An eighth rest lasts for 1/2 beat of _______.

American composer and conductor John Phillip Sousa (1854-1932) wrote 136 _______.

Known as "The March King," Sousa wrote The Stars and Stripes _______, Semper _______, The Washington ____ and many other patriotic works.

Sousa's band performed all over the _______, and his fame helped boost the popularity of bands in America.

"O Canada," formerly known as the "________ Song," was first performed during 1880 in French Canada.

Robert Stanley Weir translated the _______ language version in 1908.

O Canada was not adopted as the national anthem of Canada until 1980, ___ _______ years after its premeire.

Two notes that are written differently, but sound the same (and played with the same fingering) are called _________

On a _____ keyboard, each black key is both a flat and a sharp.

Chromatic notes are altered with sharps, flats and natural signs which are not in the key _________.

The smallest distance between two notes is a ____ step.

A scale made up of consecutive half-steps is called a ________ scale.

French Composer Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) wrote music for virtually every medium: ______, suites, symphonies and chamber works.

The " ______ Dance" is one of the main themes from his famous opera Samson et Delilah.

Samson et Delilah was written in the same year that Thomas Edison invented the ________ - 1877

German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) is considered to be one of the world's greatest composers despite becoming completely deaf in 1802. How old was Beethoven when he became deaf?

Although Beethoven could not hear his music the way we can, he could "hear" it in his _____.

As a testament to his greatness, his Symphony No. 9 was performed as the finale to the ceremony celebrating the reunification of _______ in 1990.

Russian composer Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky (1840-____) wrote six symphonies and hundreds of other works including The Nutcracker ballet.

Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture and Capriccio Italien were both written in ____, the year after Thomas Edison developed the practical electric light bulb.