(hour 2) Discuss chamber music involving the piano and wind instruments.  Please include combinations of wind instruments and string instruments with piano, and music written just for piano and winds.  This can include significant sonatas, as well as trios, quartets, quintets, and sextets.  Try to include composers from at least three stylistic periods.  You may even include pieces for piano and large wind ensemble but focus principally on chamber music.  Or  Discuss the two piano concerti of Johannes Brahms making specific references to individual movements in each work as well as details of the piano writing, orchestration, and other features you have discovered.   

(allow 20 minutes for this section) Choosing from a variety of styles and periods, please name 2 song cycles for soprano, 2 song cycles for mezzo, contralto or countertenor, 2 song cycles for tenor, and 2 song cycles for baritone, bass baritone or bass.  Please do not list duplications. Provide the name of the poet, the number of songs, and a brief description of what each cycle is about.  For each cycle, discuss the musical style of composition, the treatment of the piano and the voice, and name one song from each cycle. 

Baking soda is a leavening in baked goods. It is a common ingredient in quick breads, cupcakes and from-scratch pancakes, to name a few. Then Arm and Hammer began to market its boxes of Baking Soda as a refrigerator deodorizer. An open box of baking soda will absorb smells in the refrigerator.  This is an example of what kind of transformation?

First Jose calculates the absolute minimum amount he needs to earn to cover his living expenses.  Then he calculates the maximum amount he is willing to lose if his venture fails.  He uses those two amounts help to decide which of several different possible opportunities he will pursue.  He is using which effectual decision-making tool?

What is the primary focus of traditional managers when launching a new product?

Which principal part/dictionary listing of a verb is the infinitive form? For example: ambulo, ambulare, ambulavi – walk

Match each vocab word below to its correct meaning.

Volubilis respondet, “mihi non placet! ego sum coquus; tu es servus ignavus. abi! hīc manere non potes.” Bregans, postquam e culina exiit, Varicam conspexit. vilicus cum multis servis in fundō laborabat. vilicus servique Bregantem non viderunt. ille igitur post horreum cucurrit, ubi nemo eum videre poterat. subito Loquax et Anti-Loquax e villa venerunt. gemini Bregantem salutaverunt. “salve, Bregans! cur tu non laboras?” “Varica me ad villam misit,” respondit Bregans. “ego servis cibum paro.” “cur nullum cibum habes? cur non es in culina?” rogavit Loquax. “tu es servus mendax et ignavus! Salvius et Varica semper te punire volunt. Question: What is the subject of the verb ‘habes’?

Match the irregular verb forms below to their correct translations.

Volubilis respondet, “mihi non placet! ego sum coquus; tu es servus ignavus. abi! hīc manere non potes.” Bregans, postquam e culina exiit, Varicam conspexit. vilicus cum multis servis in fundō laborabat. vilicus servique Bregantem non viderunt. ille igitur post horreum cucurrit, ubi nemo eum videre poterat. subito Loquax et Anti-Loquax e villa venerunt. gemini Bregantem salutaverunt. “salve, Bregans! cur tu non laboras?” “Varica me ad villam misit,” respondit Bregans. “ego servis cibum paro.” “cur nullum cibum habes? cur non es in culina?” rogavit Loquax. “tu es servus mendax et ignavus! Salvius et Varica semper te punire volunt. Question: What is Varica doing when Bregans sees him?