A musical thought, constructing a musical sentence.

Musical material of interest that is the most important and memorable, involving the succession of pitches that fall into units, one after another, of completeness and can contain emotion and meaning for the listener.

Name a non-melodic (non-pitched) percussion instrument (do not say “drum” – be more specific).

A consistent pattern of stressed and unstressed beats with a measure.

Name a brass instrument.

An instrument that allows a musician to accurately establish the speed of a beat by grouping them in units of beats per minute.

Because of the resulting economic depression, the price of labor was drastically reduced in the aftermath of the Black Death

Anything that has the ability to produce a pitch.

The progression of logically and exactly ordered events through time.

The bubonic plague originated in