Answers from Students on Music Exams
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. Young scholars have expressed their rapture for the Bronze Lullaby, the Taco Bell Cannon, 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. Diatonic is a low calorie Schweppes. The main trouble with a French Horn is that it is too tangled up. An interval in music is the distance from one piano to the next. The correct way to find the key to a piece of music is to use a pitchfork. Agitato is a state of mind when one's finger slips in the middle of playing a piece. Rock Monanoff was a famous post-romantic composer of piano concerti. Thanks to Wit and Wisdom
Originally published November 14, 2002.
