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

[Thomas Stern]

who was the journalist, name of the book ?
Thanks, Thomas.

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Fun reading, but all too similar to earlier attempts to fake unintended
puns.
A Swedish journalist published a book in the 1930's full of stuff like
this "collected" from newspapers, official documents, school work etc.,
but was fair enough to confess, in his foreword, that most of it was
made up, but "in the style" of authentic errors.
I bow my hat to his memory.
Kristjan


On 2011-12-02 18:42, David Lennick wrote:
> 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.
>
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