The texture heard in this example is:

This is an example of opera.

This is an example of opera.

The instrument that plays for the first 10 seconds of this video is the:  

The painting below is most likely representative of which early modernist artistic movement, which presented blurry and hazy (rather than realistic) representations of a scene?

Mexican modernist composer Silvestre Rivueltas was inspired by which type of music? 

The instrument that plays for the first 10 seconds of this video is the:  

Mariachi ensembles primarily feature wind instruments and a lot of percussion.

Balance Order Clarity Form was so important (hooray for sonata-allegro form)! Absolute music Lots of symphonies, string quartets, and sonatas Which historical era is represented?

Modernist composers had an oddly conservative approach to rhythm, using mostly regular rhythms, with little experimentation.