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Music Terms That Make You Laugh

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Hi there, Would a new one like me be welcome here?

Thanks so much in deed.

I like rock. Any one wants to share with me, joins now.

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

I lul'd.

Speaking of f hole. I play guitar, and I hear G string constantly.

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"Violist."

cracks me up every time. :P

this is true...his habit of turning every word into an adverb is as retarded as his music.

I think we are soul mates.

"Violist."

cracks me up every time. :P

Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, tends to agree.

The old guitarist joke goes "I twisted my G string and busted my nut while fingering A minor... what do I do?"

Sir Tristram, violer d'amores

Hey, that's my literary reference!

ritard, f-hole, polytonal

polytonal?

where's all the technological funnies? electronic music components have particularly cute names

Buchla, Moog, MIDI, Korg, etc.

polytonal?

2 keys at once... I think that's the right spelling, but if I'm wrong please correct me:blush:

2 keys at once... I think that's the right spelling, but if I'm wrong please correct me:blush:

He was obviously questioning how it was funny.

He was obviously questioning how it was funny.

right. ;)

2 keys at once... I think that's the right spelling, but if I'm wrong please correct me:blush:

Oh... and 2 NOTES? That's harmony! The basis of all music...

But, it's more that there is more than one tonal center being used at once... like a C Major and D Major chord sounding together. Stravinsky's famous for it.

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Oh... and 2 NOTES? That's harmony! The basis of all music...

But, it's more that there is more than one tonal center being used at once... like a C Major and D Major chord sounding together. Stravinsky's famous for it.

He obviously said two keys.

He obviously said two keys.

oh... bahahaha. WOW. I am so Piano-centric it's insulting. Sorry, Heckel. I retract my statement.

oh... bahahaha. WOW. I am so Piano-centric it's insulting. Sorry, Heckel. I retract my statement.

lol. Whatever

Oh... and 2 NOTES? That's harmony! The basis of all music...

But, it's more that there is more than one tonal center being used at once... like a C Major and D Major chord sounding together. Stravinsky's famous for it.

Well, to be technical, his most popular work is almost definitely Rite of Spring and the most famous (and most common) key juxtapositions by far are those of a tritone and semitone apart. The famous maiden chord is an A Minor underneath an Eb dominant 7th (if I recall correctly).

Fb major underneath Eb dom 7

Yes indeed. Every note of the octonic scale. How cruncy!

How can a 7-tone chord be every note of an octatonic scale?

Oh... and 2 NOTES? That's harmony! A rather important aspect of lots of music...

There, all fixed for you :)

There, all fixed for you :)

nu uh... that's for modern music...

Music started out monophonic... then when two notes were played together, that's what started everything. The experimentation wouldn't have started until they could figure out how to make it more complex. At least that's a paraphrase from Shoenberg. :)

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hemiola, gigue (especially when pronounced gig-ooo

nu uh... that's for modern music...

Music started out monophonic... then when two notes were played together, that's what started everything. The experimentation wouldn't have started until they could figure out how to make it more complex. At least that's a paraphrase from Shoenberg. :)

Well, but there is quite a lot of contemporary music that has no harmonies. (Leaving aside the fact that the term harmony is highly ambivalent in the first place, since it's not clearly distinct from other acoustical properties.)

Ha! I was in the middle of class and I lolled

Wait... so when your teacher said dischord you laughed, or you were online during class?

Please explain, Skye :P

Well, but there is quite a lot of contemporary music that has no harmonies. (Leaving aside the fact that the term harmony is highly ambivalent in the first place, since it's not clearly distinct from other acoustical properties.)

Right... When I said the basis of all music, I meant the basis for which music was created... Like numbers came before algebra, but now some algebra is a whole different concept with letters standing for numbers... You can have A + B = C - F etc... Which has nothing to do with numbers, but it does.

That's how I feel music is. It all started with just notes... And it became something COMPLETELY different.

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