A variation of EXPLAIN is EXPLAIN THE DEGREE TO WHICH. In this case, you're giving reasons but focusing on strengths and limitations. Let's try it with freshman year: Explain the degree to which freshman year influences how well you do in high school. Let's break that down: How does freshman year influence the rest of high school? Would you say it has a great influence, a moderate influence, very little influence? Why? What are the things from freshman year that potentially have a great influence over the rest of high school? What are things from freshman year that don't have a great impact on the rest of high school? Take a stand (great, moderate, very little) and support it. Be sure to acknowledge a strength of the "other side" if you're taking the stance of "great" or "very little." *

Choose the description that best matches each word. write the correct letter in the blank. 1. ostinato a. large, extended composition for chorus and orchestra 2. atonality b. full orchestra 3. musicology c. festive, march-like opening to a play or “semi-opera” 4. concerto d. small group of solo instruments 5. minimalism e. music contrasting a full orchestra and solo instruments 6. art song f. music played under the action to influence the mood 7. strophic form g. a vocal song focusing on artistic expression 8. incidental h. each stanza of a poem is set to the same music 9. oratorio i. repeated musical pattern that provides unity to a piece 10. dissonance j. steady beat; simple harmonies; short, repetitive melody 11. concertino k. harsh, unstable sounding of pitches; harmonic tension 12. tutti l. all 12 tones of chromatic scale, no tonal center 13. entrada m. the historical and scientific study of music