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| Actual Test Answers Music Teachers Have Received Refrain means don't do it. A refrain in music is the part you better not try to sing.
[If only...]
John Sebastian Bach died from 1750 to the present.
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. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died from this.
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.
In the last scene of Pagliacci, Canio stabs Nedda who is the one he really loves. Pretty soon Silvio also gets stabbed, and they all live happily ever after.
[Good bedtime story!]
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.
[Only if they're sopranos.]
I know what a sextet is but I had rather not say.
Most authorities agree that music of antiquity was written long ago.
[9 out of 10 music historians agree.]
My favorite composer is Opus.
A harp is a nude piano.
A tuba is much larger than its name.
You should always say celli when you mean there are two or more cellos.
Another name for kettle drums is timpani. But I think I will just stick with the first name and learn it good.
[Good for you, little Timmy!]
The double bass is also called the bass viol, string bass, and bass fiddle. It has so many names because it is so huge.
When electric currents go through them, guitars start making sounds. So would anybody.
Question: What are kettle drums called? Answer: Kettle drums.
[What kind of question is that?]
A bassoon looks like nothing I have ever heard.
Question: Is the saxophone a brass or a woodwind instrument? Answer: Yes.
[Yeah...]
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.
[Like the President?]
For some reason, they always put a treble clef in front of every line of flute music. You just watch.
[By golly! You're right!]
I can't reach the brakes on this piano!
Anyone who can read all the instrument notes at the same time gets to be the conductor.
A contra-bassoon is like a bassoon, only more so.
My favorite instrument is the bassoon. It is so hard to play people seldom play it. That is why I like the bassoon best.
It is easy to teach anyone to play the maracas. Just grip the neck and shake him in rhythm.
[So that's what I am! A maraca!]
Just about any animal skin can be stretched over a frame to make a pleasant sound once the animal is removed. | | |
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| So, my first of three senior recitals approaches. Nervous? A little. Not as much as had Dennis and I not had an elective recital last year. Or gone to the MTNA contest last semester (even after the guy from Juliard creamed us! but then, how can you contend with Stravinsky's own arrangement of Petruska?). So in the far horizon is a Senior Composition Recital (Fall '07) and a Senior Percussion Recital (Spring '08). Howard Payne University Presents in
Senior Recital Joseph Dunlap, piano Sonata in F major, Opus 10, No. 2 . . . . . Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
I. Allegro
II. Allegretto
III. Presto Three Intermezzos, Opus 117 . . . . . . . . . Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Intermezzo in Eb major
Intermezzo in Db major
Intermezzo in C# minor Rakoczy March . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Funeral Procession of Gondolas
I. Andante
II. Andante mesto, non troppo lento Three Rondos on Folk Tunes . . . . . . . . . . Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
I. Andante
II. Vivacissimo
III. Allegro molto | | |
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