Because of their popular orientation, American bands in the late nineteenth century excluded European masterworks and cultivated more accessible, native repertoires.

In the United States, avant-garde composers of the decades after World War I were widely and most often supported by the patronage of

The improved system of connected keys and levers added to the flute in the 1840s was developed by the instrument maker

Copland’s Appalachian Spring

The years between the end of World War I and the start of World War II are

In 1829, a performance of __________ stimulated a revival of interest among musicians in its composer’s long-ignored works.

Which of the following best categorizes Tiger Rag?

In 1872 Wagner began construction of a special theater for the production of his works in the German town of

John Cage’s mature ideas about music include the proposition that

Standard blues can be twelve or sixteen bars in length.