A friend of yours tells you that writing a play involves word choices that are often all of the following. You agree with your friend in all but one of the areas. You disagree that word choice in scripts:
A. is more intense than everyday speech
B. is more compressed than everyday speech
C. is sometimes the same as everyday speech
D. is more selective than everyday speech
C.
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Which purpose for secular music did not exist during the Middle Ages?
A) battle songs for knights B) songs to be sung around the hearth and in the fields C) for sale to a mass market D) songs and dances for nobles
Early opera composers chose as their subject the most famous musical story of all:
A) The Legend of Zelda B) The Legend of Hogwarts C) The Legend of Robert Johnson D) The Legend of Orpheus and Eurydice E) The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde
One of Antoine Watteau's best-known works, the Return from Cythera (fig. 19.25), is in the __________ style
A. Baroque B. Rococo C. Renaissance D. Mannerist E. none of the above
In describing Beethoven's symphonies, which statement applies?
A) His later symphonies are longer. B) Changes in tempo within a movement are more frequent than in previous Classical period works. C) Music occasionally moves from one movement to the next without the usual pause. D) all of the above