(humor) You might be a music theory geek if...

I'm attending the performance tonight of Simon Rattle and
the Philadelphia Orchestra (and lots of singers) in Schoenberg's
_Gurrelieder_, and was searching the web to see if there's any
press about it, when I found this bit of humor.
Many of you should get quite a laugh out of it.

(I think the bit about the '9th overtone' qualifies
everyone here as a music theory geek!...)

Here's where I got it (delete the line-feed in 'sundry'):

http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Facility/4118/misc/humor/sundry
.html#mtgeek

Some stuff there is really stupid, some is totally obnoxious,
but some is REALLY REALLY funny. In particular, check out:

- 'Musical Musings' (where someone actually *does* end a
joke with 'polyphony'!),

- (only slightly off-topic for this list, but sure to
delight the mathematicians) 'The Saga of Polly Nomial',

- (totally off-topic, but hilarious if you've ever had
to make a flow-chart), 'The Male Guide to Selecting an Outfit'.

The 'Snigets' and 'Writing Wrules' are worth reading too.

(And yes, there actually *were* plans for a 'Gurrelieder party'
in Philadelphia tonight! ... but alas, they fell thru...)

Enjoy!

-monz

-------------- forwarded message ------------------------

YOU MIGHT BE A MUSIC THEORY GEEK IF:

- your favorite pickup line is, "What's your favorite
augmented sixth chord?"

- you like to march around your room to the rhythms of
Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps."

- you love to quote Walter Piston.

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

- you feel the need to end Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony
with a picardy third.

- you can improvise 16th century counterpoint with no trouble,
but you frequently forget how to tie your shoes.

- you lament the decline of serialism.

- you enjoy the tang of a tritone whenever you can.

- you like to deceive your friends and loved ones with
deceptive cadences.

- you find free counterpoint too liberal.

- you wonder what a "Danish Sixth" would sound like.

- the "Corelli Clash" gives you goosebumps.

- you can hear an enharmonic modulation coming a mile away.

- you have ever done a Schenkerian analysis on "Three Blind Mice."

- you have ever tried to do a Schenkerian analysis on John Cage's
_4'33"_.

- you have hosted a "Gurrelieder" party.

- you have ever pondered what an augmented seventh chord
would sound like.

- bass motion by ascending thirds or a sequential pattern with
roots in ascending fifths immediately strikes you as "belabored."

- you know what the ninth overtone of the harmonic series is
off the top of your head.

- you can name ten of Palestrina's contemporaries.

- you have ever heard a wrong note in a performance of a
piece by Berio, Stockhausen, or Boulez.

- when you're feeling particularly prankish, you transpose
Mozart arias to locrian mode.

- you keep a notebook of useful diminutions.

- those "parasitic" dissonances make you queasy,
especially when left unresolved.

- you know the difference between a Courante and a Corrente.

- you have ever used the word "fortspinnung" in polite conversation.

- you feel cheated by evaded cadences.

- every now and then you like to kick back and play something
in hypophrygian mode.

- you abbreviate your shopping list using figured bass.

- you have ever told a joke that had this punchline:
"because it was POLYPHONIC!"

- you know dirty acronyms for the order of sharps.

- you can not only identify any one of Bach's 371
Harmonized Chorales by ear, but you also know on what
page it appears in the Riemenschneider edition and
how many suspensions it has in the first seven bars.

Joseph L. Monzo Philadelphia monz@juno.com
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html
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>From: Joe Monzo <monz@juno.com>
>
>(I think the bit about the '9th overtone' qualifies
>everyone here as a music theory geek!...)
>
>YOU MIGHT BE A MUSIC THEORY GEEK IF:
>
>- you know what the ninth overtone of the harmonic series is
> off the top of your head.

And all this time I thought it was necessary to know the nineTEENTH overtone!

John Link

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or the 31st or the 49th for that matter
which i do hahahahahahahahah
geeks make good music

John Link wrote:

> From: johnlink@con2.com (John Link)
>
> >From: Joe Monzo <monz@juno.com>
> >
> >(I think the bit about the '9th overtone' qualifies
> >everyone here as a music theory geek!...)
> >
> >YOU MIGHT BE A MUSIC THEORY GEEK IF:
> >
> >- you know what the ninth overtone of the harmonic series is
> > off the top of your head.
>
> And all this time I thought it was necessary to know the nineTEENTH overtone!
>
> John Link
>
> ****************************************************************************
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> featuring original compositions as well as arrangements of instrumental
> music by Brahe and Taylor, Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Claude Debussy, Bill
> Evans, Ennio and Andrea Morricone, Modeste Mussorgsky, Erik Satie, and Earl
> Zindars.
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>From: Patrick Pagano <ppagano@bellsouth.net>
>
>or the 31st or the 49th for that matter
>which i do hahahahahahahahah

Come to think of it, so do I. That's sick!

>geeks make good music

Mmm...

John Link

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music by Brahe and Taylor, Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Claude Debussy, Bill
Evans, Ennio and Andrea Morricone, Modeste Mussorgsky, Erik Satie, and Earl
Zindars.

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