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Stoien, with joy, from one of the horn lists

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Actual Answers Given in a COLLEGE Music-Appreciation Course

- "Sherbet composed the Unfinished Symphony."

- "The principal singer of nineteenth century opera was called pre-Madonna."

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

- "I know what a sextet is but I'd rather not elaborate."

- "Music sung by two people at the same time is called a duel; if they
sing without music it is called Acapulco."

- "Gregorian chant has no music, just singers singing the same lines.
It was made popular by horrifying muppets in the 1980's film 'The Dark
Crystal' and has been popular ever since. I think even Kermit the Frog
said he liked it."

- "Contralto is a low sort of music that only ladies sing and only
dogs can hear. "

- "All female parts were sung by castrati. We don't know exactly what
they sounded like because there are no known descendants."

- "Young scholars have expressed their rapture for the Bronze Lullaby,
the Taco Bell Cannon, Beethoven's Erotica, Tchaikovsky Cracknutter
Suite, and Gershwin's Rap City in Blue."

- "A virtuoso is a musician with really high morals."

- "Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and
had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old
spinster he kept up in his attic."
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