Who was the principal librettist of opera seria during the eighteenth century?
A) Pietro Metastasio
B) Voltaire
C) Lorenzo da Ponte
D) Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais
A
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Realists and naturalists wrote mostly about contemporary subjects and social conditions, creating plays: a. considered little better than garbage by conservative critics
b. which gave hope and inspiration. c. None of the available choices. d. depicted conditions which always had happy endings.
The Greek scales were called
A. tonic. B. modes. C. diatonic. D. chords.
To provide musical entertainments for state dinners, balls, and operatic performances, Louis established a
A. national chorus. B. permanent orchestra. C. guild of musicians. D. new system of arranging written music.
The merging of formerly distinct styles of music into new forms of expression is called
A. virtual communitas. B. diaspora. C. musical syncretism. D. culture.