29 classical music memes that will make you chuckle

20 December 2019, 15:21 | Updated: 20 December 2019, 15:28

Do you feel all weird and woozy when you hear a chord cluster? Does the very thought of a perfect cadence make you melt? Then you’ll love these super-geeky classical music memes.

1. A truer meme never existed

 

 

 

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2. Brass lolz

3. Eric loves a chord cluster

(via Salvador Jacobo)

4. When you sing you begin with Do Re Mi…

5. Don’t feel bad, Mozart procrastinated too

6. Headphones are so overrated

7. When composers ask a *little* too much of you

(via patdalecki)

8. Boromir always knows best

9. Pizza + cat = any string player’s dream

10. Just some sheet music, keeping things real

11. Gold star for you if you can translate this VERY cryptic code

12. Why you haydn, Joseph?

13. This... thing that literally doesn’t make any sense

14. When your name sounds a *little* too much like a piece of airport baggage

15. When you play this beautiful Italian string instrument, but society refuses to recognise you 

16. Because any self-respecting musician knows that for every circle, you’re 1% more likely to actually play the damn dynamic this time

17. This doggo, repping our constant need for a sensible time signature

(via pianosnippets.tumblr.com)

18. This glorious Christmas present

(via Tom Craine)

19. Because darling, it’s better down where it’s wetter

(via classicalcarp.tumblr.com)

20. When your instrument literally stops you living life as a normal human being

21. Just some millennials, ruining classical music for everyone. Ugh.

(via Marian Call) 

22. When bae’s in a weird mood

(via towards-tomorrow.tumblr.com)

23. When literally anything is more appealing than playing endless chromatic scales

(via new-world-symphony.tumblr.com)

24. When sometimes, you’ve got to get your whole body involved

25. When you’ve always wondered what The Terminator does for his day job, then it finally hits you

26. When you have a concert tomorrow, everything you play sounds rubbish and you might be on the verge of a nervous breakdown

27. This extremely useful guide, which you won’t be able to unhear

28. This scary white van man, who you probs don’t want to mess with

29. Oh, and there’s the genius who made this

For even more memes, here are 10 of our best retro classical music memes.