maianess Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 So the other day I was describing a piece of mine... and I called it "squishy." How strange is that? Does anyone have the slightest idea what that means? (Honestly, I'm barely sure.) What are some of your favorite out-of-the-ordinary musical adjectives? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujimufu Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 squishy I assume means like, spongy. Like, you can press it. You can squash it. Squishy. Scornful, spiky, tasty, horny, kinky, destructively ironic, desperately colourful and harmless, fantastically imaginative, imaginary, madly nude and squared are just some of my favourites. >_> <_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qmwne235 Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 destructively ironic How postmodern! I'd describe many of Ferkungamabooboo's pieces as "crunchy", and I would understandably describe Conlon Nancarrow's Studies for Player Piano as "whooshy", as if that were a word. I haven't used many particularly weird ones, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujimufu Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 How can you possibly describe all 50 of them with one word? :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qmwne235 Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Ok, some of them are rather "plunky", and others are just plain bizarre. In fact, I would consider most of the tempo canons to be one of these two. "Whoosiness" is very sophisticated, though, and Nancarrow certainly mastered it. (Be aware that I've at most about 10 of them.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonconformist12tone Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 I personally enjoy the following passage from Satie. "Besides, I enjoy measuring a sound much more than hearing it. With my phonometer in my hand, I work happily and with confidence. What haven't I weighed or measured? I've done all Beethoven, all Verdi, etc. It's fascinating. The first time I used a phonoscope, I examined a B flat of medium size. I can assure you that I have never seen anything so revolting. I called in my man to show it to him. On my phono-scales a common (or garden) F-sharp registered 93 kilos. It came out of a fat tenor whom I also weighed. " :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrination Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 i believe in a robert w. smith band piece he uses a tempo marking, "bombastic" i like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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blackballoons Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 I've seen that before. Someone described my music to me once. "extravagantly dissonant." Also, I would describe Ravel as flowery but that's nothing new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qmwne235 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Yeah, I learned the Faerie's Aire, too. It was a little too hard for me, at the time, but I can play it fairly well now. I personally consider Summer Music by Samuel Barber, recommended to me by QcC, to be something like..."lazily sinister". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voce Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 I'd just call it "sleepy." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flint Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 I like the term "raucous" (only because my college orchestra used that whenever anyone other than his beloved strings played louder than mezzopiano). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchell Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Old meme is old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcharney Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Let's not forget Percy Grainger's absolutely ridiculous expression markings...apparently anything can be turned into an adverb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.J. Meiser Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 ^I really hate it when nouns get used as tempo markings too. Especially with added punctuation. I'm doing a band piece that has "Intensity!" as a tempo marking.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maianess Posted February 1, 2009 Author Share Posted February 1, 2009 It's PUNCTUATED??? Wow, that's kind of ridiculous... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qmwne235 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 When our orchestra played Spiderpig, it was marked "As serious as a heart attack". But then again, that was Spiderpig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardener Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 When our orchestra played Spiderpig, it was marked "As serious as a heart attack".But then again, that was Spiderpig. I love that :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcharney Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 ^I really hate it when nouns get used as tempo markings too. Especially with added punctuation. I'm doing a band piece that has "Intensity!" as a tempo marking.... Let me guess...there's kind of a quick, epic fanfare opening that takes itself way too seriously and then a ritardando into a slow, blah section followed by a recap of the A section to the end? That sounds like the kind of band piece that would have that tempo marking...:whistling: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chodelkovzart Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 i was offended when one of my friends called my music "fat". :angry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cody Loyd Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 I have heard my music described as painful... it was probably warranted though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlioz Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Well some of my music has been described originally enough by M_is_D as "a cacophony of insanity and strange sadistic childish delusion". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qmwne235 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Miguel, that's actually pretty accurate. :P Some of La Monte Young's music is painful...:ermm: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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