Music Dork -- Word of the Day
Phrygian.
As in, "That's Phrygian awesome, dude!"
Context: My music history professor unintentionally alluded to this use today when he noticed that a particular Medieval modal cadence sounded like a Phrygian cadence when you alter one of the notes in the penultimate chord. He altered the note on the whiteboard and exclaimed, "That sounds like a Phrygian cadence!"
I heard the word Phrygian as a proximate homonym of the ubiquitous adjective friggin' and just about lost my sh-t.
Again, feel free to add this to your lexicon. I'm a walking Word Generator.
As in, "That's Phrygian awesome, dude!"
Context: My music history professor unintentionally alluded to this use today when he noticed that a particular Medieval modal cadence sounded like a Phrygian cadence when you alter one of the notes in the penultimate chord. He altered the note on the whiteboard and exclaimed, "That sounds like a Phrygian cadence!"
I heard the word Phrygian as a proximate homonym of the ubiquitous adjective friggin' and just about lost my sh-t.
Again, feel free to add this to your lexicon. I'm a walking Word Generator.
posted by Jason at 2:08 PM
2 Comments:
Okay. I've tried four times to comment on this thing, and have failed. It stands alone. Anyone who can use the words "phrygian", "proximate homonym" and "ubiquitous" in the same sentence transcends the masses of potential Blog Commenters.
Aw, shucks. [furious blush] You're just saying that because we're dating. [blush, dammit! this won't be convincing unless you blush.]
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