At one time, singers had to use musicians to accompany them Since synthesizers came along, singers can now play with themselves.

5. 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 Imo Bell Cannon, Beethoven's Erotica, Tchaikovsky's Cracknutter Suite, and Gershwin's Rap City in Blue, In defining musical terms, they also demonstrate that they know their brass from their oboe:

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

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

8. A harp is a nude piano.

9. An oboe is an American tramp. (written by a British student)

10. A Stradivarius is a prehistoric animal.

11. An opera is a song of bigly size.

12. An interval in music is the distance from one piano to the next.

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

14. I know what a sextet is, but I'd rather not say.

15. 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. Bach died from 1750 to the present.

16. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was very large.

17. Beethoven wrote three symphonies: the Third, the Fifth, and the Ninth. He wrote music even though he was deaf. Beethoven 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 for this. Do you know that if Beethoven were alive today, he would be celebrating the 165th anniversary of his death?

18. Aaron Copland is one of our most famous contemporary composers. It is unusual to be contemporary. Most composers do not live until they are dead.

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