Actual Quotes

from Grade School Essays on Classical Music

- A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals.

- 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.

- 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.

- Henry Purcell is a well known composer few people have ever heard of.

- 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.

- An opera is a song of bigly size.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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 favorite composer is opus.

- A harp is a nude piano.

- My very best like piece is the Bronze lullaby.