Musical Theory Mugs

Chromatic Scale

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

How about you? Have you picked a major?

Music shop

Sergei Taneyev

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!'

Sigmund Freud.

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

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

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

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

"Mine's bigger than yours."

A lady playing piano and a man talking to her

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

'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!'

'What was the first music they ever said 'this isn't even music' about?'

Sir Patrick Moore.

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

Page from 'How to Draw' by Albrecht Durer

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

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for Music ofnthe Baroque

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

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

Musical Pondering.

Igor Stravinsky

Another musical treatise from the 16th century is discovered.

'First particle theory, then wave theory, then plasma theory, and now lime gelatin theory.'

Major and minor keys

Jean Philippe Rameau

Richard Wagner

'Don't believe everything you hear about global cooling, it's just a theory.'

'Hi! -- I'm selling theory insurance!'

Aleksandr Skiabin