The Music Nerd
Enter the brain of the musician... or a percussionist at least. After devoting this year to discovering the world of music, I have some gems I wish to impart. Please use them in your next Harmony lecture, to bring some sunshine to a monotonous day. Be well and sing loud, and go crazy...
The Harmony Drinking Song ( Karaoke Style)
Do, I need to buy some beer,
Ray, the guy who sells the beer,
Me, the one, who drinks the beer,
Fa, I go to buy a beer,
So, let's have another beer
La - ger is a type of beer,
Ti, no thank's I'll have a beer,
That will bring us back to do... for more beer...
The next step is to sing the song complete with the signs. Press the Refresh button to play the music again, and you can impress all your friends with your astronomical musical knowledge. Dare you to try and impress your teacher...
Then you can try it after too many beers, and see how far you get :)
Musical Definitions... Real answers collected from Music Students... goes to show that we really are a creative bunch :)
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.
John Sebastian 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.
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.
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 also gets stabbed, 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 had rather not say.
A good orchestra is always ready to play if the conductor steps on the odium.
My very best liked piece of music is the Bronze Lullaby.
My favorite composer is Opus.
A harp is a nude piano.
A tuba is much larger than its name.
Instruments come in many sizes, shapes and orchestras.
Another name for kettle drums is timpani. But I think I will just stick with the first name and learn it good.
A trumpet is an instrument when it is not an elephant sound.
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.
Question: What are kettle drums called? Answer: Kettle drums.
A bassoon looks like nothing I have ever heard.
Last month I found out how a clarinet works by taking it apart. I both found out and got in trouble.
Question: Is the saxophone a brass or a woodwind instrument? Answer: Yes.
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.
I can't reach the brakes on this piano!
The main trouble with a French horn is it's too tangled up.
Instrumentalist is a many-purposed word for many player-types.
The flute is a skinny-high shape-sounded instrument.
The most dangerous part about playing cymbals is near the nose.
A contra-bassoon is like a bassoon, only more so.
Music instrument has a plural known as orchestra.
My favorite instrument is the bassoon. It is so hard to play people seldom
play it. That is why I like the bassoon best.
It is easy to teach anyone to play the maracas. Just grip the neck and shake him in rhythm.
Just about any animal skin can be stretched over a frame to make a pleasant sound once the animal is removed.
Source: Missouri School Music Newsletter, collected by Harold Dunn
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