What are musical sounds represented by?

What is the term used for the resting place at the end of a musical phrase?

What is the distance between the highest and lowest tones of a melody called?

What propels music forward in time?

What is the basic unit of rhythm that divides time into equal segments?

What is the first accented beat of a measure called?

What is a combination of three or more tones that constitutes a single block of harmony known as?

What is an interval of eight notes called?

What is the first note of the scale referred to as?

How is the octave divided in Western music?

What type of music is based on the seven tones of a major or minor scale?

What is the term for a melody combined with an ornamented version of itself, often heard in jazz?

What is a composition with strict imitation throughout called?

What is the term for the quality of a work of art that refers to its structure and shape?

What is the rate of speed at which a piece of music is played known as?

What is the degree of loudness or softness in music called?

In what language are tempo markings generally given?

What are rhymed units in poetry called?

What does the term 'timbre' refer to in music?

Which of the following is NOT a standard range of the human voice?

What type of instruments produce sound from a vibrating string?

Which instrument family is NOT a part of the Western orchestra's four main groups?

Which brass instrument is sometimes described as possessing a brilliant timbre similar to a trumpet?

What is the approximate time frame of the Baroque Period?

What is the primary tonality used during the Baroque period?

What is the canticle of Mary generally known as?

What is a drama that is sung called?

What language are the texts of Baroque chorales generally written in?

Which musical form was George Frederic Handel considered a master of?

From where do the stories for oratorios generally come?

What is the name of the oratorio composed by Handel?

What is the term used for the Puritan practice of singing that is based on call and response in seventeenth-century New England?

Which instrument is the soloist in "Spring" from The Four Seasons?

What is the typical size of a Classical orchestra?

Which section of the Classical orchestra is considered the ensemble's nucleus?

What is a small ensemble of two to about ten players with one player to a part called?

Which instruments were important keyboard instruments during the Baroque Era, NOT including the piano?

What is the German translation for "A Little Night Music"?

What form is the first movement of a Classical concerto typically in?

Which instrument was the most popular solo instrument in the Classical concerto?

How can Ludwig van Beethoven’s temperament be best described?

How did Beethoven support himself?

What was Beethoven’s own instrument for which he wrote numerous concertos and sonatas?

How many movements does Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 have?

What is the term for a musical setting of the Mass for the Dead?

What was Mozart's last work, which was incomplete at his death?

Who were the favorite Romantic poets of the composers of Lieder according to the study guide?

What is the German term for an art song?

What is a song cycle?

Approximately how many songs did Franz Schubert compose?

What is Stephen Foster best remembered for?

What is the most important keyboard instrument of the Romantic period?

Which composer is known as "the poet of the piano"?

Where did Frederic Chopin spend most of his productive life?

Why was Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel discouraged from pursuing a career as a composer?

What is Louis Moreau Gottschalk known for?

Who is considered the first great exponent of musical Romanticism in France?

What inspired Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique?

Which country did the "Mighty Five" composers originate from?

How is Brahms often described in terms of his musical style?

What is Italian comic opera called?

Which country is NOT one of the national styles of opera development mentioned in the text?

What did Wagner call his operas?

Which two countries were the principal centers of nineteenth-century ballet?

Who was Tchaikovsky's principal patron?

Which opera was NOT composed by Puccini?

What is the name of the new style created by Schoenberg where vocal melodies were spoken rather than sung?

Which composer is known as the "King of Ragtime"?

Which of the following is NOT a style of music Igor Stravinsky wrote in?

Which city is considered the birthplace of jazz music?

Who composed the opera Wozzeck?

Which composer is recognized for incorporating African American blues and jazz styles into his compositions?

What is the name of George Gershwin's folk opera?

Which composer traveled around Hungary collecting peasant songs with Zoltan Kodaly?

Which of the following works was NOT composed by Silvestre Revueltas?

What style did Charles Ives incorporate into his work entitled Country Band March?

For whom did Aaron Copland compose Appalachian Spring?

Which early twentieth-century style sought to revive certain principles and forms of earlier music?

What is John Cage's "Sonatas and Interludes" a work for?

What is considered America's unique contribution to theater?

Stephen Sondheim is known for being an American composer of what type of music?

For what is Bernstein known to have risen to prominence?

What is "West Side Story" a modern-day musical setting of?

Which instrument is featured in "Electric Counterpoint"?

What is the setting of John Corigliano's "Prelude: Mr. Tambourine Man"?

What inspired Jennifer Higdon to title her work "blue cathedral"?

What type of music is called source music?

Which of the following film scores was NOT composed by John Williams?

What genre of music did rock and roll emerge from?

Who is considered to be "the father of soul"?

Which instrument is featured as a solo in Tan Dun's score for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"?

For which event was Tavener's "Song for Athene" performed?