Symphonic Misnotes


Even if you think perfect pitch has something to do with baseball, you will enjoy these musical responses that young students wrote on real-life tests:


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


* A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals.


* J.S. 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.


* Caruso was at first an Italian. Then someone heard his voice and said he would go a long way. And so he came to America.


* A good orchestra is always ready to play if the conductor steps on the podium.


* Most authorities agree that music of antiquity was written long ago.


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


* My very best-liked piece is the Bronze lullaby.


* A harp is a nude piano.


* My favorite composer is Opus.


* An opera is a song of a bigly size.


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


* Agnus Dei was a woman composer famous for her church music.


* Music sung by two people at the same time is called a duel.


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


* Stradivarius sold his violins on the open market with no strings attached.


* Do you know that if Beethoven were alive today, he'd be celebrating the 170th anniversary of his death?


* 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.


* In the last scene of Pagliacci, Canio stabs Nedda, who is the one he really loves. Pretty soon Silvio gets stabbed also, and they all live happily ever after.


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

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