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.