- 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 happilly ever after.
- My favourite composer is Opus.
- A harp is a nude piano.
- A virtuoso is a musican with real high morals.
- 'Refrain' means don't do it. A refrain in music is the part you better not try to sing.
- John Sebastian Bach died from 1750 to present.
- Handel was half German, half Italian and half English.
- Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. Het 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 composers. It is unusual to be contemporary. Most composers do not live until they are dead.
- When a singer sings, he stirs up the air and makes it hit any passing eardrums. But if he is good, he knows to keep it from hurting.
- Music song by two people at the same time is called a duel.
- I know what a sextet is but I had rather not say it.
- A good orchestra is always ready to play if the conductor steps on the odium. (odium= "widespread hatred or disgust felt towards somebody, esp because of something they have done", Oxford Dictionary)
- Most authorities agree that music of antiquity was written long ago.
- My very best liked piece of music is the Bronze Lullaby.
- A tuba is much larger than its name.
- Instruments come in many names, shapes and orchestras.
- You should always say 'celli' when you mean two or more cellos.
- Another name for kettle drums is timpani. But I think I will stick to 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 ellectric currents go through them, guitars start making sounds. So would anybody.
- Question: What are kettle drums called?
Answer: Kettle drums.
- Question: Is the saxophone a brass or a woodinstrument?
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!
- Anyone who can read all the instrument notes at the same time gets to be the conductor.
- Instrumentalist is a many-purposed word for many player-types.
- The most dangerous part about playing cymbals is near the nose.
- A contra-bassoon is like a bassoon, only more so.
- Tubas are a bit too much.
- Music instrument has a plural known as orchestra.
- Just about any animal skin can be stretched over a frame to make a pleasant sound once the animal is removed.
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