These are answers to test questions accumulated by music teachers:

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.

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.

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

When a singer sings, he stirs up the air and makes it hit any passing 
eardrums.  But if he is good, he know how to keep it from hurting.

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.

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 trumpet is an instrument when it is not an elephant sound.

Last month I found out how a clarinet works by taking it apart.  I both 
found out and got in trouble.

The most dangerous part about playing cymbals is near the nose.

Just about any animal skin can be stretched over a frame to make a pleasant 
sound once the animal is removed.

Anyone who can read all the instrument notes at the same time gets to be the 
conductor.