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Micaela Baranello

@micaelab.bsky.social

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musicologist (asst prof, Temple University), Philadelphia’s 36th leading SEPTA Route 2 busfluencer. she/her.

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · Feb 9

TIL that when people refer to the Chicken Man in a Philly context they don’t necessarily mean the guy who got blown up in the Springsteen song. Sometimes they’re referring to a guy in South Philly who is famous for eating 40 rotisserie chickens in 40 days.

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 3h

The Gang Steals Guy Fieri's Tequila

Ian S. Pumpkins @icpetrie.bsky.social · 4h

He drinks a lot eh?

Inquirer headline:
"About 24,000 bottles of Guy Fieri's tequila were stolen on their way to a Montco warehouse"

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 12h

yessss I registered for this workshop at our teaching center so quickly

This roundtable session will make space to consider what it means to be “anti-AI” in a world where generative AI tools are becoming increasingly ubiquitous. Come share your own anti-AI stances and beliefs and discuss how they have played out in the classroom. Together, we will explore some prominent anti-AI strands of thought in popular discourse, journalism, and scholarship that support a position against the use of AI in education, then consider how these views may be marshaled to communicate your stance to students. We will conclude by considering some strategies for communicating your anti-AI stance in a way that leans less on deterrence and more on affirming student voices, embracing imperfection, and foregrounding the importance of struggle to the learning process. All Temple instructors and staff are welcome!

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 1d

music theory professor / music technology professor / music education professor

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Associate Professor / Full Professor / Assistant Professor

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 2d

This makes me want to go to a game and I honestly only have a vague gasp of the rules of baseball

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 2d

I’m looking forward to seeing them here, I’m sure my fellow Philadelphians will be characteristically polite and normal about this

performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · 2d

wonder how this is going

headline:

Elon Musk with a straight face: Tesla Robotaxi will cover half of US population by end of the year
by Fred Lambert
| Jul 23 2025 - 3:09 pm PT

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 2d

Where are the piano majors going to take their naps if you don’t do this?

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 2d

greetings from the music building, where it is "hit a drum over and over and over and over and over" o'clock

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 2d

I finished the draft of my Schoenberg Reacting to the Past roleplaying game!! It requires a gavel, someone to sing Berg op 4, and 12-sided dice. Guaranteed to surprise!

A book manuscript entitle The Emancipation of Dissonance with several 12 sided dice.

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 5d

Franz Lehár

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 6d

I’m tempted to say effects without causes but maybe a better way of putting it is that a lot of it is cheesy as hell (perhaps due to its marching band heritage)

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 6d

the Musikverein archive is out here still embodying the text/act divide: the archive of events is for "music lovers" while the archive of scores (not clear but that's what it is) is for "scholars"

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 6d

I’m going to write a campus murder mystery in which someone is bludgeoned with Harvey Wedeen’s 1996 Great Teacher trophy

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 6d

honestly fair considering they are assessing this guy (with creepily colorized eyes)

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 6d

seems like a solid way of rating music idk

https://tunebat.com/Info/5-Altenberg-Lieder-Op-4-V-Hier-ist-Friede-Arr-For-Piano-Harmonium-Violin-and-Cello-Alban-Berg-Schoenberg-Quartet-Sepp-Grotenhuis-Bob-Zimmerman-Viola-de-Hoog-Janneke-van-der-Meer/1HOB57si99HFERTzC0PQdp

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 6d

This might be mean but........

Much of the music you get handed in wind band is extremely, egregiously bad. Holst is beloved for not being terrible. Would not make the first cut in an orchestra.

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 6d

try playing a band instrument. you will never be free of them.

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 7d

(she scratched me and it got infected; I am now thoroughly medicated)

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 7d

as if this semester wasn't enough

my cat (pictured) gave me a staph infection

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 7d

lol yeah I definitely learned the music term first but I can’t remember the last time I said the other meaning out loud. And that’s probably going to go down even more now!

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 7d

I thought forte as in strength sounded like forte the dynamic and the theorist is like fort. But I do not really know anything!!

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 7d

I realize it’s pronounced differently but that’s why I love the written word

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 7d

I didn’t know about his earthly status either, you might say music theory isn’t my forte

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 8d

you could affiliate with one of the newsletter people

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 8d

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 8d

Who invented email, anyway? I just want to talk