Analyze how primitivist composers such as Igor Stravinsky embedded "Primitive" elements in ultramodern settings

What will be an ideal response?


Rite of Spring - Stravinsky synthesized the ancient and the avant-garde

embedded the "primitive elements" in ultra modern settings

dissonant harmonies,

irregular patterns and rhythms

melodies without cadences,

densely layered textures

instrumentation that exploited new orchestral timbres (such as bassoon in high range at introduction)

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A. grand instrumental introductions. B. syncopated riffs. C. lush orchestrations. D. thin, open textures.

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A figure whose death embodies selflessness is

a. Socrates. b. Dorian Gray. c. Sylvia Plath. d. John Donne.

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You decide to watch a performance over the weekend, but before you do, you decide to do some research on the performance you wish to see. In your research, you learn that it was written by one author. You are most likely seeing

A. a play. B. a movie. C. a TV show. D. a musical.

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What modern invention influenced Brancusi’s art?

a)  airplanes b)  hot air balloons c)  submarines d)  locomotives

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