music theorist, coming across a Gen Alpha playlist on Spotify is one of the most surreal and perplexing musical compilations I could have imagined.

Today, I reminded my students of the significance of February 14th: on this day 112 years ago, Arizona was declared a state. Make sure to tell your loved ones “happy Arizona day.”

This is totally on me, but this anti-tenure action happening in my own state government right now was NOT on my radar. I hear that phone messages are having an effect and the bill was not voted on as planned today. I just called to dictate a message to the House Education Committee—no on HB 228.

Received revision suggestions for a book chapter a couple months after submission. Now attempting to remember what the hell I wrote about.

Nothing makes your stomach drop quite like seeing that the IMSLP site is down.

Alanis Morissette - My Humps Alanis Morissette - My Humps

How have I missed that this gem not only exists, but has for SIXTEEN YEARS?!

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Not going to lie, the top comment had me dying.

Current research has led me to discussing 18th-century automatons and recent Russian anti-government EDM in the same sentence. Where the hell is this going?

Just watched Midsommar and couldn’t help but notice the underlying message of “don’t show up to someone’s party and be a jerk.”

Well, Covid, it took you almost four years, but you finally found me. Happily accepting all documentary and horror film recommendations while I’m in my quarantine cocoon.

Homework Question: “how would you fix the misspelled chord in this example?”
Best student response: “by not pigeonholing yourself with silly little chromaticisms.”
Not the answer I was looking for, but thanks for the laugh.

Teaching lesson learned today: no matter how badly the white board needs cleaning, don’t use board cleaner on it right before a class unless you’re in for an adventure.

According to this years’ Spotify Wrap-Up I’m a dark and moody “musical vampire.” I also pretty much use Spotify exclusively for the music that I research…what does this say about my research? Come to my talks if you want to get angsty, I guess.

Just had a student email me to ask if they should take a piano part down an octave for an aural skills assessment to avoid voice crossing. I’m raising some thoughtful counterpointers after all!

I was pretty sure that no composer would throw me for a loop with sonata form better than Hensel did. Emilie Mayer is quickly proving me wrong.

Multitasking today has been college football and analyzing some pretty wild 19th-c. sonatas. Looking for some TDs and ESCs.

How is it 2023 and we still have publishers who don’t put measure numbers in their scores?

Fanny Mendelssohn - Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 11 (published 1850)Performed by the Abegg TrioMovement One: Allegro molto vivace - 0:00Movement Two: Andante e... Fanny Mendelssohn - Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 11

It’s Fanny Hensel’s birthday today. Here’s one of her many gifts to us, which happens to be my favorite use of cyclic form ever.

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