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Light French opera with spoken dialogue is called

A piece of program music that is a fairly short, single-movement work for concert-hall performance is called:

Which composer invented the symphonic or tone poem?

Which violin soloist arrived on the concert stage in 1820 that was so good it was said he had sold his soul to the devil to play so well? 

Instrumental descriptive music that is associated with a nonmusical idea is called?

In Symphonie Fantastique, Berlioz uses this term for a musical theme that appears in all five movements called:

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is an example of

Who wrote the Four Seasons?

A dramatic work for soloists, chorus and orchestra, long, and not staged is

The group of musicians and scholars who “invented” opera while trying to recreate the spirit of Greek drama were the