"Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things ... make music to the Lord with the harp, with the harp and the sound of singing, with trumpets and the blast of the ram's horn - shout for joy before the Lord, the King" (vv. 1, 5-6). Music, music, music. In the words of Carlyle, "Music is well said to be the speech of angels," or if not that, the speech of those of us who would serenade the angels.

Public school music teachers compiled some answers that youngsters gave to test questions.[1]

* 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 wrot…