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Make Your Manuscripts Easier To Edit With This One Weird Trick

Pop quiz: Which of these two bibliography extracts is formatted correctly? (These are from the bibliography for my dissertation, if that wasn’t 100% obvious.) They’re exactly the same, right? I haven’t slipped in any typos or Chicago style mistakes for you to catch. If we’re looking at this on the screen in Word or printedContinue reading “Make Your Manuscripts Easier To Edit With This One Weird Trick”

Erin’s Weekly Project Tracker

My work life as a freelancer/adjunct isn’t all that different from when I was a grad student – I’m juggling a bunch of different projects and types of work on any given day, my responsibilities range from ten-minute tasks to long-term projects, multiple unrelated people are depending on me to finish things on time, andContinue reading “Erin’s Weekly Project Tracker”

Hymn Descant: EASTER HYMN

It just figures that this would be the year I decided to Make An Effort and write new hymn descants for Easter! I had just finished arranging the hymns, prelude, and postlude for the little chamber orchestra we usually have when it became clear that we wouldn’t be having an in-person Easter service. I hopeContinue reading “Hymn Descant: EASTER HYMN”

Christ, My All (for SATB choir and speaker)

Today is the 200th birthday of Fanny J. Crosby, who has been my go-to source of public-domain hymn texts for the past few years, so I figured I would finally share a setting of one of her texts that I wrote for my church choir last year, in the hope that church choirs will beContinue reading “Christ, My All (for SATB choir and speaker)”

New Christmas worship song: “Take Up the Story”

Between finals week and Advent, December is always an especially busy time for me. Last year, I realized after Christmas that I had forgotten to post the new song I wrote for my church, so I figured I would hold off until Advent 2019. You can see where this is going–I spent this month chasingContinue reading “New Christmas worship song: “Take Up the Story””

~greatness~

Checking Twitter between AMS papers yesterday afternoon, I saw a few musicology friends grumbling about critic Anthony Tommasini’s new piece in the New York Times, “The Case for Greatness in Classical Music,” adapted from his new book. I took a minute to read it before running off to another paper, and it annoyed me about asContinue reading “~greatness~”