Music Theory Pillows

The Staff Meeting.

'Guys, could we try a different inversion?...Guys?'

'That was Charlie Parker's 'Ornithology.' I threw in a flat nine in bar 16 and a tritone substitution in bar 22. Who noticed that? Hands up if you noticed!'

Another musical treatise from the 16th century is discovered.

Schenker discovers the true essence of humanity

Jean Philippe Rameau

Major and minor keys

"So typical. Hurry up and wait."

Musical Pondering.

Camille Saint-Saens.

Richard Wagner

"It would sound more bluesy if you used the 'Devil's Interval'."

C'mon, it'll be fun! I'll throw on some stars, pop in a few planets, drum up a life form or two, and this place will be hoppin'! The Big Shebang Theory.

Suzie would later win a Nobel Prize for her Law of Special Social Relativity.

'Thanks to the internet it is now possible to be extremely well-informed and completely wrong at the same time!'

Yound Einstein disproves an early theory: 'Aha! A watched pot DOES boil!'

Sigmund Freud.

Hildegard von Bingen

"Space is curved and time is relative? Yeah, OK...I'm calling you a cab right now, buddy."

"Mine's bigger than yours."

'Quantum Mechanics is one of the three great pillars supporting our understanding of the natural world.

'What do you mean 'theoretically'? Everything we do is theoretical.'

A lady playing piano and a man talking to her

Lecture on Chaos Theory delayed because the speaker dropped his notes.

Sir Patrick Moore.

'A little squirt like Graubart would theorize that the Universe is contracting!'

Sergei Taneyev

'Look Clara, I'm telling you for the last time, it's not me who's crazy. It's Eusebius.'

'According to my calculations, George, you don't exist. You... don't... exist. George. I'm going to have to ask you to leave.'

''Relativity,' you say? — Well, it can't be any worse than your 'speed bump' theory.'

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for Music ofnthe Baroque

"Now version of 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'."

'Kleinzweck has a theory that the strong nuclear force is actually tiny rolls of duct tape.'

"Yes it's Mozart...but is it evidence-based Mozart?"

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