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In this Silly Symphonies short, a young saxaphone from the Isle of Jazz meets up with an elegant, blue-dress-wearing violin from the Land of Symphony, which is separated only by the Sea of Discord. He falls for her, but winds up locked away in a giant metronome. War ensues between the two areas which both employ weapons of musical destruction. Like other Silly Symphonies cartoons, no dialogue is needed to convey the comedy of this charming little piece.

Mickey conducts an opera in this slow-paced short which proceeds with song and a series of gags. Pluto finds a magician's hat backstage and gets mixed up with some bunnies and birds. On stage, Donald struggles in performing a duet with Clara Cluck. Eventually, the two sets of misadventures cross paths.

This Silly Symphonies 'toon depicts night life at a cafe for bugs. There's a cricket orchestra, a spider and lady fly act, and some free-spirited insect dancing. Think of it as a forerunner to the bar scene from A Bug's Life, only with more music and a '30s Harlem flavor.

A group of barn animals feel especially musical while going about their daily business. Following the lead of a couple of romantic chickens, they join in and cluck, moo, and neigh a familiar Verdi tune.

In this color remake of a short made seven years earlier, Donald entertains a rowdy audience of mouse orphans by reciting poems and losing his cool. Goofy, Clarabelle Cow, and Horace Horsecollar fare only a bit better with their unusual dance number that follows. Then, Mickey backs up Madame Clara Cluck's clucktastic singing with his piano playing. Throughout, the orphans get increasingly violent with their favorite target, Donald.

The disc concludes with a short with much more dialogue than music, but it just so happens to be one of the funnest cartoons in this package. A distraught Daisy Duck goes to a psychiatrist to tell what has happened to her boyfriend. He had an accident and now has a world-famous singing career; his biggest hit is a mild variation of "When You Wish Upon a Star", which he performs to approving audiences. But, the problem is, he no longer remembers Daisy. The short is composed like a live action drama from its time and it works very well. In spite of a near-suicide attempt, the cartoon appears to be thankfully uncensored.

Pluto wakes up and tries to join in with the songs of nature's other creations, but his attempts only lead the others running or flying away. So he decides to sneak into a music store and when the owner goes to lunch, he discovers a surefire way to summon some pleasing musical talent. This clever cartoon was nominated for the Best Short Academy Award.

After a short sketch of the universal importance of dance in human cultural history, Goofy demonstrates the misery of those who don't master dancing to a confident level in the 20th century, the perilous techniques to learn ballroom dances and the result of all that hard footwork- more hard then it works.