Identify the term used in music notation to indicate the absence of sound.

Because of its highly expressive character, this was the most important new genre to emerge during the Baroque period.

Which answer best describes a “trill”?

Beethoven’s music foreshadowed the musical style of the Romantic era. All the traits listed below are characteristic of the style of both Beethoven and the Romantic period, with the exception of:

Dissonant chords add __________ to the music.

This composer was famous as an organ virtuoso during his lifetime. He never traveled outside of his native country, Germany, and spent the last decades of his life in Leipzig as the cantor of Saint Thomas’s church and choir school. 

Identify the term that is synonymous with Gregorian chant.

The most important composer of his day, this French musician wrote the best-known work of medieval music, the Messe de Nostre Dame (Mass of Our Lady).  He was equally esteemed as a poet and his reputation in French literature is considered equal to that held in English literature by his slightly younger counterpart, Geoffrey Chaucer.

 This composition is considered the first true opera in Western music

This composer is known as the “poet of the piano” and considered a national hero in Poland. In fact, upon his death he directed his heart to be removed and buried in Poland.