ANYWAY, after agonizing over a music history assignment last night, I decided to come up with a drinking game for music history. Obviously I'm not that far into the semester yet, so this may be a cumulative list that builds over time. Here is what I have so far.
Take a sip if:
- You find a written record about one composer criticizing another composer
- Three sips if they do it with a petty, childish remark about how bad their music is, instead of actually making an intelligent argument against the music theory and style
- Four sips if there is some form of debate that ensues
- You read about a composer dying before the age of forty
- You find a quirky, unexplainable key change in the music that "doesn't make theoretical sense"
- You find a piece where you kind of feel sorry for the viola part
- Six sips if the viola part is difficult
- If the lyrics to a piece you're looking at basically say the same thing over and over
- You read about a composer who really sounds like he was an ass in real life.
- Two sips if they're antisemitic.
- Three sips if they're Wagner.
- If the composer is a woman
- Two sips if it's Clara Schumann
- Three sips for Fanny Mendelssohn
- Four sips for Hildegard von Bingen
- Five sips for anybody else
- An opera you're listening to involves some sort of song about dying
- If you see a piano piece with a posthumously added nickname/title
- Two sips if it's not a Chopin piece
- If you see a piano piece with a cadenza
- Two sips if it's not a Liszt piece
- You read the score of a 20th century piece that has really cool and edgy music theory behind it
- Five sips if it actually sounds good when you listen to it
- You hear a piece by Mozart and chuckle softly because you think there are "too many notes"
- Finish the bottle if you proceed to wonder what a Salieri piece sounds like
Bahah! Hmm... what can I add to this...
ReplyDeleteWhat about a composer being a brilliant musician/composer but a complete jerk in real life?
that would be most of them....
Deletealso, this is AMAZING. i approve sosososososo much. <3.
Absolutely! I also considered making one about antisemitic composers, but I couldn't think of anybody other than Wagner. Maybe I'll make that a "corollary " drink.
DeleteThanks, Kelley! :) Glad this game has your approval ;)
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