Musicologist Pillows

'Everybody stand back! I'm an ethnomusicologist.'

'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!'

"I happen to be a doctor of music,madam."

"Hello? is it me you're looking for?"

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

Antonin Dvorak

Street Organist in the East End Slums

"Er, you do realise, of course, that I'm a doctor of music"

A little night music...

Vivaldi and his creative partner

'I've made spaghetti Johann - very good for contrapuntal work!'

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

"Whoa! That dude is awesome!"

Barbara Strozzi

'Now you tell me that you're only a doctor of music!'

Mozart

Hildegard von Bingen

'Lincoln Goes Goth While Washington Favors Rockabilly and Hamilton Remains Mostly Mozart'

Office of Lyrics You Can't Understand

Help me Rhombus

"I can't help you with your chronic whistling. You don't need a psychiatrist, you need a musicologist!"

Richard Wagner

Franz Schubert.

Did you know Mozart died young to avoid muzak?

Hildegard von Bingen

'It's not tunes, it's Beethoven.'

'Now THERE'S a friendship I've never quite understood. That's Ludwig van Beethoven on the left, with Harvey Fernquist, the inventor of telephone 'hold' music!'

Josquin Des Press

"Now version of 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'."

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

Piano horror stories

Modest Mussorgsky

Dmitri Shostakovich

"That's what it says alright: 'hey, bird dog, get away from my chick.'"

Hurdy gurdy