Saturday, July 22, 2006

"You Might Be a Music Theory Geek, if..."

I was given this when I was in college and I just found it in a drawer and HAVE to share it! Non music majors might not get this, but then again I would wonder how many music majors would get these let alone remember some of these terms, I've always kept it for some reason so I might as well share it.

1. Your favorite pickup line is, "What's your favorite augmented sixth chord?"

2. You can look at a piece by Back and say, "You know, I think he could have gotten a much better effect this way..."

3. You like to march around your room to the rhythms of Stravinsky's Le Sacred du Printemps.

4. You love to quote Walter Piston.

5. You long for the good old days of movable G-clefs.

6. You like polytonal music, because, hey, the more keys the merrier.

7. You dream in four parts.

8. You feel the need to end Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony with a picardy third.

9. You can improvise 16th century counterpoint with no trouble, but you frequently foreget how to tie your shoes.

10. You enjoy the tang of a tritone whenever you can.

11. You lament the decline of serialism.

12. You like to deceive your friends and loved ones with deceptive cadences.

13. Instead of counting sheep, you count sequences.

14. Your find free counterpoint too liberal.

15. Moussourgsky's Hopak gives you nightmares.

16. You wonder what a "Danish Sixth" would sound like.

17. You have ever told a joke that had this punchline: "because it was polyphonic!"

18. You only sing tunes that make good fugal subjects.

19. The Corelli Clash gives you good bumps.

20. You can hear an enharmonic modulation coming a mile away.

21. You have ever done a Schenkerian analysis on "Three Blind Mice".

22. You have hosted a "Gurrelieder" party.

23. You have ever pondered what an augmented seventh chord would sound like.

24. You have ever trained your dog to jump through a flaming circle of fifths.

25. You know the difference between a Courante and a Courrente.

26. You have composed variations on a theme by Anton Webern.

27. You keep a notebook of useful diminutions.

28. When you're feeling particularly prankish, you transpose Mozart arias to locrian mode.

29. You suspiciously check all the music you hear for dangling sevenths.

30. You have ever heard a wrong note in a performance by a piece by Berio, Stockhausen, or Boulez.

31. You can name ten of Palestrina's contemporaries.

32. You know the ninth overtone of the harmonic series is off the top of your head.

33. You like Mendelssohn's Scotch as well as Beethoven's Fifth!

34. Every now and then you like to kick back and play something in hypophrygian mode.

35. You wonder why there aren't more types of seventh chord.

36. You abbreviate your shopping list by using figured bass.

37. You always invert your countpoint, just in case.

38. You know dirty acronyms for the order of sharps.

39. You consider all music written between 1750 and 1920 to be "rather elementary".

40. You can not only identify any one of Bach's 371 Harmonized Chorales by ear, but you also know what page it appears in the Riemenschneider edition and know many suspensions it has in the first seven bars.
Posted by ABQ Mom :: 7/22/2006 09:59:00 PM :: 3 Comments:

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