Who developed the system of musique mesurée?
a) Emilio de' Cavalieri
b) Jean-Antoine de Baïf
c) Jean-Baptiste Lully
d) Giacopo Peri
b
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Foreign-language opera should probably not be sung in English for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
a. It is difficult to create translations that retain the sense of the original and mesh well with the composer's music. b. It is impossible to create an opera in English that can be easily understood because of all of the consonants and dialects. c. Words are sounds in their own right and the composer may have chosen a melodic phrase according to the characteristics of a particular word. d. English is a challenging language when it comes to rhyme.
Aspects of Latin American music has been an influence on jazz since the
a. birth of the blues. b. early 1900s. c. big band era. d. late 1960s.
Program music was invented during the romantic period.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Having received a degree in chemistry, this man made a living as a song plugger for W.C. Handy
Music Company.
a. George Gershwin b. Paul Whiteman c. Duke Ellington d. Fletcher Henderson