Question: What Italian word is similar to the French word "avoir"?
Answer: avere

Question: What French word is similar to the Italian word "essere"?
Answer: être

Question: What two languages have the possibility for significant mutual intelligibility?
Answer: Italian and Spanish

Question: Along with foods and family relationships, what sorts of words are similar in French and Italian?
Answer: body parts

Question: When forming compound tenses in Spanish, what auxiliary is no longer used?
Answer: sere

Question: What language could all Western languages be considered dialects of?
Answer: Interlingua

Question: Researchers at what organization study and develop Interlingua?
Answer: International Auxiliary Language Association

Question: What was the nationality of high school students who learned Interlingua in a notable linguistic experiment?
Answer: Swedish

Question: Along with Italian and Spanish, what language could Swedish Interlingua learners translate?
Answer: Portuguese

Question: Along with Standard Average European, from what concept was Interlingua derived?
Answer: the international scientific vocabulary

Question: What term is used to refer to the period from 1750 to 1820?
Answer: the Classical period

Question: What years are termed the Renaissance period?
Answer: 1400–1600

Question: What years are termed the Baroque period? 
Answer: 1600–1750

Question: From 1804-1910 was called what era?
Answer: Romantic

Question: Classical music is rooted in what kind of tradition? 
Answer: Western music

Question: Classical music is rooted the the traditions of what kind of music?
Answer: Western

Question: What is the period from 1750 to 1820 called?
Answer: the Classical period

Question: What time period is known at the common practice period?
Answer: between 1550 and 1900

Question: When was the Renaissance era?
Answer: 1400–1600

Question: When was the modern era?
Answer: 1890–1930

Question: How is European art music distinguished from non-European and popular music?
Answer: its system of staff notation

Question: What method is used by composers to prescribe to the performer the pitches, tempo, meter and rhythms for a piece of music?
Answer: Western staff notation

Question: What popular styles practice improvisation and ad libitum ornamentation?
Answer: jazz and blues

Question: Since it is written down, classical music can attain a high level of what? 
Answer: complexity

Question: How is European art music distinguished from many other musical forms?
Answer: its system of staff notation

Question: How long has the system of staff notation been in use?
Answer: since about the 16th century

Question: Jazz and blues use ad libitum and what other ornamentation? 
Answer: improvisation

Question: Classic music can a attain a high level of what?
Answer: complexity

Question: When did the term "classical music" appear? 
Answer: the early 19th century

Question: What period is referred to as a "golden age"?
Answer: the period from Johann Sebastian Bach to Beethoven

Question: What year is the earliest reference to 'classical music'?
Answer: 1836

Question: What book holds the earliest reference to 'classical music'?
Answer: Oxford English Dictionary

Question: What term did not appear until the early 19th century?
Answer: classical music

Question: What 'age' is the period from Johann Sebastian Bach to Beethoven referred to as?
Answer: golden age

Question: What year was the earliest reference to classical music?
Answer: 1836

Question: In what book was the earliest reference to classical music?
Answer: Oxford English Dictionary

Question: Who sang Medieval plainchant?
Answer: monks

Question: Avant-garde atonal compositions were written for what instrument?
Answer: solo piano

Question: What two characteristics of classical music can not be attributed to other genres?
Answer: use of a printed score and the performance of very complex instrumental works

Question: Through what period did the symphony not exist?
Answer: the entire classical music period

Question: What has become a defining feature of classical music?
Answer: the symphony ensemble

Question: What did not exist through the entire classical music period?
Answer: the symphony

Question: The use of a printed score and the performance of very complex instrumental works are characteristics of what?
Answer: classical music

Question: Who sang medieval plainchant?
Answer: monks

Question: J.S. Bach's fugues create a coherent harmonic logic that would be impossible for what other style of music?
Answer: live improvisation

Question: The score determines how various parts are coordinated, pitch, and what other detail?
Answer: rhythm

Question: What has allowed Classical musicians to perform music from many centuries ago?
Answer: written notation

Question: Who's fugues achieve a remarkable marriage of boldly distinctive melodic lines?
Answer: J.S. Bach's

Question: The score does not provide complete and exact instruction on how to do what?
Answer: perform a historical work

Question: In what era were many works designed for basso continuo accompaniment? 
Answer: the Baroque era

Question: Vibrato and glissando are possible on stringed, brass, woodwind and what other style instrument?
Answer: the human voice

Question: What are fermatas?
Answer: held notes

Question: Classical music in the 2000s has lost most of its tradition for musical what?
Answer: improvisation

Question: In the Baroque era, who would improvise preludes?
Answer: organ performers

Question: Who would improvise musical ornaments in the Baroque era?
Answer: instrumental performers

Question: Who was noted for his complex improvisations?
Answer: J.S. Bach

Question: What was Mozart noted for?
Answer: his ability to improvise melodies in different styles

Question: Instrument currently used in most classical music where invented before what period?
Answer: the mid-19th century

Question: What is the most widely known medium for classical music?
Answer: The symphony orchestra

Question: A symphony orchestra includes members of the string, woodwind, percussion and what other family of instruments?
Answer: brass

Question: What does a symphony orchestra have that is missing from a concert band?
Answer: a string section

Question: What practice has changed a great deal over the classical period?
Answer: vocal

Question: What was the medieval flute made from?
Answer: wood

Question: What was an early version of the fiddle called?
Answer: vielle

Question: What was an early version of the trombone called? 
Answer: sackbut

Question: Medieval instrument in Europe were commonly used how?
Answer: singly

Question: Loud, shrill, and outdoor instruments were referred to as 'haut', while quieter, more intimate instruments were referred to as what?
Answer: bas

Question: What genre was predominately Gregorian chant during the earlier medieval period?
Answer: liturgical

Question: What genre uses multiple independent vocal melodies?
Answer: Polyphonic vocal genres

Question: When did the Polyphonic vocal genre begin to develop?
Answer: during the high medieval era

Question: What word means using a single unaccompanied vocal melody line?
Answer: monophonic

Question: Many instruments originated during what era?
Answer: the Renaissance

Question: What has disappeared, then been recreated in order to perform music of the period?
Answer: authentic instruments

Question: Modern day instrument may be classified as brass, string, woodwind and what other classification?
Answer: percussion

Question: Brass instruments were traditionally played by profession guild members during what era?
Answer: the Renaissance

Question: Stringed instruments during the Renaissance included the viol, the lyre, the cittern, the lute and what other instrument?
Answer: the hurdy-gurdy

Question: The virginal is what type of instrument?
Answer: Keyboard instruments with strings