Megan Non Brevis
@theorymeg.bsky.social
Music theorist, early music specialist, mezzo soprano, feminist, yogi, hiker. Into equitable pedagogy. Author of Hearing Homophony (OUP 2020: http://bit.ly/341RhmB). She/her/hers.
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Congratulations to author James O’Leary (and editor @normhirschy.bsky.social) on the publication of The Middle Brow Musical @oupacademic.bsky.social!
November 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Congratulations to author James O’Leary (and editor @normhirschy.bsky.social) on the publication of The Middle Brow Musical @oupacademic.bsky.social!
Everyone should read this book! I found myself saying “wow that’s so cool!” on almost every page. Congratulations Anabel!
Anabel Maler is this year’s winner of the Society for Music Theory’s Emerging Scholar Book Award, for her incredible book,
Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music
She is amazing!!!
Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music
She is amazing!!!
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Everyone should read this book! I found myself saying “wow that’s so cool!” on almost every page. Congratulations Anabel!
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I like the SMT a lot. It is a good academic society that is pretty consistently led by people who respect and care about their colleagues.
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I like the SMT a lot. It is a good academic society that is pretty consistently led by people who respect and care about their colleagues.
Hear me out, maybe libraries ... don't need AI for anything? This is a solution in search of a problem.
Aside from my "was this really written in 2025, not two years ago" snarky response, I couldn't help thinking throughout this entire blog post that a huge part of why so many libraries are STUCK on dealing with AI is because we literally don't have the staff time or funding to deal with it.
Do Academic Libraries Have a Strategy for AI? 📚
"...while two-thirds of libraries are exploring AI features in vendor products, only about half are offering guidance to their communities on how to use AI responsibly in academic work."
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/30/g...
"...while two-thirds of libraries are exploring AI features in vendor products, only about half are offering guidance to their communities on how to use AI responsibly in academic work."
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/30/g...
November 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Hear me out, maybe libraries ... don't need AI for anything? This is a solution in search of a problem.
I’ve just started this and it’s fabulous so far! I can’t wait to read more.
Congratulations to @burnschelsea.bsky.social on the publication of her new book, The Exotic Self: Mexican and Brazilian Modernists Abroad and at Home! See it in person at AMS/SMT at the OUP booth. @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I’ve just started this and it’s fabulous so far! I can’t wait to read more.
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Hey, I feel like they're not publicizing this much, but SMT is doing free livestreams of selected sessions. Info is gathered here: minneapolis2025.ams-smt.org/smt-hybrid-s... #amsmt25
November 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Hey, I feel like they're not publicizing this much, but SMT is doing free livestreams of selected sessions. Info is gathered here: minneapolis2025.ams-smt.org/smt-hybrid-s... #amsmt25
ICYMI, there is a downloadable PDF of the AMS/SMT program, it's just impossible to find and poorly labeled.
minneapolis2025.ams-smt.org/program-guide/
minneapolis2025.ams-smt.org/program-guide/
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ICYMI, there is a downloadable PDF of the AMS/SMT program, it's just impossible to find and poorly labeled.
minneapolis2025.ams-smt.org/program-guide/
minneapolis2025.ams-smt.org/program-guide/
I'm just a girl standing in front of a conference website asking for a downloadable PDF of the program.
October 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I'm just a girl standing in front of a conference website asking for a downloadable PDF of the program.
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This is how you blurb
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This is how you blurb
Do we have to explain the difference between content and skills again?
If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
October 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Do we have to explain the difference between content and skills again?
How is Tidal for Western Classical music? I (regrettably) use Spotify for all of my teaching playlists but I'm interested in shifting over if I'll still be able to find the lion's share of the same recordings. Bonus points if you can see the whole f*&#ing track title and the composer name!
October 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
How is Tidal for Western Classical music? I (regrettably) use Spotify for all of my teaching playlists but I'm interested in shifting over if I'll still be able to find the lion's share of the same recordings. Bonus points if you can see the whole f*&#ing track title and the composer name!
My toxic trait is trying to find repertoire that allows me to do each day of aural skills in a single key.
October 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
My toxic trait is trying to find repertoire that allows me to do each day of aural skills in a single key.
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you show me the most screamingly opposed reader reports and I WILL insist they’re not irreconcilable and are actually pushing if not for the same then for complementary ends
October 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
you show me the most screamingly opposed reader reports and I WILL insist they’re not irreconcilable and are actually pushing if not for the same then for complementary ends
What is your most niche marginalia practice?
MSS B.1.20, Instead of manicules, the reader of this 13th c manuscript used tiny faces to mark interesting points in the text. #marginaliamonday
mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...
mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...
October 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
What is your most niche marginalia practice?
I started writing little eye roll emojis in my margins when I was reading an argument that particularly annoyed me.
MSS B.1.20, Instead of manicules, the reader of this 13th c manuscript used tiny faces to mark interesting points in the text. #marginaliamonday
mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...
mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...
October 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I started writing little eye roll emojis in my margins when I was reading an argument that particularly annoyed me.
Here's looking at you, @goodnotesapp.bsky.social -- please, keep adding useless, clunky, ugly features and making it harder and harder to *checks notes* write things down.
From a product management standpoint, seems like makers of most products have lost their way. Upgrades are becoming dreaded in every sphere of life.
Enshitification is too mild a word.
We're now expecting upgrades to make products worse, to add inconvenience, or to diminish privacy and choice.
Enshitification is too mild a word.
We're now expecting upgrades to make products worse, to add inconvenience, or to diminish privacy and choice.
The future is great, huh?
"A software update to Jeep 4xE models caused major malfunctions over the weekend – leaving many owners stranded and some in danger after their power failed."
www.thestack.technology/jeep-softwar...
"A software update to Jeep 4xE models caused major malfunctions over the weekend – leaving many owners stranded and some in danger after their power failed."
www.thestack.technology/jeep-softwar...
October 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Here's looking at you, @goodnotesapp.bsky.social -- please, keep adding useless, clunky, ugly features and making it harder and harder to *checks notes* write things down.
This is your periodic reminder that education (higher or otherwise) has benefits other than improving your capacity to perform in the labor market, and these benefits may in fact even be *more important* than employability.
October 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
This is your periodic reminder that education (higher or otherwise) has benefits other than improving your capacity to perform in the labor market, and these benefits may in fact even be *more important* than employability.
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GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell
Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
This! (Roxane's post is re: students using AI.) So much of my pedagogy for first-year students is just building growth mindset and helping them see that they *already know* a lot about music, I'm just helping them access that knowledge. They are so afraid to say "I don't know" or "I don't know yet."
What's especially frustrating is that these kids are SMART! They're charming! They're interesting! I am not sure why they don't trust themselves.
October 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This! (Roxane's post is re: students using AI.) So much of my pedagogy for first-year students is just building growth mindset and helping them see that they *already know* a lot about music, I'm just helping them access that knowledge. They are so afraid to say "I don't know" or "I don't know yet."
Just accidentally signed an email "All beset" instead of "All best" how is your day
October 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Just accidentally signed an email "All beset" instead of "All best" how is your day
New book alert!!
I'm so pleased to finally have this book in my hot little hands! You, too, can have this feeling—for 30% off!—with code AUFLY30 at global.oup.com/academic. Want to try before you buy? You can read the Intro for free at this link (available until October 30): academic.oup.com/book/60725/c...
October 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
New book alert!!
I was reflecting on this question this weekend and concluded that resisting AI is good pedagogy but bad institutional strategy. And when enrollment is one of the existential threats to small colleges, I can understand why administrators choose strategy over pedagogy/outcomes. But I don't like it.
Sincere question: is there a single college or university anywhere that is approaching AI from a position of resistance?
October 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I was reflecting on this question this weekend and concluded that resisting AI is good pedagogy but bad institutional strategy. And when enrollment is one of the existential threats to small colleges, I can understand why administrators choose strategy over pedagogy/outcomes. But I don't like it.
Fixed it: "By discouraging students and faculty from talking to each other, we are enabling them to make factually incorrect connections and destroying the value of expertise at the cost of our collective knowledge and understanding. But at least nobody will have to feel dumb asking a question."
what is this word vomit
October 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Fixed it: "By discouraging students and faculty from talking to each other, we are enabling them to make factually incorrect connections and destroying the value of expertise at the cost of our collective knowledge and understanding. But at least nobody will have to feel dumb asking a question."
My response to our institutional AI survey was long and fiery, but mostly amounted to: Liberal arts colleges should be advertising that you will actually use your brain here; if we're not a bastion against this technology, what are we even doing?
This should also be how universities reply to the AI thing btw
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
My response to our institutional AI survey was long and fiery, but mostly amounted to: Liberal arts colleges should be advertising that you will actually use your brain here; if we're not a bastion against this technology, what are we even doing?
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.