The aria ___________ from the opera Turandot is about a prince named Calaf who is betrothed to the cruel princess. If she can guess his name by the next morning, then he will be killed and she can avoid marrying him. If she fails to guess his name, the two must be wed. She declares to her subjects that no one is allowed to sleep in order to guess the name

____________ was a wealthy widow who furnished Tchaikovsky (and other musicians) with financial stability, which helped him overcome his depression and continue composing. They communicated through a series of letters to one another, and this distance letter-friendship soon became one of fervent attachment. The letters would explain how he envisioned and wrote his music. 

Who was known as the “first man of jazz” and was known for improvising all of his performances in the early 1900s?

Erlkönig (Elf King) features ___________________ which is music that sounds out its meaning. In this art song, Schubert takes the changing expressive elements of the lyrics such as a galloping horse, steady reassuring tones of the father, sweet enticements of the Elf King, increasingly frantic cries of the boy, and provides each with characteristic music.

Imitation, or imitative counterpoint, means that each of the musical lines __________

_______________ is the compositional technique used when incorporating many of the characteristics of the classical period into musical compositions

Vivaldi’s Spring from The Four Seasons is known as a _____________ which is when a soloist plays against the orchestra.

_____________ is a French opera by George Bizet but uses Spanish-styled influences like the habanera and flamenco to tell its story of a gypsy woman in Spain. 

______________ is monophonic, a capella (without instruments) music, sung in worship in Latin.

What is an ensemble of two to three instruments that accompany a vocalist or solo instrument?