Neoclassicism was
a. an attempt to retain the characteristics of nineteenth-century music.
b. a way to adapt classical compositions and make them new by adding jazz chords and non-traditional rhythms and melodies.
c. an attempt to incorporate eighteenth-century styles into a contemporary idiom.
d. a movement that sought to revive the music of the ancient Greeks.
C
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