Music Terms That Make You Laugh

You guys are making this thread unfunny.

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

Please explain, Skye :P

I was in class, online, and after I read that post I laughed aloud despite trying to stifle it because of being in class. It was to demonstrate that I found it funny enough to laugh in class. :D

I was in class, online, and after I read that post I laughed aloud despite trying to stifle it because of being in class. It was to demonstrate that I found it funny enough to laugh in class. :D

Your teacher must be nice to let you online during class ;)

Well, we're allowed laptops for notetaking, and of course we all utilize the wireless to get on various forums and things if the lecture takes a boring turn.

Fb major underneath Eb dom 7

While the chord could be analyzed in various ways, it doesn't even contain the notes of an Fb Major chord...

While the chord could be analyzed in various ways, it doesn't even contain the notes of an Fb Major chord...

Yes it does.

You guys are making this thread unfunny.

I apologize. I'll try to keep my posts up to the high standards set previously with such things as "ritard".

One thing I found funny in a score is Scriabin's sixth sonata. All of the late Scriabin sonatas have instructions that are mildly amusing but the sixth is the best. It's in typical sonata-form and he repeats the exposition twice. On the repeat, he writes down the instructions "Focus this time". Makes me chuckle.

Scriabin also has instructions like "With complete ectasy", "winged terror", and "the dream takes shape". He was an interesting fellow.

Yes it does.

Oh, heh. I've only ever seen a piano transcription of the score (not the Stravinsky original either). It has the chord down as different. Personally, I liked it better the other way. =/

EDIT: Though, it's still not all the notes of the octatonic mode.

In fact, it isn't octatonic at all.

Music started out monophonic... then when two notes were played together, that's what started everything.

Isn't that a contradiction?

In fact, it isn't octatonic at all.

Yep. Just bi-tonality with the octatonic mode used as an "organizer" for consonance and dissonance.

Isn't that a contradiction?

Isn't that a contradiction?

Nahhh. I was talking about the "study" of music... people had been "singing" for a long time. Probably ever since time began with like war calls and whatnot. You could argue that birds and trees had music too because of their natural sounds. But, the actual study of music began when the Church made "Gregorian chants" and Pope Gregory organized them... that's around the time when they discovered that music could be "organized"...

And when two people accidentally sang a major third apart, and they liked it... that's when Music, not music, began as a study.

At least that's what I believe.

Cantabile is funny. Like Adagio Cantabile.

Why can't Adagio abile?

Nahhh. I was talking about the "study" of music... people had been "singing" for a long time. Probably ever since time began with like war calls and whatnot. You could argue that birds and trees had music too because of their natural sounds. But, the actual study of music began when the Church made "Gregorian chants" and Pope Gregory organized them... that's around the time when they discovered that music could be "organized"...

And when two people accidentally sang a major third apart, and they liked it... that's when Music, not music, began as a study.

At least that's what I believe.

Your history isn't really.. uh

Really? I am pretty sure I am right... I just read it in a History of Western Music. O_o

Nahhh. I was talking about the "study" of music... people had been "singing" for a long time. Probably ever since time began with like war calls and whatnot. You could argue that birds and trees had music too because of their natural sounds. But, the actual study of music began when the Church made "Gregorian chants" and Pope Gregory organized them... that's around the time when they discovered that music could be "organized"...

And when two people accidentally sang a major third apart, and they liked it... that's when Music, not music, began as a study.

At least that's what I believe.

You left out that part before :) now you make perfect sense to me.

Though for the record, people "singing" is just as much music to me as people singing Gregorian Chants. Also, I'm no biggie on classical music history, but I thought Gregorian Chants were monophonic :eyebrow:

I could argue that birds have music, because they consciously produce sounds to be aesthetically pleasing. Which, as far as I know, is more than you can see from trees. But I'm also no biggie on botany.

Pizzicato in mexico is used as a word that means "very few"

Eres muy "Pichicato" para comer (you're very pizzicato for eating)

means you eat very few, you didn't eat well, or you put very few food in your plate

You left out that part before :) now you make perfect sense to me.

Though for the record, people "singing" is just as much music to me as people singing Gregorian Chants. Also, I'm no biggie on classical music history, but I thought Gregorian Chants were monophonic :eyebrow:

I could argue that birds have music, because they consciously produce sounds to be aesthetically pleasing. Which, as far as I know, is more than you can see from trees. But I'm also no biggie on botany.

They are.. but I will bet that harmony first happened by "accident" during one of these gregorian chants, and was quickly disregarded as evil and satanic like everything else was...

then people started playing around with it in secret, and there began the study. :)

Dilettante composer Robert W. Smith likes to replace meaningful tempo and character indications with silly instructions like 'Ominous!' or my favourite, 'Fly!'. I'll decide if your contrived little pieces make me feel like I'm flying, Rob - unless you literally want the orchestra to take off like in Stockhausen's Helicopter String Quartet!

They are.. but I will bet that harmony first happened by "accident" during one of these gregorian chants, and was quickly disregarded as evil and satanic like everything else was...

then people started playing around with it in secret, and there began the study. :)

studying = boring

jamming = fun

studying = boring

jamming = fun

:( I consider studying music fun and exciting. To be honest, how could it NOT be?

It pales in comparison to jamming

I differ. Jamming is horrible. I hate it in marching band when the person in front of the person in front of me stops for some reason and the person in front of me collides with them and I collide with them and we get all jammed up and my mouthpiece gets jammed into my mouth from the collision. Painful. And I hate it when my mouthpiece gets jammed in the receiver. Or when a valve or tuning slide jams. Jamming is just ... bad. Oh yeah, and jamming is something guitar players do. Anything guitar players do is inherently potentially bad.

Dilettante composer Robert W. Smith likes to replace meaningful tempo and character indications with silly instructions like 'Ominous!' or my favourite, 'Fly!'. I'll decide if your contrived little pieces make me feel like I'm flying, Rob - unless you literally want the orchestra to take off like in Stockhausen's Helicopter String Quartet!

Unless of course, such instructions are designed to elicit particular associations for the performer(s) which lead to an individuated (while still tempo-appropriate) performance. I mean, to any Western-Music-educated performer, the instruction 'Fly!' will always elicit some variation of a similar tempo/style of articulation, due to common sonic cultural markers.