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Test your knowledge of Classical Music
- The principal singer of nineteenth century opera was called
pre-Madonna.
- It is easy to teach anyone to play the maracas. Just grip the neck
and shake him in rhythm.
- Gregorian chant has no music, just singers singing the same lines.
- Sherbet composed the Unfinished Symphony.
- At one time singers had to use musicians to accompany them. Since
synthesizers came along, singers can now play themselves.
- All female parts were sung by castrati. We don't know exactly 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 ladies sing.
- Diatonic is a low calorie Schweppes.
- Probably the most marvelous fugue was the one between the Hatfields
and the McCoys.
- A harp is a nude piano.
- 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.
- Refrain means don't do it. A refrain in music is the part you'd
better not try to sing.
- I know what a sextet is but I'd rather not say.
- Most authorities agree that music of antiquity was written long ago.
- My favorite composer was Opus.
- Agnus Dei was a woman composer famous for her church music.
- Henry Purcell was a well-known composer few people have ever heard
of.
- 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.
- Rock Monanoff was a famous post-romantic composer of piano concerti.
Okay, that's it unless you want . . .A whole bunch MORE Jokes
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