Which of the following terms best describes this selection's genre?

Which of the following was the most prominent type of secular song in sixteenth-century Germany?

a) Lied b) Chorale c) Air d) Villanesca

One of the innovations of ragtime was that:

a. it was the first African-American music devoid of sounding identifiable as a result of its ethnicity b. it was the first African-American music to be successfully incorporated into minstrelsy c. it was the first African-American music not to be disparaged as a result of its ethnic roots d. it was the first African-American music that looked on paper the way it sounded in performance