Thursday Thirteen - Music

Actual Answers From Students On Music Exams

1. The principal singer of nineteenth century opera was called pre-Madonna. -

2. Gregorian chant has no music, just singers singing the same lines. -

3. Sherbet composed the Unfinished Symphony. -

4. All female parts were sung by castrati. We don't know exactly what they sounded like because there are no known descendants. -

5. Young scholars have expressed their rapture for the Bronze Lullaby, the Taco Bell Cannon, Beethoven's Erotica, Tchaikovsky Cracknutter Suite, and Gershwin's Rap City in Blue. -

6. Music sung by two people at the same time is called a duel; if they sing without music it is called Acapulco. -

7. A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals. -

8. Contralto is a low sort of music that only ladies sing. -

9. Probably the most marvelous fugue was the one between the Hatfields and the McCoys. -

10. Refrain means don't do it. A refrain in music is the part you'd better not try to sing. -

11. I know what a sextet is but I'd rather not say. -

12. My favorite composer was Opus. Agnus Dei was a woman composer famous for her church music. -

13 . Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. -

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