"Squishy" and other strange musical adjectives?

So the other day I was describing a piece of mine... and I called it "squishy." How strange is that? Does anyone have the slightest idea what that means? (Honestly, I'm barely sure.) What are some of your favorite out-of-the-ordinary musical adjectives?

squishy I assume means like, spongy. Like, you can press it. You can squash it. Squishy.

Scornful, spiky, tasty, horny, kinky, destructively ironic, desperately colourful and harmless, fantastically imaginative, imaginary, madly nude and squared are just some of my favourites.

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destructively ironic

How postmodern!

I'd describe many of Ferkungamabooboo's pieces as "crunchy", and I would understandably describe Conlon Nancarrow's Studies for Player Piano as "whooshy", as if that were a word. I haven't used many particularly weird ones, though.

How can you possibly describe all 50 of them with one word? :(

Ok, some of them are rather "plunky", and others are just plain bizarre. In fact, I would consider most of the tempo canons to be one of these two.

"Whoosiness" is very sophisticated, though, and Nancarrow certainly mastered it.

(Be aware that I've at most about 10 of them.)

I personally enjoy the following passage from Satie.

"Besides, I enjoy measuring a sound much more than hearing it. With my phonometer in my hand, I work happily and with confidence. What haven't I weighed or measured? I've done all Beethoven, all Verdi, etc. It's fascinating. The first time I used a phonoscope, I examined a B flat of medium size. I can assure you that I have never seen anything so revolting. I called in my man to show it to him. On my phono-scales a common (or garden) F-sharp registered 93 kilos. It came out of a fat tenor whom I also weighed. "

:D

i believe in a robert w. smith band piece he uses a tempo marking, "bombastic"

i like that.

I've seen that before.

Someone described my music to me once. "extravagantly dissonant."

Also, I would describe Ravel as flowery but that's nothing new.

Yeah, I learned the Faerie's Aire, too. It was a little too hard for me, at the time, but I can play it fairly well now.

I personally consider Summer Music by Samuel Barber, recommended to me by QcC, to be something like..."lazily sinister".

I'd just call it "sleepy."

I like the term "raucous" (only because my college orchestra used that whenever anyone other than his beloved strings played louder than mezzopiano).

Old meme is old.

Let's not forget Percy Grainger's absolutely ridiculous expression markings...apparently anything can be turned into an adverb.

^I really hate it when nouns get used as tempo markings too. Especially with added punctuation. I'm doing a band piece that has "Intensity!" as a tempo marking....

It's PUNCTUATED??? Wow, that's kind of ridiculous...

When our orchestra played Spiderpig, it was marked "As serious as a heart attack".

But then again, that was Spiderpig.

When our orchestra played Spiderpig, it was marked "As serious as a heart attack".

But then again, that was Spiderpig.

I love that :D

^I really hate it when nouns get used as tempo markings too. Especially with added punctuation. I'm doing a band piece that has "Intensity!" as a tempo marking....

Let me guess...there's kind of a quick, epic fanfare opening that takes itself way too seriously and then a ritardando into a slow, blah section followed by a recap of the A section to the end?

That sounds like the kind of band piece that would have that tempo marking...:whistling:

i was offended when one of my friends called my music "fat". :angry:

I have heard my music described as painful... it was probably warranted though.

Well some of my music has been described originally enough by M_is_D as "a cacophony of insanity and strange sadistic childish delusion".

Miguel, that's actually pretty accurate. :P

Some of La Monte Young's music is painful...:ermm: