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Music Major Satire

May 07, 2010 23:50

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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cocooyau May 8 2010, 04:28:38 UTC

Thanks for sharing. LOL. I wish it was this easy....

deadache139 May 8 2010, 04:58:05 UTC

It is if you do performance! After all, it requires the least amount of classes...haha

cocooyau May 8 2010, 06:18:53 UTC

I did performance so yeah....

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deadache139 May 9 2010, 03:35:38 UTC

Yep. Everything in the video is spot on.

changing_heaven May 8 2010, 21:44:48 UTC

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 May 9 2010, 03:48:07 UTC

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 May 9 2010, 04:07:46 UTC

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 May 9 2010, 04:20:56 UTC

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. :)

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aspirant2010 May 8 2010, 23:31:23 UTC

That was hilarious. Glad I don't know anyone like that.

deadache139 May 9 2010, 03:37:39 UTC

I envy you that...

kamomil May 9 2010, 14:37:42 UTC

How do people like this get into a music program at all? I wanted to take piano, but I needed grade 10 to major in piano. It was the only instrument I knew and I had only done up to grade 8. I wasn't planning far ahead enough. (if you majored in another instrument, you were required to have grade 8 piano as well)

This isn't only about music majors, it's about the purpose of university in general. I did visual art at university, and theory and history was... what made it a university education.

I expected this to be about how the music majors at university consider a small section of jazz music to be the only valid type of jazz music to study, and thought they were pretty cool.

changing_heaven May 9 2010, 15:45:23 UTC

(As soon as I read 'grades', I knew you must be Canadian! 8D). Yeah, at our faculty you must have a minimum grade nine/ten to do piano as your major practical instrument, though it's not like you have to have the RCM certificate, you just have to play at an equivalent level.

I agree; it's good to be well-rounded!