Music Student Bloopers These are comments and test answers accumulated by music teachers in the state of Missouri, circa 1989. Source: Missouri School Music Newsletter. I can't reach the brakes on this piano! Just about any animal skin can be stretched over a frame to make a pleasant sound once the animal is removed. The most dangerous part about playing cymbals is near the nose. My favorite composer is Opus. My very best liked piece of music is the Bronze Lullaby. 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. 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. Beethoven was deaf so he wrote lots of loud music. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was rather large. John Sebastian Bach died from 1750 to the present. Agnus Dei was a woman composer famous for her church music. 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. Henry Purcell is a well known composer few people have ever heard of. An opera is a song of bigly size. I know what a sextet is but I would rather not say. Probably the most marvelous fugue was the one between the Hatfields and McCoys. While trombones have tubes, trumpets prefer to wear valves. The double bass is also called the bass viol, string bass, and bass fiddle. It has so many names because it is so huge. When electric currents go through them, guitars start making sounds. So would anybody. 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. For some reason, they always put a treble clef in front of every line of flute music. You just watch. The main trouble with a French horn is it's too tangled up. A contra-bassoon is like a bassoon, only more so. I would like for you to teach me to play the cello. Would tomorrow or Friday be best? Home / Words About Music