<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>CHILDREN'S ANSWERS IN MUSIC EDUCATION. These are = stories and test questions accumulated by music teachers in the state of Missouri, circa 1989. Source:  Missouri School Music Newsletter. * It is important to be able to reach the brakes on = any piano. * Just about any animal skin can be stretched over a frame to = make a pleasant sound once the animal is removed. * It is easy to teach = anyone to play the maracas.  Just grip the neck  and shake him in rhythm. * My favorite instrument is the bassoon.  It is so hard = to play people  hardly ever play it.  That is why I like the = bassoon best. * I would like for you to teach me to play the cello. Would tomorrow or  Friday be best? * The plural form of musical = instrument is known as orchestra. * Tubas are a bit too much. * A = contra-bassoon is like a bassoon, only the opposite. * The most dangerous part about = playing cymbals is near the nose. * The flute is a skinny-shape-high-sounded instrument. * Instrumentalist is a many-purposed word used by many player-types. * Anyone who can read all the instrument notes at the = same time gets to  be the conductor. * The main trouble with a French = horn is it's too tangled up. * For some reason, they always put a treble clef = in front of every line  of flute music.  You just watch. * = 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. * Question:  Is the saxophone a brass or a woodwind instrument? Answer:  Yes. * Last month I found out how a = clarinet works by taking it apart. I both found out and got in trouble. * A = bassoon looks like nothing I have ever heard. * Cymbals are round, metal = CLANGS! * Question:  What are kettle drums called? * Answer:  Kettle drums. * When electric currents go through them, guitars start making sounds.  So would anybody. * The double bass is also = called the bass viol, string bass, and bass  fiddle.  It has so = many names because it is so huge. * While trombones have tubes, trumpets prefer = to wear valves. * A trumpet is an instrument when it is not an elephant = sound. * Another name for kettle drums is timpani. Or else you can = just stick  with the first name and learn it good. * Instruments come in many = sizes, shapes and orchestras. * You should always say 'chili' when you mean = there are two or more cellos. * A tuba is much larger than its = name. * A harp is a nude piano. * My favorite composer is Opus. * My very best = liked piece of music is the Bronze Lullaby. * Probably the most marvelous = fugue was the one between the Hatfields  and the McCoys. * Most = authorities agree that music of antiquity was written long ago. * Morris = dancing is a country survival from times when people were happy. * A good = orchestra is always ready to play if the conductor steps on the odium. * Caruso = was at first an Italian.  Then someone heard his voice and said he = would go a long way.  So that's why he came to America. * I know what a = sextet is but I'm not allowed to say. * Music sung by two people at the same = time is called a duel. * 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. * 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. * An opera is a song = of bigly size. * 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. * Henry Purcell is a well known = composer few people have ever heard of. * 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. * Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He = was rather  large. * John Sebastian Bach died from 1750 to the present. * A = virtuoso is a musician with real high morals. * Refrain means don't do = it.  A refrain in music is the part you better  not try to sing. * = Agnus Dei was a woman composer famous for her church music. </DIV></BODY></HTML>