Music To My Ears
Answers To Test Questions Compiled By Music Teachers From The Missouri School Music Newsletter:
- Refrain means don't do it.
- A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals.
- Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was rather large.
- Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling him. I guess he could not hear so good.
- Henry Purcell is a well known composer few people have ever heard of.
- Aaron Copland is one of your most famous contemporary composers. It is unusual to be contemporary. Most composers do not live until they are dead.
- An opera is a song of bigly size.
- When a singer sings, he stirs up the air and makes it hit any passing eardrums. But if he is good, he knows how to keep it from hurting.
- Music sung by two people at the same time is called a duel.
- I know what a sextet is but I'd rather not say.
- Probably the most marvelous fugue was the one between the Hatfields and McCoys.
- My very best liked piece of music is the Bronze Lullaby.
- My favorite composer is Opus.
- A harp is a nude piano.
- A tuba is much larger than its name.
- A trumpet is an instrument when it is not an elephant sound.
- When electric currents go through them, guitars start making sounds. So would anybody.
- A bassoon looks like nothing I have ever heard.
- Last month I found out how a clarinet works by taking it apart. I both found out and got in trouble.
- Question: Is the saxophone a brass or a woodwind instrument? Answer: Yes.
- The concertmaster of an orchestra is always the person who sits in the first chair of the first violins. This means that when a person is elected concertmaster, he has to hurry up and learn how to play a violin real good.
- For some reason, they always put a treble clef in front of every line of flute music. You just watch.
- Anyone who can read all the instrument notes at the same time gets to be the conductor.
- The most dangerous part about playing cymbals is near the nose.
- Musical instrument has a plural known as orchestra.
- It is easy to teach anyone to play the maracas. Just grip the neck and shake him in rhythm.
- Just about any animal skin can be stretched over a frame to make a pleasant sound once the animal is removed.
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