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.


b

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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

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Discuss the various aspects of the Romanesque church.

What will be an ideal response?

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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

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The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus (7.1) had a _______cella

a. large b. triple c. single d. double

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