Oratorios are almost always sung in Latin.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)


False

Some churches in Rome had oratorios with Latin texts, but oratorios were mostly written in the vernacular of the composer's country so that the citizens could easily understand them. 

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The predominant rhythm in this listening example can most accurately be described as:

A. free. B. steady alternating with free rhythmic passages. C. unaccented. D. syncopation.

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Kings of Leon's music combines garage rock and Southern rock influences.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Hopi villages seem to grow directly out of the mesa top, the building materials and shapes suggesting continuity with the living rock; this is often called:

a. an organic mode of building. b. a harmonic stratum. c. a sandwich design. d. all of these. e. none of these.

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The Apollo from Veii was though to have been originally placed:

a. on a temple roof as part of a reenactment of a mythological story b. in a cemetery as a grace marker c. in a city square as a commemoration d. in a government building as a guiding spirit

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