Opera was the result of __________
a) someone uncovering a copy of Hildegard von Bingen's morality plays
b) a small group of philosophers, musicians, and poets who met in Florence to consider reviving the ancient Greek synthesis of music and drama
c) a group of housewives who overheard their children acting out stories with music and shared this practice with their composer husbands
d) composers adapting the formal structure of the Mass to secular chamber music.
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Compositions that place such elements as pitch, timbre, rhythm, and dynamics
in a fixed order is called:
a. twelve-tone composition b. Expressionism c. serial music d. atonal music e. chance music
The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus (7.1) had a _______cella
a. large b. triple c. single d. double
Discuss the various aspects of the Romanesque church.
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What artistic device does Jacques-Louis David use in Oath of the Horatii to contrast the emotional reaction of the women to the men?
a) the women’s soft forms and curving lines b) the sculptural treatment of the women’s garments c) the women’s role as the painting’s focal point d) the repetition of the women’s forms to suggest unity