Music is propelled forward in time by:

• harmony
• rhythm
• texture
• timbre

A succession of single tones or pitches perceived as a unit is called:

• an interval
• a melody
• a harmony
• a chord

The quality of a work of art that represents structure or shape refers to its:

• themes
• melody
• form
• harmony

The preservation of music without the help of written notation is called: 

• crossover
• modulation
• oral transmission
• retrograde inversion

The early polyphonic genre that resulted from the addition of texts to all voices was called: 

• organum
• motet
• duplum
• triplum

Music of the 14th century under-went a change of style that became known as:

• the Ars antiqua
• the Ars nova
• the Renaissance
• Notre Dame Polyphony

Medieval instruments can be divided into bas and haut, meaning:

• high and low
• string and wind
• soft and loud
• folk and aristocratic

Which of the following was a leader in the Protestant Reformation?

• Palestrina
• Martin Luther
• St. Ignatius Loyola
• Hildegard

The primary tonality used during the Baroque was:

• modal
• atonal
• major-minor
• chromatic

The text of an opera is called:

• the lyrics
• the play
• the script
• the libretto