Which of the following excerpts from the “Hallelujah Chorus” of Handel’s Messiah features imitative polyphony, with the voices building from lowest to highest?Excerpt 1 Excerpt 2

Compare the following excerpts. Which features a swing-style band (or “big band,” as it is commonly called)?Excerpt 1 Excerpt 2

Copland’s Appalachian Spring quotes the early American tune

Who managed Jenny Lind’s 1850 American concert tour?

Which describes the musical expression of the theme in this excerpt?

How would you describe the harmonies you hear in the following excerpt?

What is the source for “How lovely is Thy dwelling place,” the text Brahms uses in the fourth movement of German Requiem?

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Choose three of the following contrapuntal devices and provide a definition that explains how each might be employed in an eighteenth-century fugue: inversion, retrograde, retrograde-inversion, augmentation, and diminution.

Which of the following excerpts—both of which are ritornellos from Vivaldi’s Spring concerto—is in a minor key?Excerpt 1 Excerpt 2