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William Grant Still’s “A Black Pierrot” is based on the poetry of __________.

Throughout the Classical Era, artists in every field looked to __________ as a model.

In Einstein on the Beach, a great deal of the text is __________.

What is the general purpose of non-diegetic music in films?

The most important new structural innovation of the Classical Era (used in Mozart’s Symphony no. 40) was the development of __________.

As a modern musical retelling of Romeo and Juliet, Bernstein’s West Side Story recasts the feuding families as __________.

Berlioz’s sequel to Symphonie fantastique represents his __________.

Someone pretends to be your friend but speaks ill of you behind your back.  According to hedonism, what is happening?

Perhaps the single most remarkable aspect of music in the twentieth century is that for the first time, _______________________.  

Debussy’s relationship to the artistic movement known as ________ helps give his music the quality of “suggesting rather than stating.”