What additional musical element did the 1940s big bands add to their sounds that was no doubt very popular with radio listeners? How did this eventually cause the end of the big-band era?

What new music notation development allowed composers to start writing complex polyphonic music in the late Middle Ages?

What important shift occurred in the 1940s between songwriters and performers? How did this come about?

Which of the following were NOT technologies that allowed for the spread of popular music styles in the 1920s?

What is the genre (type) of this selection?

What was the Renaissance philosophical movement that sought reconcile the received wisdom from the Church and that of Ancient Greece?

_____ was America’s first successful pop song writer. He composed such famous tunes at “Camptown Races” and “O Susanna!” but also love songs like “No One to Love.”

Renaissance sacred music is mostly in ____ musical texture. 

Since the Industrial Age, popular songs were written to texts that appealed to the ______ Class.

Where did the Troubadours operate?