<div id=AOLMsgPart_4_88a626d4-91e5-418a-bc14-cd682afe8f95 style="MARGIN: 10px"> <div id=AOLMsgPart_7_88a626d4-91e5-418a-bc14-cd682afe8f95> <div> <div><br> </div> <div><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Maybe this is why they don't teach music in high school<br> any more. Following are actual answers from students<br> on music tests...<br> <br> - The principal singer of nineteenth century opera was<br> called pre-Madonna.<br> <br> - Gregorian chant has no music, just singers singing<br> the same lines.<br> <br> - Sherbet composed the Unfinished Symphony.<br> <br> - All female parts were sung by castrati. We don't<br> know exactly what they sounded like because there<br> are no known descendants.<br> <br> - Young scholars have expressed their rapture for<br> the Bronze Lullaby, the Taco Bell Cannon,<br> Beethoven's Erotica, Tchaikovsky Cracknutter<br> Suite, and Gershwin's Rap City in Blue.<br> <br> - Music sung by two people at the same time is<br> called a duel; if they sing without music it is called<br> Acapulco.</FONT><br> </FONT></div> <div><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals.<br> <br> - Contralto is a low sort of music that only ladies<br> sing.<br> <br> - Probably the most marvelous fugue was the<br> one between the Hatfields and the McCoys.<br> <br> - I know what a sextet is but I'd rather not say.<br> <br> - Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a great many<br> musical compositions and had a large number<br> of children. In between he practiced on an old<br> spinster which he kept up in his attic.<br> <br> - Rock Monanoff was a famous post-romantic<br> composer of piano concerti.</FONT><br> </div> </FONT></div> </div> </div> <div id='u8CA512BE068394A-A9C-22C1' class='aol_ad_footer'><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Supercharge your AIM. Get the <A title="http://download.aim.com/client/aimtoolbar?NCID=aolcmp00300000002586" href="http://download.aim.com/client/aimtoolbar?NCID=aolcmp00300000002586" target="_blank">AIM toolbar</A> for your browser.</FONT> </div>