[78-L] fwd: Music Test Answers ^ (too good to post only to 78-H)

[David Lennick]

These are stories and test questions accumulated by music teachers in the state 
of Missouri:



·        Agnus Dei was a woman composer famous for her church music.

·        Refrain means don’t do it. A refrain in music is the part you better 
not try to sing.

·        A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals.

·        Johann Sebastian Bach died from 1750 to the present.

·        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. Beethoven expired in 1827 and 
later died from this.

·        Henry Purcell is a well-known composer few people have ever heard of.

·        Aaron Copland is one of your 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.

·        In the last scene of Pagliacci, Canio stabs Nedda, who is the one he 
really loves.  Pretty soon Silvio also gets stabbed, and they all live happily 
ever after.

·        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 in called a duel.

·        I know what a sextet is but I had rather not say.

·        Caruso was at first an Italian.  Then someone heard his voice and said 
he would go a long way.  And so he came to America.

·        A good orchestra is always ready to play if the conductor steps on the 
odium.

·        Most authorities agree that music of antiquity was written long ago.

·        Probably the most marvelous fugue was the one between the Hatfields.

·        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.

·        You should always say celli when you mean there are two or more cellos.

·        Another name for kettle drums is timpani.  But I think I will just 
stick with the first name and learn it good.

·        A trumpet is an instrument when it is not an elephant sound.

·        While trombones have tubes, trumpets prefer to wear valves.

·        The double bass is also called the bass viol, string bass, and bass 
fiddle. It has so many names because it is so huge.

·        When electric currents go through them, guitars start making sounds. 
So would anybody.

·        What are kettle drums called?  Answer: Kettle drums.

·        Cymbals are round, metal CLANGS!

·        A bassoon looks like nothing I have ever heard.

·        Last month I found out how a clarinet works by taking it apart.  I 
found out and got in trouble.

·        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 
concert master, 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.

·        I can’t reach the brakes on this piano!

·        The main trouble with a French horn is it’s too tangled up.

·        Anyone who can read all the instrument notes at the same time gets to 
be the conductor.

·        Instrumentalist is a many-purposed word for many player-types.

·        The flute is a skinny-high shape-sounded instrument.

·        The most dangerous part about playing cymbals is near the nose.

·        A contra-bassoon is like a bassoon, only more so.

·        Tubas are a bit too much.

·        Music instrument has a plural known as orchestra.

·        I would like for you to teach me to play the cello.  Would tomorrow or 
Friday be best?

·        My favorite instrument is the bassoon.  It is so hard to play people 
seldom play it.  That is why I like the bassoon best.

·        Just about any animal skin can be stretched over a frame to make a 
pleasant sound once the animal is removed.