Tchaikovsky’s ballet, The Nutcracker, is associated with this holiday.

This describes the purpose of twelve-tone music.

In the 1930s this composer made a deliberate appeal to ordinary citizens by rejecting radical dissonance and atonality, working instead on a series of projects based on rural and Western American ideas. The resulting musical style is characterized by the use of folk songs and popular elements, tonal harmony, and a clear, luminous orchestration.

Which genre is a polyphonic composition for choir or larger chorus that sets a religious, sacred, or solemn text and is often sung a cappella? 

Thirteenth-century musicians in France devised this to specify musical rhythm as well as pitch.

The __________ has horizontal lines and spaces from which musicians read musical notation.

Identify the term used in music notation to indicate the absence of sound.

This composer wrote medieval chansons about love. 

This Postmodernist composer is chiefly known for his music for film; indeed, so successful are his scores that only Walt Disney has received more Academy Award nominations. His style is best described as “romantically modern.” 

Which answer best describes a “trill”?