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It Rite As Well Be Spring 30 May 2013 | 02:47 am
But wait, there's more! I thought that previous post was all I had to say about The Rite of Spring on its 100th birthday, but my brain wouldn't stop generating puns and pretty soon "It Rite As Well Be...
It's Gonna Be All Rite 30 May 2013 | 12:20 am
Today marks the 100th birthday of the work about which I've blogged more than anything else, so it wouldn't be rite not to post something. I have a little something in the works for next week, but her...
The Leafs' Lament 15 May 2013 | 04:08 am
Yesterday on Twitter I boldly proclaimed: My blogging sabbatical (heretofore unannounced since I just decided to call it that) ends tonight! Or tomorrow. Can you feel the excitement?! But a funny t...
Words to Leave Behind in 2013 30 Dec 2012 | 02:50 pm
So Lake Superior State University, which clearly has a superiority complex, has published its annual list of words that need to be banned from our collective vocabularies. Honestly, the list could an...
Christmas Time is Here (?) 23 Dec 2012 | 02:24 am
Wow, at the risk of sounding trite and old, Christmas has come up really fast this year. So, instead of my half-planned series of clever posts recapping favorite creations from Christmas Past, let's j...
The Holly and the Ives 18 Dec 2012 | 06:42 pm
Slow times here at MMmusing, and with a lot of exams, papers, and projects still to be graded, 2012 will likely end quietly here. However, I will continue the tradition of bringing back some old seaso...
Choose your own soundtrack 25 Nov 2012 | 01:51 pm
There's an old saying that's worth repeating: "There's humor in repetition." It's hard to say if this is more or less true depending on how humorous the source material is. For example, the quoted sta...
Differently Similar 23 Oct 2012 | 07:57 pm
Once upon a time, I devoted a lot of blogging energy to charting notable examples of " tune theft. " Although it's fun to suggest that composers are lazy plagiarists, I don't really believe that's wha...
Random Acts of Mindness 19 Oct 2012 | 06:45 pm
It's been said (right here in this post, to be precise) that "random" is literally the most oft misused word in the English language. Let's see what I can do to contribute further to the problem. If t...
Mr. Stravinsky's Random Accent Generator 2.0 - Now With More Random! 19 Oct 2012 | 03:28 am
For what it's worth, I've fiddled around with one of my stranger creations, Mr. Stravinsky's Random Accent Generator . I'm afraid it's not much less strange, but 1) I think the recordings sound better...
