intellectual caliban (Lev)
@levnekov.bsky.social
23. PhD student in musicology at Pitt. BA Music (UIUC, 2025). inquisitor of finite modes, perseverer of the Absolute. editor for @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social. banner from Soul Glo, Gold Chain Punk. Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/levnekov
it's not even OC sob sob
January 24, 2026 at 2:54 AM
it's not even OC sob sob
common Romanticism L
![Roger M. Grant, Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era, 133:
[...] But it was not predominantly because these instruments were difficult to make or carry that they never took hold. Instead, eighteenth-century musicians and theorists believed that the solution was better accomplished otherwise. The meter signatures, notated durations, and characteristics of a piece could still perform the work of specifying tempo, even if they were not as precise and even though many worried that they had become somewhat illegible in this endeavor. As much as the early musical chronometers promised precision in tempo specification, they also threatened to collapse the system of tempo giusto. It was possible, for instance, that the use of these machines would render tempo specification completely unmoored from meter, notation, character, and the sensitivity thereto that musicians had worked to cultivate. Even though Rousseau and Diderot both expressed a need for musical chronometers and extolled the virtues of exact tempo specification, they nevertheless both understood that the eighteenth-century efforts to create such a machine would be futile. The chronometer’s promise of invariance cost too much if it also meant insensitive performance. Rousseau’s remarks on musical chronometers, quoted above, ultimately conclude with dissatisfaction.
"No matter what instrument one might find for regulating the duration of a measure it will be impossible—even if it should have the easiest execution—that it will ever be used in practice. Musicians, a confident set of people, and making, like many others, their own taste the rule of what is good, will never adopt it. They will neglect the chronometer, and will only rely on the true character and the true tempi of airs."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ykfmg4kzubg3rjvzkhqmxk7n/bafkreifcgiwctbsv3t5g4syuqdebn3u2adgrjqbfgowmhryv3iunpgasha@jpeg)
January 22, 2026 at 8:42 PM
common Romanticism L
me when I hear "the human" being used in Theory:
January 19, 2026 at 7:48 PM
me when I hear "the human" being used in Theory:
there is an apt Steve Harvey clip
January 14, 2026 at 7:52 PM
there is an apt Steve Harvey clip
reminds me of @jonbois.bsky.social tbh
January 14, 2026 at 6:33 PM
reminds me of @jonbois.bsky.social tbh
cope and seethe jack
January 14, 2026 at 2:11 AM
cope and seethe jack
January 13, 2026 at 9:34 PM
/r/NFL comments lmao
![[-] = That_Murph 5451 points 1 day ago*
The fledgling eagle begins developing that toxic attitude that the adult eagle is known for. Soon he will develop alcoholism and leave the nest to find a mate that he will
give him the mutually abusive relationship that will lead to little eaglets. The life cycle of an eagles fan.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ykfmg4kzubg3rjvzkhqmxk7n/bafkreid3gstwkq2a4aybbhceq62fy3w5yp3ef6em2mz6vdoyelf52u5txa@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 7:49 PM
/r/NFL comments lmao
January 13, 2026 at 12:42 PM
she's blue for an amazing reason
January 6, 2026 at 7:46 PM
she's blue for an amazing reason
how it's going
January 6, 2026 at 4:49 AM
how it's going
like bruh the fuck??
January 2, 2026 at 4:10 AM
like bruh the fuck??
even more pepega
December 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
even more pepega
![On February 12th, another meeting was organized, this time by AMS President Julie Cumming, that included Siovahn and AMS Treasurer Sam Dorf along with both Jake Johnson and the Associate Editor of the Journal, Jennifer Walker. Prior to the meeting, a document written by Siovahn titled
"Strategy Memo: The Future of the Journal of the American Musicological Society" was distributed at Julie's request. That strategy memo is attached to this letter. It details a number of challenging realities facing the Journal, including readership and subscription declines and rising production costs. In short, the Journal is shown to be a loss leader, costing more than it brings in-a situation not uncommon for scholarly journals, which are routinely subsidized by scholarly societies. The Strategy Memo concludes with a startling proposition: "If the Society is unable to promote and target JAMS more effectively, then its best option is to sell or discontinue the journal as soon as possible, before market conditions result in an unplanned (i.e., catastrophic) failure." Following on the heels of the [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ykfmg4kzubg3rjvzkhqmxk7n/bafkreib6t7dvdf23udgp4lbly4vbfkmrnwbdvkomnwhbctrwjweqlu5cgm@jpeg)
is this a bad idea
December 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
is this a bad idea
as an alumnus: you cannot be fucking kidding me
![HS opinion article:
"There's a solution: start getting to school earlier to have a more productive start to your day. I'm not saying get to school at 6:30 a.m. with the early bird classes.
Instead, get to school around 7:30 a.m. in order to have time to finish any extra homework and plan out your day, as well as to allow yourself to have a slow morning to get ready while at school instead of rushing to put yourself together.
Time spent sleeping in the morning can instead be time spent getting work done.
Whether you're a morning person or not, it is important to make the most of your time. Many times a week, l used to stay up [...]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ykfmg4kzubg3rjvzkhqmxk7n/bafkreibs3rg6bilacumskjyi5z7oc3rnzbitbefxpadurolvnhigxzjuf4@jpeg)
November 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
as an alumnus: you cannot be fucking kidding me
jumpscare: you know Pachelbel? that Pachelbel? apparently his son was a slaver (fat L)
![David Hunter, “Music and the Use of the Profits of the Anglo-American Slave Economy (ca. 1610–c. 1810),” in The Oxford Handbook of Economic Ethnomusicology:
“The Support of Professional and Amateur Musicians by Slavery's Profits in North America and the Caribbean
The second way in which slavery's profits were put to use was by professional and amateur musicians who owned slaves or who were hired to teach music to slave owners or their children or to other participants in the slave economy. We know very little about the domestic lives of professional musicians in the European tradition prior to the Revolution in the North American colonies. Did they own slaves? The organist Charles (Carl) T.
Pachelbel (1690-1750) certainly did. The younger son of Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706), Charles settled in Boston before 1734, in which year he went to Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode Island, to assemble the organ that had been donated to the church by a recent res-ident, the philosopher, divine, and would-be college administrator George Berkeley (1685-1753) (Perry 2008). In 1736 Pachelbel moved to Charleston, South Carolina, becoming organist of St. Peter's Church in 1740. He was the teacher of Peter Pelham (1721-
1805), who was the church organist in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1755-1802, and whose manuscript keyboard tutor includes works by Handel (Butler 2005). An inventory of Pachelbel's belongings taken after his death reveals that his two most valuable possessions were slaves, Peg and Ned, valued at £230 and £100 respectively (Redway 1952). In this, he was typical of men who considered themselves gentlemen, a slave or slaves being the cheap colonial substitution for servants hired for the same purposes in Britain. By way of comparison, the inventory says Pachelbel's small spinet was worth £10 and his clavichord £4. In addition to his salary of £40 per annum Pachelbel had supported himself […]”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ykfmg4kzubg3rjvzkhqmxk7n/bafkreihiuprp4eiyy6rc5i2mvvrto6aroo53wolxithojylqfoayv62ufe@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
jumpscare: you know Pachelbel? that Pachelbel? apparently his son was a slaver (fat L)
i promise i'm cooking
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
i promise i'm cooking
