“My music is best understood by children and animals.” -Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971): as quoted in the “Sunday Observer” (8 October 1961)
“One man’s noise is another man’s music.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“All of one’s life is a music, if one touches the notes rightly and in time.” -John Ruskin (1819 - 1900): “The Ethics of the Dust” (1875), ‘Lecture IV: The Crystal Orders,’ section 35
A New Song
There was a composer named Zong
Who composed a new popular song.
It was simply the croon
Of a lovesick baboon,
With occasional thumps on the gong.
By Author Unknown
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“I think the first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life was when I was about four years old. I was listening to an old Victrola, playing a railroad song. The song was called ‘Hobo Bill’s Last Ride.’ And I thought it was the most wonderful, amazing thing that I’d ever heard.” -Johnny Cash (1932 - 2003)
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862): “Journals,” ‘January 13, 1857’
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In holy music’s golden speech
Remotest notes to notes respond:
Each octave is a world; yet each
Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.
-Aubrey Thomas de Vere (born Aubrey Thomas Hunt (1814 - 1902))
Eric: My brother has been practicing the violin for twenty years.
Zack: He must be really good.
Eric: Not really - it was nineteen and a half years before he realized you aren’t supposed to blow into it.
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“Who is there that in logical words can express the effect music has on us.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
Wesley: Why did the music teacher need a ladder?
Leslie: To reach the high notes.
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“Today’s music has all the variety of a jackhammer.” -Gregory Benford (born 1941): “The Sigma Structure Symphony” (2012), reprinted in Paula Guran, editor: “Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries & Lore” (2017), page 357
Martha: What comes before a tuba?
Bertha: A one-ba.
Martha: What comes after a tuba?
Bertha: A three-ba.
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“The great object of music is to touch the heart.” -Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (also known as Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (1714 - 1788))
“There is nothing to it. You only have to hit the right notes at the right time and the instrument plays itself.” -J. S. Bach (Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)): as quoted in K. Geiringer: “The Bach Family” (1954), ‘Of the Organ’
Among the fun and unusual musical instruments are didgeridoos, kazoos, pots and pans, slide whistles, washboards, wooden spoons, zinks (cornets), and zithers.
Kevin: What instrument plays only sour notes?
Marvin: A pickle-o.
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“Of all the noises, I think music the least disagreeable.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): as quoted in the “Morning Chronicle” (16 August 1816)
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels: in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): “The Opera” (1852)
“The hardest thing in the world is to start an orchestra, and the next hardest, to stop it.” -Hans Richter (1843 - 1916)
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“I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs, and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880)): “The Mill on the Floss” (1860), Book VI, chapter vi
“One man’s noise is another man’s music.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“All of one’s life is a music, if one touches the notes rightly and in time.” -John Ruskin (1819 - 1900): “The Ethics of the Dust” (1875), ‘Lecture IV: The Crystal Orders,’ section 35
A New Song
There was a composer named Zong
Who composed a new popular song.
It was simply the croon
Of a lovesick baboon,
With occasional thumps on the gong.
By Author Unknown
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“I think the first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life was when I was about four years old. I was listening to an old Victrola, playing a railroad song. The song was called ‘Hobo Bill’s Last Ride.’ And I thought it was the most wonderful, amazing thing that I’d ever heard.” -Johnny Cash (1932 - 2003)
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862): “Journals,” ‘January 13, 1857’
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In holy music’s golden speech
Remotest notes to notes respond:
Each octave is a world; yet each
Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.
-Aubrey Thomas de Vere (born Aubrey Thomas Hunt (1814 - 1902))
Eric: My brother has been practicing the violin for twenty years.
Zack: He must be really good.
Eric: Not really - it was nineteen and a half years before he realized you aren’t supposed to blow into it.
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“Who is there that in logical words can express the effect music has on us.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
Wesley: Why did the music teacher need a ladder?
Leslie: To reach the high notes.
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“Today’s music has all the variety of a jackhammer.” -Gregory Benford (born 1941): “The Sigma Structure Symphony” (2012), reprinted in Paula Guran, editor: “Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries & Lore” (2017), page 357
Martha: What comes before a tuba?
Bertha: A one-ba.
Martha: What comes after a tuba?
Bertha: A three-ba.
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“The great object of music is to touch the heart.” -Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (also known as Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (1714 - 1788))
“There is nothing to it. You only have to hit the right notes at the right time and the instrument plays itself.” -J. S. Bach (Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)): as quoted in K. Geiringer: “The Bach Family” (1954), ‘Of the Organ’
Among the fun and unusual musical instruments are didgeridoos, kazoos, pots and pans, slide whistles, washboards, wooden spoons, zinks (cornets), and zithers.
Kevin: What instrument plays only sour notes?
Marvin: A pickle-o.
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“Of all the noises, I think music the least disagreeable.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): as quoted in the “Morning Chronicle” (16 August 1816)
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels: in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): “The Opera” (1852)
“The hardest thing in the world is to start an orchestra, and the next hardest, to stop it.” -Hans Richter (1843 - 1916)
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“I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs, and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880)): “The Mill on the Floss” (1860), Book VI, chapter vi
Austrian composer Joseph Haydn composed his Quartet Number 49 in D-major for two violins, viola and violoncello, in the year 1785. For the most part, it is a thoughtful and serious work, but in Opus 50, Number 6, a frog can be heard croaking loudly, even stridently, in sounds produced by playing the same notes alternately on two neighboring strings. This part of the set is popularly known as ‘The Frog.’
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Harmony.
Harmony, who?
Harmony more jokes like these can a person take?
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“Long before there was human music, the harmony and rhythm of nature, such as falling rain (rhythm section), wind whispering in the trees and rocks (wind instruments), and pounding thunder (percussion instruments), all soothed the savage beast.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Clarinet players
Are smarter than trombonists
Because they can reed
-Guy Ben-Moshe
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“Musick is the thing of the world that I love most.” -Samuel Pepys (1633 - 1703): “Diary of Samuel Pepys,” ‘July 30, 1666’
“. . . music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life . . .” [translation to English]
“. . . die Musik wäscht ihnen den Alltagsstaub von der Seele . . .” [original German]
-Berthold Auerbach (1812 - 1882): “Auf der Höhe” (English: “On the Heights”) (1866) novel
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“I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.” -Dizzy Gillespie (John Birks ‘Dizzy’ Gillespie (1917 - 1993))
Marla: Why did the punk rocker take a pen and paper onstage?
Darla: He wanted to draw a big crowd.
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“Music is a part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.” -Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (about C.E. 480 - about C.E. 524): “De Institutione Musica”
“Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it even if we so desired.” -Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (C.E. 475 - C.E. 523)
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The Tutor
A Tutor who tooted the flute
Tried to teach two young tooters to toot.
Said the two to the Tutor,
“Is it harder to toot, or
To tutor two tooters to toot?”
By Carolyn Wells (Carolyn Wells Houghton (1862 - 1942))
“Give me the making of the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.” -Andrew Fletcher (1655 - 1716): “Conversation Concerning a Right Regulation of Government for the Common Good of Mankind” (1703)
Jessica: What kind of sound comes from a refrigerator with a built-in stereo?
Jillian: Very cool music.
Adolphe Sax was born in Belgium in the early nineteenth century. He grew up accident prone: He was struck on the head by a brick, swallowed a needle, fell down a flight of stairs, toppled himself onto a burning stove, and accidentally drank sulfuric acid. None of this, however, prevented him from perfecting, in 1835, a wind instrument combining the reed mouthpiece of a clarinet with a bent conical tube of metal, equipped with finger keys. In his honor, it is called the saxophone.
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There’s music in the sighing of a reed;
There’s music in the gushing of a rill;
There’s music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
-George Gordon Byron (also known as Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)): “Don Juan” (1818 - 1824), Canto XV, Stanza 5
Two musicians were walking down the street, and one said to the other, “Was that a piccolo I saw you with last night?” The other replied, “That was no piccolo, that was my fife.”
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” -Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 - 2014))
Oboe: An English tramp.
Dancer: Say, can’t you stretch the music a little longer - just a dance or two more?
Band Leader: Sorry, sir, this isn’t a rubber band.
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“I believe that the use of noise to make music will continue and increase until we reach a music produced through the aid of electrical instruments.” -John Cage (John Milton Cage, Junior (1912 - 1992)): “The Future of Music: Credo” (1937)
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Harmony.
Harmony, who?
Harmony more jokes like these can a person take?
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“Long before there was human music, the harmony and rhythm of nature, such as falling rain (rhythm section), wind whispering in the trees and rocks (wind instruments), and pounding thunder (percussion instruments), all soothed the savage beast.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Clarinet players
Are smarter than trombonists
Because they can reed
-Guy Ben-Moshe
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“Musick is the thing of the world that I love most.” -Samuel Pepys (1633 - 1703): “Diary of Samuel Pepys,” ‘July 30, 1666’
“. . . music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life . . .” [translation to English]
“. . . die Musik wäscht ihnen den Alltagsstaub von der Seele . . .” [original German]
-Berthold Auerbach (1812 - 1882): “Auf der Höhe” (English: “On the Heights”) (1866) novel
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“I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.” -Dizzy Gillespie (John Birks ‘Dizzy’ Gillespie (1917 - 1993))
Marla: Why did the punk rocker take a pen and paper onstage?
Darla: He wanted to draw a big crowd.
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“Music is a part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.” -Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (about C.E. 480 - about C.E. 524): “De Institutione Musica”
“Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it even if we so desired.” -Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (C.E. 475 - C.E. 523)
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The Tutor
A Tutor who tooted the flute
Tried to teach two young tooters to toot.
Said the two to the Tutor,
“Is it harder to toot, or
To tutor two tooters to toot?”
By Carolyn Wells (Carolyn Wells Houghton (1862 - 1942))
“Give me the making of the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.” -Andrew Fletcher (1655 - 1716): “Conversation Concerning a Right Regulation of Government for the Common Good of Mankind” (1703)
Jessica: What kind of sound comes from a refrigerator with a built-in stereo?
Jillian: Very cool music.
Adolphe Sax was born in Belgium in the early nineteenth century. He grew up accident prone: He was struck on the head by a brick, swallowed a needle, fell down a flight of stairs, toppled himself onto a burning stove, and accidentally drank sulfuric acid. None of this, however, prevented him from perfecting, in 1835, a wind instrument combining the reed mouthpiece of a clarinet with a bent conical tube of metal, equipped with finger keys. In his honor, it is called the saxophone.
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There’s music in the sighing of a reed;
There’s music in the gushing of a rill;
There’s music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
-George Gordon Byron (also known as Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)): “Don Juan” (1818 - 1824), Canto XV, Stanza 5
Two musicians were walking down the street, and one said to the other, “Was that a piccolo I saw you with last night?” The other replied, “That was no piccolo, that was my fife.”
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” -Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 - 2014))
Oboe: An English tramp.
Dancer: Say, can’t you stretch the music a little longer - just a dance or two more?
Band Leader: Sorry, sir, this isn’t a rubber band.
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“I believe that the use of noise to make music will continue and increase until we reach a music produced through the aid of electrical instruments.” -John Cage (John Milton Cage, Junior (1912 - 1992)): “The Future of Music: Credo” (1937)
“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.” -Thomas Fuller (about 1608 - 1661): “The History of the Worthies of England” (1662), ‘Musicians’
“Music is what feelings sound like.” -Author Unknown
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Sign on a music shop door: Gone Chopin. Back in a Minuet.
“Music is a friend of labor, for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker.” -William Green (1873 - 1952)
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“Brass bands are all very well in their place: outdoors and several miles away.” -Thomas Beecham (1897 - 1961)
“Music is medicine to man.” -Author Unknown: inscription on Bell Number 4 at Saint Mary’s Church in Harrow-on-the-Hill, England
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“If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.): “Complete Works of Aristotle,” Volume 1
“Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.” -John Chrysostom (about C.E. 345 - C.E. 407)
Suggested Minimum Safe Distances Between Street Musicians And Audiences
- Violinist: 25 feet.
- Bad violinist: 50 feet.
- Tone-deaf guitar player who knows 3 chords: 75 feet.
- 15 year-old electric guitar player with a Nirvana complex: 100 feet.
- Accordionist: 60 miles.
- Bagpipe player: 2 continents.
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“I went to watch Pavarotti once. He doesn’t like it when you join in.” -Mick Miller
“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” -Jean Paul Richter (pseudonym of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763 - 1825)): “Titan” (1800 - 1803)
If you wanted to learn to play a musical instrument, which one would you choose, and why?
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“Music doth extenuate fears, furies, appeaseth cruelty, abateth heaviness, and to such as are wakeful it causeth quiet rest; it cures all irksomeness and heaviness of soul.” -Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (also known simply as Cassiodorus (about C.E. 485 - about C.E. 585)): “The Divine Letters” (about 550)
“Music: A beautiful succession of sounds.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. If heed is not paid to this, it is not true music but a diabolical bawling and twanging.” -J. S. Bach (Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750))
Musical instruments have been traditionally grouped - for the most part - into one of four ‘Families,’ based on how they produce sound. The families are the Brasswind instruments, the Percussion instruments, the String instruments, and the Woodwind instruments. Additional families, including the Keyboard instruments and the Electronic instruments, have been suggested more recently. A few instruments, such as the piano, do not fit neatly into just one family group. The piano has strings that vibrate like the Stringed instruments, and hammers that strike like the Percussion instruments.
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“When you are about thirty-five years old, something terrible always happens to music.” -Steve Race
Brasswind instruments are made of brass or other metals, and make sound when air blows through them. The musician’s lips buzz against the mouthpiece, as though making a raspberry noise. Air then vibrates inside the instrument to produce sound. The Brasswind Family includes bugles, cornets, French horns, sousaphones, trombones, trumpets, tubas, and other instruments. Some people shorten ‘Brasswind’ to simply ‘Brass.’
The definition of a flute, according to David W. Barber in his book “A Musician’s Dictionary” is as follows: “A sophisticated pea-shooter with a range up to five hundred yards and deadly accuracy in close quarters. Blown transversely to confuse the enemy, it can be dismantled into three small pieces, for easy concealment.”
The human body can make a wide range of different vocal and percussive sounds. The vocalizations can include singing, chanting, humming, and yodeling. Percussives include clapping the hands, clicking the tongue, and snapping the fingers.
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Who hears music feels his solitude
Peopled at once.
-Robert Browning (1812 - 1889): “Balaustions Adventure” (1871), line 323 and 324
“Music is what feelings sound like.” -Author Unknown
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Sign on a music shop door: Gone Chopin. Back in a Minuet.
“Music is a friend of labor, for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker.” -William Green (1873 - 1952)
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“Brass bands are all very well in their place: outdoors and several miles away.” -Thomas Beecham (1897 - 1961)
“Music is medicine to man.” -Author Unknown: inscription on Bell Number 4 at Saint Mary’s Church in Harrow-on-the-Hill, England
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“If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.): “Complete Works of Aristotle,” Volume 1
“Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.” -John Chrysostom (about C.E. 345 - C.E. 407)
Suggested Minimum Safe Distances Between Street Musicians And Audiences
- Violinist: 25 feet.
- Bad violinist: 50 feet.
- Tone-deaf guitar player who knows 3 chords: 75 feet.
- 15 year-old electric guitar player with a Nirvana complex: 100 feet.
- Accordionist: 60 miles.
- Bagpipe player: 2 continents.
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“I went to watch Pavarotti once. He doesn’t like it when you join in.” -Mick Miller
“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” -Jean Paul Richter (pseudonym of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763 - 1825)): “Titan” (1800 - 1803)
If you wanted to learn to play a musical instrument, which one would you choose, and why?
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“Music doth extenuate fears, furies, appeaseth cruelty, abateth heaviness, and to such as are wakeful it causeth quiet rest; it cures all irksomeness and heaviness of soul.” -Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (also known simply as Cassiodorus (about C.E. 485 - about C.E. 585)): “The Divine Letters” (about 550)
“Music: A beautiful succession of sounds.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. If heed is not paid to this, it is not true music but a diabolical bawling and twanging.” -J. S. Bach (Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750))
Musical instruments have been traditionally grouped - for the most part - into one of four ‘Families,’ based on how they produce sound. The families are the Brasswind instruments, the Percussion instruments, the String instruments, and the Woodwind instruments. Additional families, including the Keyboard instruments and the Electronic instruments, have been suggested more recently. A few instruments, such as the piano, do not fit neatly into just one family group. The piano has strings that vibrate like the Stringed instruments, and hammers that strike like the Percussion instruments.
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“When you are about thirty-five years old, something terrible always happens to music.” -Steve Race
Brasswind instruments are made of brass or other metals, and make sound when air blows through them. The musician’s lips buzz against the mouthpiece, as though making a raspberry noise. Air then vibrates inside the instrument to produce sound. The Brasswind Family includes bugles, cornets, French horns, sousaphones, trombones, trumpets, tubas, and other instruments. Some people shorten ‘Brasswind’ to simply ‘Brass.’
The definition of a flute, according to David W. Barber in his book “A Musician’s Dictionary” is as follows: “A sophisticated pea-shooter with a range up to five hundred yards and deadly accuracy in close quarters. Blown transversely to confuse the enemy, it can be dismantled into three small pieces, for easy concealment.”
The human body can make a wide range of different vocal and percussive sounds. The vocalizations can include singing, chanting, humming, and yodeling. Percussives include clapping the hands, clicking the tongue, and snapping the fingers.
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Who hears music feels his solitude
Peopled at once.
-Robert Browning (1812 - 1889): “Balaustions Adventure” (1871), line 323 and 324
String instruments create sound with strings. The strings may be plucked, as in a guitar or harp; bowed, as with a cello or a violin; or struck, as with a dulcimer. When the strings vibrate, they create sound. In addition to the instruments already mentioned, in the String Family are the banjos, basses, electric guitars, fiddles, ukuleles, violas, zithers, and other similar instruments.
Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
And all of Heaven we have below.
-Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719): “Song for St Cectufs Day” (1692), stanza 3
“I have always loved music; who so has skill in this art is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools; a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him; neither should we ordain young men as preachers unless they have been well exercised in music.” -Martin Luther (1483 - 1546): “Table Talk” (1569)
Daren: What does a musician use to clean his teeth?
Karen: A tootbrush and a tuba tootpaste.
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Buffy: How do you fix a broken tuba?
Dottie: With a tuba glue.
Music is in all growing things;
And underneath the silky wings
Of smallest insects there is stirred
A pulse of air that must be heard;
Earth’s silence lives, and throbs, and sings.
-George Parsons Lathrop (1851 - 1898): “Music And Growth”
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“Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.” -Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 - 1716)
License plate seen on a professional bass clarinetist car: BSSCLRNT.
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“Never forget that music is much too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.” -Robert Fulghum (Robert Lee Fulghum (born 1937))
Percussion instruments make sound when they are struck, shaken, rubbed, scratched, or are otherwise subject to mechanical action. The Percussion Family includes bass drums, chimes, cowbells, cymbals, glockenspiels (bells), maracas, marimbas, snare drums, tam-tams (gongs), tambourines, timpani (kettle) drums, triangles, wood blocks, xylophones, and some other instruments. Grand pianos (uprights) can be included in this family, although they can also be included in the Strings and the Keyboards.
“If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum.” -Author Unknown
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“‘Ah, music,’ he said, wiping his eyes. ‘A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!’” -J. K. Rowling (pseudonym of Joanne ‘Jo’ Rowling (born 1965)): “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” book (2005) and film (2009), words of character Albus Dumbledore
Good Reasons To Play The Tuba
8. People like shiny objects.
7. It is better than playing bagpipes.
6. When you play, people listen.
5. During rehearsal, you get to sit in the back of the room.
4. During marching practice, you can use the bell to block out the Sun.
3. People hold doors open for you.
2. You don’t have to wear those silly hats.
1. You will never be blamed for being the one with the squeaky reed.
“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.” -Bill Nye (Edgar Wilson ‘Bill’ Nye (1850 - 1896)), referring to Richard Wagner
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“The dulcimer is the wild animal of the musical kingdom. It can be anything: bagpipe, guitar, fiddle, banjo, slide guitar, harpsichord, mandolin, but mostly itself, a droning, angelic power chord of delicacy that lives in its own world, in tune with its surroundings at a level that the well-tempered revolution could never quite tame.” -David Schnaufer (1952 - 2006) ( 2005)
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“An agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.” -J. S. Bach (Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)), a definition of music: as quoted in Derek Watson: “Music Quotations” (1911)
“Music doth extenuate fears, furies, appeaseth cruelty, abateth heaviness, and to such as are wakeful it causeth quiet rest; it cures all irksomeness and heaviness of soul.” -Cassiodorus (about C.E. 485 - about C.E. 585)
“Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.” -Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
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Woodwind instruments produce sound when air (wind) is blown inside. Air might be blown across an edge, as with a flute; between a reed and a surface, as with a clarinet; or between two reeds, as with a bassoon. Sound is made when air vibrates inside the instruments. Other instruments belonging to the Woodwind Family include alto clarinets, alto saxophones, baritone saxophones, bass clarinets, English horns, oboes, piccolos, recorders, soprano saxophones, and tenor saxophones.
Music’s force can tame the furious beast;
Can make the wolf or foaming boar restrain
His rage; the lion drops his crested mane
Attentive to the song.
-Matthew Prior (1664 - 1721): as published in John Wesley (1703 - 1791): “A Collection of Moral and Sacred Poems From the Most Celebrated English Authors” (1744), Volume 1
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Keyboard instruments produce sound electronically, with the exception of upright pianos such as the Grand Piano, which can be included both in this group and in the Percussion Family, and organs, some of which could fit into the Brasswind or Woodwind instruments Families. Among the other members of the Keyboards are electronic keyboards and synthesizers. Electronic instruments can mimic the sounds of any musical instruments and can make their own unique sounds.
“Humming is mumbling musically.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Music is the universal language, because it is the language of the universe.” -Charles F. Glassman: “Brain Drain: The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life” (2009)
“Music is the eye of the ear.” -Thomas Draxe (birth year unknown - 1618): “Bibliotheca” (1616)
James: How many jazz musicians does it take to change a light bulb?
Kirk: None - jazz musicians can’t afford light bulbs.
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One of the greatest conductors of all time was Arturo Toscanini, whose skill was shown during a rehearsal of Claude Debussy’s “La Mer.” He wanted to achieve an especially spiritual effect in one passage. His vocabulary in English was not vast, and he was at a loss for words to describe exactly what he wanted the orchestra to do. He took a large white silk handkerchief from his coat pocket and threw it high into the air. Every player in the group was mesmerized as the handkerchief floated softly and hypnotically to the floor. “There,” Toscanini said, smiling, “play it like that!”
“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.” -Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
Life has its music; let us seek a way
Not to jangle the chords whereon we play.
-Archilochus of Paros
We are MFOL! . . . please be advised that some of the humor that follows may be a little offbeat . . .
Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
And all of Heaven we have below.
-Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719): “Song for St Cectufs Day” (1692), stanza 3
“I have always loved music; who so has skill in this art is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools; a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him; neither should we ordain young men as preachers unless they have been well exercised in music.” -Martin Luther (1483 - 1546): “Table Talk” (1569)
Daren: What does a musician use to clean his teeth?
Karen: A tootbrush and a tuba tootpaste.
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Buffy: How do you fix a broken tuba?
Dottie: With a tuba glue.
Music is in all growing things;
And underneath the silky wings
Of smallest insects there is stirred
A pulse of air that must be heard;
Earth’s silence lives, and throbs, and sings.
-George Parsons Lathrop (1851 - 1898): “Music And Growth”
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Poems And Poetry Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
“Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.” -Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 - 1716)
License plate seen on a professional bass clarinetist car: BSSCLRNT.
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“Never forget that music is much too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.” -Robert Fulghum (Robert Lee Fulghum (born 1937))
Percussion instruments make sound when they are struck, shaken, rubbed, scratched, or are otherwise subject to mechanical action. The Percussion Family includes bass drums, chimes, cowbells, cymbals, glockenspiels (bells), maracas, marimbas, snare drums, tam-tams (gongs), tambourines, timpani (kettle) drums, triangles, wood blocks, xylophones, and some other instruments. Grand pianos (uprights) can be included in this family, although they can also be included in the Strings and the Keyboards.
“If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum.” -Author Unknown
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Resenting And Forgiving Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
“‘Ah, music,’ he said, wiping his eyes. ‘A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!’” -J. K. Rowling (pseudonym of Joanne ‘Jo’ Rowling (born 1965)): “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” book (2005) and film (2009), words of character Albus Dumbledore
Good Reasons To Play The Tuba
8. People like shiny objects.
7. It is better than playing bagpipes.
6. When you play, people listen.
5. During rehearsal, you get to sit in the back of the room.
4. During marching practice, you can use the bell to block out the Sun.
3. People hold doors open for you.
2. You don’t have to wear those silly hats.
1. You will never be blamed for being the one with the squeaky reed.
“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.” -Bill Nye (Edgar Wilson ‘Bill’ Nye (1850 - 1896)), referring to Richard Wagner
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Criticism And Criticizing Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
“The dulcimer is the wild animal of the musical kingdom. It can be anything: bagpipe, guitar, fiddle, banjo, slide guitar, harpsichord, mandolin, but mostly itself, a droning, angelic power chord of delicacy that lives in its own world, in tune with its surroundings at a level that the well-tempered revolution could never quite tame.” -David Schnaufer (1952 - 2006) ( 2005)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read The Written Word And Writing Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
“An agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.” -J. S. Bach (Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)), a definition of music: as quoted in Derek Watson: “Music Quotations” (1911)
“Music doth extenuate fears, furies, appeaseth cruelty, abateth heaviness, and to such as are wakeful it causeth quiet rest; it cures all irksomeness and heaviness of soul.” -Cassiodorus (about C.E. 485 - about C.E. 585)
“Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.” -Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Words Heal Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
Woodwind instruments produce sound when air (wind) is blown inside. Air might be blown across an edge, as with a flute; between a reed and a surface, as with a clarinet; or between two reeds, as with a bassoon. Sound is made when air vibrates inside the instruments. Other instruments belonging to the Woodwind Family include alto clarinets, alto saxophones, baritone saxophones, bass clarinets, English horns, oboes, piccolos, recorders, soprano saxophones, and tenor saxophones.
Music’s force can tame the furious beast;
Can make the wolf or foaming boar restrain
His rage; the lion drops his crested mane
Attentive to the song.
-Matthew Prior (1664 - 1721): as published in John Wesley (1703 - 1791): “A Collection of Moral and Sacred Poems From the Most Celebrated English Authors” (1744), Volume 1
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Animals And Animal Natures Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
Keyboard instruments produce sound electronically, with the exception of upright pianos such as the Grand Piano, which can be included both in this group and in the Percussion Family, and organs, some of which could fit into the Brasswind or Woodwind instruments Families. Among the other members of the Keyboards are electronic keyboards and synthesizers. Electronic instruments can mimic the sounds of any musical instruments and can make their own unique sounds.
“Humming is mumbling musically.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Music is the universal language, because it is the language of the universe.” -Charles F. Glassman: “Brain Drain: The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life” (2009)
“Music is the eye of the ear.” -Thomas Draxe (birth year unknown - 1618): “Bibliotheca” (1616)
James: How many jazz musicians does it take to change a light bulb?
Kirk: None - jazz musicians can’t afford light bulbs.
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Light Bulbs And Artificial Lighting Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
One of the greatest conductors of all time was Arturo Toscanini, whose skill was shown during a rehearsal of Claude Debussy’s “La Mer.” He wanted to achieve an especially spiritual effect in one passage. His vocabulary in English was not vast, and he was at a loss for words to describe exactly what he wanted the orchestra to do. He took a large white silk handkerchief from his coat pocket and threw it high into the air. Every player in the group was mesmerized as the handkerchief floated softly and hypnotically to the floor. “There,” Toscanini said, smiling, “play it like that!”
“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.” -Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
Life has its music; let us seek a way
Not to jangle the chords whereon we play.
-Archilochus of Paros
We are MFOL! . . . please be advised that some of the humor that follows may be a little offbeat . . .
