What is one reason that many Melanesian masks and carvings include representations of birds?
a) Birds acted as guides or messengers.
b) Winged gods were sacred.
c) Birds were worshipped. d) Birds were valuable for their feathers.
a) Birds acted as guides or messengers.
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Identify the incorrect statement about Renaissance musical style
a. melody mainly consists of stepwise motion within a moderately narrow range b. the triad, a consonant chord, becomes the basic building block of harmony c. exciting, driving, energized rhythms propel music forward with vigor d. the predominant sound remains that of unaccompanied vocal music, whether for soloists or for choir e. polyphony for four or five vocal lines is the dominant texture, though occasional passages of chordal homophony are inserted for variety
Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase was compared to ________ by a critic.
a. the flight of birds b. an explosion in a shingle factory c. the ticking of a clock d. a robot e. a filmstrip
Goya's Third of May, 1808 represents _____
a. the French suppression of a Spanish revolt b. the peasant revolt c. the American Civil War d. an allegory of the French Revolution
Which of the following is a drawback of performing foreign-language operas in English?
a) It is difficult to create translations that retain the sense of the original language and mesh well with the music. b) Sung English is impossible to understand because of all of the consonants and dialects. c) Audiences have no desire to hear operas in English. d) English has too many options when it comes to rhyming.