When an advertising agency makes a big-budget network TV commercial, it typically solicits two or three music houses to submit ideas for original music. Because only one gets selected for the job, the music houses are initially working on _____ because there is no assurance that they will get paid.

What will be an ideal response?


spec (or speculation)

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A. minimal ornamentation. B. wide naves. C. magnificent altarpieces. D. vast domes.

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Characteristic of the music of Debussy is

A. dramatic contrasts of loud and soft. B. the use of shifting harmonies. C. the fixed tonal center. D. All these answers are correct.

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