Music History Test

Finals time. This means lots of studying and lots of time spent in a room filling in answers that I probably don't care about. Right now, I'm studying for music history. i remember back when I was in choir my choral teacher used to tell me about "drop the needle" tests where a random part of a piece would be played and the students had to identify what part of the piece. I thought that I would hopefully never have to do it. Turns out, I do. We have about 18 tracks that we pretty much better have fully memorized because he will play like 30 seconds of it and we have to identify the composer and stylistic features from that. It seems easy, except they are all pieces you probably have never heard of before. For example, Il blanco E Dolce Cigno by Arcadelt. I bet you have not heard that one before. Its not fun, but we got to do it. Wish me luck.