What is a leitmotive?
a. The use of striking chord shifts, musical repetition, controlled dissonance,and abrupt textural changes to highlight the meaning of the text
b. A musical motive that symbolizes a character of dramatic entity.
c. An operatic passage largely given in recitative and often leading to an aria orduet.
d. A group of musicians that supported the outlook of Wagner and Liszt.
b
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A. conceptual art B. anonymity C. repetition D. political content
Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project is an example of
site-specific art. the subtractive process. the lost-wax process. high-relief sculpture.
The feminist approach rests on the assumption that art reflects the attitudes of a culture but has little capacity to influence those attitudes.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which of following was another name for "free jazz"?
a) Outside jazz b) Soul jazz c) Riff jazz d) Cool jazz