This is the word used when composition and performance occur simultaneously.
What is improvisation?
100
This is the highness or lowness of a sounc.
What is pitch?
100
This is the pitch to which most orchestral musicians tune their instruments.
What is 440Hz
100
This is the modern term for scholars who study the music of other cultures or who study multiple cultures comparatively.
What are ethnolmusicologists?
100
These are the five clasical families for Western instruments.
What are string, brass, woodwind, percussion and keyboard?
200
These four cities had famous postwar centers for electronic music.
What are Rome, Paris, Cologne, and New York City?
200
This is the name for the distance between a note and another with twice the frequency.
What is an octave?
200
Around this year equal temperament tuning began its dominance in Western music tradition.
What is 1750?
200
This is the name of the scale formed from the twelve pitches of equal temperament tuning in ascending order.
What is chromatic scale?
200
This allowed folk music to become a national heritage.
What is music notation?
300
Some of the most important follk music collectors came from this nation.
What is Germany?
300
This was the first person to conceive of olk songs as a national heritage.
Who is Johann Gottfried Herder?
300
This was the most common medium of domestic music making.
What is solo voice and piano?
300
This is the area of Russia where the folk song The Day was Breaking is from.
What is the Smolensk region?
300
This is the subject of The Day was Breaking.
What is recruitment into the army?
400
This is the length of the period of duty in the Russian Tsarist Army?
What is 25 years?
400
This is the term for a song that does not belong to any particular ritual, can often be sung by one person, and usually tells a story about unhappy love.
What is a lyrical song?
400
This is the best-known type of lyrical song.
What is protyazhnaya?
400
This Russian write created a memorable image of Russia featuring boundless expanses traversed by a horse-drawn coach and driven by a singing coachman.
Who is Nikolai Gogol?
400
This is the term for epic songs which narrated some otherwise long forgotten historical event or legend.
What are byliny?
500
This is the year when four-note chords came into frequent use in Western art music.
What is 1600?
500
This is where the Russian educated elite borrowed their nationalist ideas from.
What is German philosophers?
500
By the late eighteenth century, this was the language generally spoken among the urbanized nobility in Russia.
What is French?
500
This was the year that Napoleon invaded Russia.
What is 1812?
500
This man is considered the "Father of Russian music".