Like Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composer ____________ was financially supported by the wealthy widow Nadezhda von Meck, allowing him to tour Italy, Russia, and Vienna.

In the 1930s, _________ were mid-to large-size ensembles that played swing. 

Many artists continue the tradition that started in the Romantic era where they dedicate their album to a single theme (like a break-up, a special time in their life, a traumatic event, etc.) This is known as a ____________, or a group of songs that treat a single theme or tell a story. 

Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 is an example of a ___________ which is a one-movement program piece written for orchestra that portrays images of a place, story, novel, landscape, or non-musical source or image.

Jazz was the thread that wove the new and diverse cultures together, and this music was _________, meaning that much of the music was created on the spot during performances. 

If silence is the “absence of sound,” then ____________ is “indiscriminate” or “indistinguishable” sound, in which it is impossible to tell the pitches or what instruments are playing.

Arnold Schoenberg is known for creating and composing ____________ music, which is where he takes the twelve notes of the chromatic scale and organized them into scale units.

What part of the neuron is a process that can conduct action potentials?

Type II hormone receptors:

Predict the rank order of the following locations from lowest species richness to highest species richness, using the latitudinal gradient of species richness to form your prediction: