Music Answers

"Music Answers"*

*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 Mon Oct 25 15:58:24 2010