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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 · 4h

insane lifespan. born around the invention of the car, lived to see Diff'rent Strokes

(OK I don't know if Oskar Kokoschka ever watched Diff'rent Strokes but the point is that he could have)

born March 1, 1886
died February 22, 1980

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 10h

I once had a clarinet MM student with the last name Reed, not a stage name, though

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 1d

he’s got some notes (in multiple senses)

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 1d

nah, the real classical music move is to call it String Quartet No 2 and drop something in a letter to keep the musicologists busy a century later

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

“It’s Raining Men” – The Weather Girls
“Male Precipitation Fantasy in C Major for Female Duo of Solitary Chart Triumph”

If Pop Songs Had Classical Music Titles

“Friday” – Rebecca Black “Temporal Awareness Cantata in G Major for Adolescent Voice and Auto-Tuned Choir (‘Hebdomadal Celebration’)” “Mambo No. 5...

buff.ly

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 2d

Worked for me

Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 2d

There are so many people whose mental health would be helped immensely by living in Philadelphia

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 2d

Season of only different versions of Bruckner 4

They’re calling it The Four Season

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 3d

Bruckner critical edition project

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 3d

I’m from upstate! Options include
-The Super 8
-The Comfort Inn
-The one run by Cornell hotel management students
-The Imperial Motel (“Color TVs!”)
-The Econo Lodge

https://www.curbed.com/article/upstate-hotels-the-inn-crowd-excerpt.html

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 3d

These suburbs have very cute walkable downtowns but there’s seemingly no concept that you’d ever walk there from your house

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 3d

I was in a wealthy Main Line suburb earlier today and in the residential neighborhood there was no sidewalk or even shoulder, walking was quite dangerous

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 4d

I did an absolutely flawless parallel parking job on my block and no one was watching 😭

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 4d

Never thought I’d be glad to have lived through a mumps outbreak in Arkansas but my MMR vaccine is up to date and here we are

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 5d

also to get paid less to do lots more work

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 5d

"free from the strictures of tenure"

what??

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 5d

Me on the subway to South Philly an hour ago

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5d

We simply don’t need this much Philadelphia sports happening at the same time

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 6d

I’m not on the search committee but if you have questions I can refer you appropriately

Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 6d

Theorists! My department is hiring (NTT but continuing and good pay): jobs.chronicle.com/job/37895447...

Assistant/Associate Professor Non-Tenure Track Appointment in Music Studies-Theory - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania job with Temple University Boyer College of Music and Dance | 37895447

Teach a variety of undergraduate & graduate courses in Music Theory. Advise and mentor graduate students. Contribute to departmental &college service.

jobs.chronicle.com

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 6d

The Gang Steals Guy Fieri's Tequila

Ian S. Pumpkins @icpetrie.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

music theory professor / music technology professor / music education professor

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 7d

Associate Professor / Full Professor / Assistant Professor

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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.