picardy

It's become a running inside joke at this point that invariably someone will end the jam with a Picardy third.

Playing a Picardy third is a quick way for me to get asked to sleep on the couch (only exaggerating slightly).

A Picardy third can be heard at the end of Avengers Infinity War as Thanos watches the sun rise on a grateful universe.

This is an instance of the Picardy Third, a trick that sounds really hilarious when you insert it into a piece where it doesn't belong.

TIL no one knows why it is called a Picardy Third.

I just realized you can do a Picardy third with a millennial whoop over it!

I love using a Picardy third when accompanying sung music and the text demands/suggests it.

I always enjoy the rare moments when Bach doesn't use a Picardy third.

I always did react to the Picardy third with a bit of an eye roll, as one does to dad jokes, so you're onto something there.

There was probably more respectful way to get out of it, but closing minor-key hymns w/ a Picardy third, and major-key hymns w/ major or minor seventh (depending on mood), got me removed.

It is very common in classical music for a piece in a minor key to end on a major chord (called a Picardy 3rd) or in some cases to end on the dominate 5th - which is a major chord.

I sometimes help my children with their piano practice when they're learning hands separately by doing the other hand, and I find it almost impossible to resist adding a Picardy third at the poignant ending of any piece in a minor key...

Signed, music nerd who used to end major-key choral pieces with an "anti-picardy" third during rehearsal.

For example Paris is defined by "A PAR * PIC/GAS/BUR/MAR" (translation: Army Paris something-to Picardy/Gascony/Burgundy/Marsaille).

Next time you're feeling mischievous, try an "anti-Picardy third": end a major key piece (e.g.

And I think plenty of non-musical people would characterize the "millennial whoop" as annoyingly upbeat, most the time, so claiming it is unlike the Picardy third for that reason isn't putting theory ahead of empiricism.