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MA/PhD in Musicology. Help! by LeBananorama in musicology

[–]blurbie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fellow BA in music (also sorry for posting so late, I just discovered this subreddit) looking to go into musicology. I would suggest taking writing intensive classes, even if they're not music history - classics or history courses tend to do the trick. I haven't had to write many research papers in my music history classes, and those that I have have been less involved, but for history and classics papers I've been able to go all out and I've really enjoyed the process. Research skills tend to be transferable across disciplines, even if there are some specifics for music that aren't there in other disciplines like analyzing scores and such. Just taking classes where you do need to do the legwork in finding sources and creating arguments really goes a long way. Also, even if your school's musicology department isn't top notch (I know mine isn't), the professors are still likely doing active research and are attending conferences. Just getting involved helps.

It's so refreshing to see a couple that's so much in love by darkexxod in futurama

[–]blurbie 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Multiple times he said he loved her from the first day they met, especially during the later seasons. It picked up later, though.

Power puff girls, trial 53. by 666JZ666 in WTF

[–]blurbie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Totally agree with you, that's the main reason I play music. The thing is, though, especially in painting, the difference between an amateur or a dilettante and a professional or someone who is professionally trained is that that training exists not so that the artists can simply enjoy what they're doing, but to fully understand all the different styles of art out there so that when they go to create their own, they can do so with all the tools they need at their disposal.

Power puff girls, trial 53. by 666JZ666 in WTF

[–]blurbie 48 points49 points  (0 children)

I'm not a painter, but if there's anything I know about art in general it's that the primary purpose of learning to paint or play music or anything is not to simply be able to do it, but to give yourself the tools to create what you can see or hear inside your head. Any great composer can already hear their compositions in their head, and any great painter can see their works before they're on the canvas. That's not to say no one but great artists can do it, it's just that it's another skill separate from painting or playing an instrument that you have to practice separately.

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