Margaret P. Fay
Bassoonist. Composer. Music Theorist.
Why do suspensions love New Year's Day?
- They're used to being hung over and they excel at making resolutions.
- Because they don't have to hold onto their past anymore. (Americuss Hirsch)
- They love to let go of the tension they've built up in the past year. (Micah York)
What is a pickle's favourite interval?
How did the school principal punish the tonic chord?
- By giving it a suspension.
- They took away his do ($). (Tiara Cooks)
- He sent him back to PREdominant SCHOOL. (Nelson Schulze)
- The tonic chord got in treble with the principal, so he made it jump off a clef. (Miranda Cash)
- By taking away its BFF (Best Friend Fifth). (Brooke Griffith)
- Sending it to the bass-ment. (Matt Purcell)
What did the leading tone say to the chordal 7th?
- I’ll take the high road and you’ll take the low road! (Most effective if sung)
- If we can’t be together in the end, we’ll have to go our separate ways. (Makenzie Paul)
- Watch your step! (Natalie Riechers)
- How am I leading if I’m in 7th place? (Caleb Kruebbe)
- How do we resolve this situation? (Nelson Schulze)
How many pickles can a V7 eat?
- I don't know, but the chordal 7th-8-9!
- It depends on the "brine" signature.
MUSIC THEORY JOKES
Created in collaboration with my Spring 2022 Music Theory II students at Stephen F. Austin State University. Thank you for being such a supertonic bunch. We may not have stopped the pundemic, but at least we came up with some as-tonic-shing and dominant-ertaining jokes together!
What is a horse's favourite kind of 6/4 chord?
- A NEIGH-bor 6/4!
- Arpeggi-neigh-ted 6/4 (Cassidy Burleson)
- Carrot-dential (Brianna Escamilla)
- None, because they say "neigh" to theory (Katelyn Bawden)
What did the jalapeno pepper ask to have played at its wedding?
- "Taco Bell's" Canon
- Salsa music (Michael Rodriguez, Alexis Olmos, Kathryn Barnes, Reid Wiland, Ashlynn Phelps, Shelby Rotramel, Lucas McKearin, Tiara Cooks)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers, his cousin's band (David Henriquez)
- Pachelbel Pepper's Canon (Israel Delgado, Alyssa Garcia)
- Enchilouda music (Nelson Schulze)
- The Spice Girls (Micah York)
What did the teacher say to the sentence?
- You really get the basic idea! (Dr. Fay)
- You’re (too) basic! (Cassidy Burleson, Michael Rodriguez, Cooper Straubmueller)
- Stop repeating your ideas. (Tiara Cooks)
- Period (Izzy Delgado, Brianna Escamilla, Ashlynn Phelps)
- Do you understand the basic idea of this topic? (Micah York)
- The bell doesn’t release the period, I do. (Caleb Kruebbe)
- Don’t get any funny “ideas!” (Grey Billingsley)
- Presentations are due next class. (Makenzie Paul)
- Don’t forget the period! (Brooke Griffith)
- Great presentation! (Americuss Hirsch)
- Are you ready for your presentation fo continue, Mr. Cadence? (Brianna Alvarado)