Music Major Satire

[deadache139]

One of my professors showed me this youtube video about music majors....it's priceless and satirizes correctly everything about "bad" music majors. I go to a university with a small music department...so yeah. I can appreciate this. I hope no one takes offense!

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[changing_heaven]

It's really sad that many people who go through faculties of music are like this. It puts us hard-working musicians to shame! (Pardon my lack of modesty, but I really get incensed with these sort of people, and it angers me that they take music so lightly). Oh, and just to clarify: I am a piano performance/music history double-major - I love both the performance and academic sides of the field: I defy the stereotype!

[deadache139]

It really is. I got so fed up with it this semester that I bitched out my theory class on the last day of the semester while we did evaluations...far from being the brightest thing I ever did, and I don't think the people it was aimed at will change their silly ways, haha. Not to say that I'm perfect either.

Interesting that you are doing the history/performance double major. I'm performance right now (my university doesn't offer anything besides a B.A, B. Mus in performance, or a Music Ed degree), but I plan on going to grad school for history. How is the balance act going for you? haha. It's not easy when your interests are divided. I'm kind of pulling myself in 4 directions between theory, history, performance, and collaborative piano. I'd like to hear how the double major is working out for you.

[changing_heaven]

That is too awesome! Good for you - even if they won't change, at least you can feel some gratification for letting them know how you feel. ;) Ugh, I'm so glad that the majority of my classes this year were specialized electives. Most of the people actually want to be there! Sigh.

LOL Oh my, you and I sound terribly alike! My heart is torn between solo piano, collaborative, and history (which kind of includes theory, to a degree ;D), so I COMPLETELY understand how you feel!! The balancing act is difficult, to say the least: my biggest problem this year was when I had scheduled time to read for my music history research (I'm doing a focus on Beethoven; currently working out a do-able thesis), a little voice would remind me of my degree recital at the end of April, and thus I would go practice instead. :X So, I have some catching up as far as research goes this summer. I'm also studying abroad in a collaborative piano/vocal summer program for 1/4 of the summer, to really see if I really like that sort of work, and to get my chops up,

[deadache139]

Friend away! We apparently have more in common than I realized. Will admit, that I rarely venture into livejournal anymore. It's a time thing haha.

It's a huge time commitment, being interested! I'm doing an independent study in score reading and accompaniment with one of my professors, and I'm finally landing gigs, which is awesome. I somehow found myself hired as a church back-up organist...the first time I touched a pipe organ was at my interview. Learning organ is just another thing to juggle into my schedule...I think I will be faking it for a very long time haha.

Right now, I'm just taking every possible elective that relates to history or theory. Both the history professors are willing to let me take their grad classes, so I might take them up on that instead of doing an independent study with them.

Very jealous of your study abroad! Where are you going? That's going to be awesome. :)

[changing_heaven]

Woo! Yeah, me too, but it's always nice to have people around who will understand what you're talking about. ;)

Wow, congrats! LOL that's epic, having to fake the organ! @__@ But what you're taking otherwise sounds great - I've thought about doing some grad classes for history, but they're structured like seminars, so they're not really 'classes', per se - there might be some neat electives offered next year. *crosses fingers*

Thank you! I'm very excited. I'm attending a program in Western Canada for three weeks. It's not long, but from what I know, it's extremely intense (I have yet to get my detailed schedule). What pieces are you currently working on?

[deadache139]

That's going to be so fantastic. I hope you have a great time

[changing_heaven]

Thanks! I'm really excited about it

[deadache139]

Good luck with your upcoming performance! I love that Schumann...the whole piece has such an interesting background.

I like your idea of doing a thesis on pastoral imagery and all that...you could take that a lot of places. Your independent study should be loads of fun---I'm jealous! :)

Hmmm favorite composer....this is so hard. I adore Chopin...I love Barber, Gershwin, the Schus, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky (not particularly for his piano music though), the Impressionists...I don't know, I love them all. I get a little picky when it comes to 20th Century, however.

[kamomil]

I can't believe people like this weren't weeded out during the admissions process.

[changing_heaven]

Amen! No kidding. But I guess they want to give everyone a chance? >___>