Following are actual answers from students on
music tests...

- The principal 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 ladies sing.

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

- - 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.