The manner of composing for instruments that exploits the strengths, special abilities, and color of a particular

instrument or voice while avoiding its weaknesses is known as:



a. idiomatic writing
b. Doctrine of Affections
c. ostinato
d. melodic sequence
e. recitative


ANSWER: a

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