What elements of music missing from rap music are also largely ignored in experimental twentieth century art music?

What will be an ideal response?


Rap music focuses on rhythm and the flow of words within the rhythmic backdrop. It rarely focuses on melody and harmony. Art music in the twentieth century began to move away from a long-held focus on melody and harmony as well, and began to focus on rhythm and timbre.

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The first radio station, KDKA, went on the air in 1920 in this city:

a. New York b. Chicago c. Pittsburgh d. Washington, D.C.

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In Pat Steir's The Brueghel Series: A Vanitas of Style, a series of sixty-four separate panels are held together by what category of line?

a) grid lines b) contour lines c) expressive lines d) calligraphic lines

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What is the source of the melody in this listening example?

A. Woody Guthrie B. a blackface minstrel song, “Old Dan Tucker” C. Stephen Foster D. George Frederick Root

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