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| EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)... |
 Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:47 pm |
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*Maybe this is why they don't teach music in high school
any more. Following are actual answers from students on
music tests...
- The principal girl 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.
- All female parts were sung by castrati. We don't know ex-
actly what they sounded like because there are no known
descendants.
- 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.
- 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 old ladies sing.
- Probably the most marvelous fugue was the one between the
Hatfields and the McCoys.
- I know what a sextet is but I'd rather not say.
- Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a great many musical com-
positions and had a large number of children. In between he
practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic.
- Rock Monanoff was a famous post-romantic composer of piano
concerti.
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| Lora Crighton... |
| Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:36 pm |
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EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
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- Gregorian chant has no music, just singers singing the
same lines.
Actually, this is an accurate description of some chant performances
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| Peter T. Daniels... |
| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:01 am |
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On Jul 7, 5:47 pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
<evgm... at (no spam) earthlink.net> wrote:
Quote: *Maybe this is why they don't teach music in high school
any more. Following are actual answers from students on
music tests...
No, they aren't.
Funny how these collections of "student answers" _never_ give any hint
of where they came from, other than some gag writer's imagination.
Quote: - The principal girl 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.
- All female parts were sung by castrati. We don't know ex-
actly what they sounded like because there are no known
descendants.
- 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.
- 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 old ladies sing.
- Probably the most marvelous fugue was the one between the
Hatfields and the McCoys.
- I know what a sextet is but I'd rather not say.
- Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a great many musical com-
positions and had a large number of children. In between he
practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic.
- Rock Monanoff was a famous post-romantic composer of piano
concerti.
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| Thomas Wood... |
| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:45 pm |
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True. 99% of high school students aren't exposed to enough classical music
to produce answers at even this level.
Tom Wood
"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim at (no spam) verizon.net> wrote in message
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On Jul 7, 5:47 pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
<evgm... at (no spam) earthlink.net> wrote:
Quote: *Maybe this is why they don't teach music in high school
any more. Following are actual answers from students on
music tests...
No, they aren't.
Funny how these collections of "student answers" _never_ give any hint
of where they came from, other than some gag writer's imagination.
Quote: - The principal girl 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.
- All female parts were sung by castrati. We don't know ex-
actly what they sounded like because there are no known
descendants.
- 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.
- 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 old ladies sing.
- Probably the most marvelous fugue was the one between the
Hatfields and the McCoys.
- I know what a sextet is but I'd rather not say.
- Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a great many musical com-
positions and had a large number of children. In between he
practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic.
- Rock Monanoff was a famous post-romantic composer of piano
concerti.
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