High School Music

"High School Music"

Maybe this is why they don't teach music in high school any more.
Following are actual answers from students on music tests...

- The principal singer of nineteenth century opera was called pre-Madonna.

- Gregorian chant has no music, just singers singing the same lines.

- Sherbet composed the Unfinished Symphony.

- All female parts were sung by castrati.
We don't know exactly what they sounded like because there are no known
descendants.

- Young scholars have expressed their rapture for the Bronze Lullaby,
the Taco Bell Cannon,
Beethoven's Erotica, Tchaikovsky Cracknutter Suite, and Gershwin's Rap
City in Blue.

- Music sung by two people at the same time is called a duel;
if they sing without music it is called Acapulco.

- A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals.

- Contralto is a low sort of music that only ladies sing.

- Probably the most marvelous fugue was the one between the Hatfields
and the McCoys.

- I know what a sextet is but I'd rather not say.

- Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had
a large number
of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up
in his attic.

- Rock Monanoff was a famous post-romantic composer of piano concerti.
Received on Sun Mar 9 07:19:35 2008