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Musical Jokes
Even though classical music is sometimes referred to as "serious music," a lot of times it just isn't. Serious, that is -- classical composers wrote some very funny music.
1. Which family of musicians liked to write musical jokes?
Bach
Mozart
Strauss
2.Who wrote the Surprise Symphony?
Franz Joseph Haydn
Robert Schumann
Franz Schubert
Aaron Copland
3. Peter Schickele plays musical jokes under the name of
Chris Rock
Papa Haydn
P.D.Q. Bach
Flanders and Swan
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