One of the greatest of all jazz improvisers and a towering figure among bebop musicians was the saxophonist _______.

While not rejecting any influence, Béla Bartók emphasized that the strongest influence on his music was _______.

To what does ostinato refer?

Three big influences on early jazz were band music, ragtime, and ________.

The most important impressionist composer was ______.

A great twentieth-century composer who was also a leading ethnomusicologist of his native land was ______.

Around 1940, John Cage invented the prepared piano, a(n) ______.

Impressionist painters were primarily concerned with the effect of light, color, and ______.

In chance music, what does the composer do?

Impressionism in music is characterized by _______.