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String players asked to strike the strings with their bow stick instead of draw the bow across the strings with the hair (col legno In which musical era?

The symbolist poet who wrote the poem “L’aprés midi d’un faun” (“The Afternoon of a faun”) was…

The concept of music “returning to home base” or to a central tone is referred to as

Which musical form dominated in the classical period, especially in the first (and last)               movements of classical symphonies?

Chromatic harmony is

In Mozart’s Symphony #40, movement 1, he develops Theme 1 by writing a fugato.

A baroque musical composition usually expresses             within the same movement

The text, or book, of a musical dramatic work is called the

The text, or book, of a musical dramatic work is called the

The Erlking, in Schubert’s song of that name, is a romantic personification of